Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_grouped / Disability / Ethnicity

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Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Disability Ethnicity Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 AA/AO Declared disabled Asian 1035 895 25520 24270
In post 2024 AA/AO Declared disabled Black 540 485 27350 27000
In post 2024 AA/AO Declared disabled Mixed 400 360 26130 24280
In post 2024 AA/AO Declared disabled Other ethnicity 75 70 26270 24800
In post 2024 AA/AO Declared disabled Undeclared 570 500 25930 24270
In post 2024 AA/AO Declared disabled Unknown 460 405 25960 24560
In post 2024 AA/AO Declared disabled White 14040 12310 25570 24270
In post 2024 AA/AO Declared non-disabled Asian 7210 6445 25800 24280
In post 2024 AA/AO Declared non-disabled Black 3840 3620 28670 27220
In post 2024 AA/AO Declared non-disabled Mixed 1505 1400 27630 25630
In post 2024 AA/AO Declared non-disabled Other ethnicity 465 435 27630 26630
In post 2024 AA/AO Declared non-disabled Undeclared 1800 1590 25880 24270
In post 2024 AA/AO Declared non-disabled Unknown 1745 1510 25760 24280
In post 2024 AA/AO Declared non-disabled White 62075 56075 26610 24280
In post 2024 AA/AO Undeclared Asian 375 325 25580 24280
In post 2024 AA/AO Undeclared Black 255 230 29720 28800
In post 2024 AA/AO Undeclared Mixed 130 115 27980 25190
In post 2024 AA/AO Undeclared Other ethnicity 40 35 30320 30830
In post 2024 AA/AO Undeclared Undeclared 1325 1210 26580 24280
In post 2024 AA/AO Undeclared Unknown 330 290 28170 26750
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Notes: Summary figures are suppressed when information relates to less than 5 civil servants for FTE or Headcount, and less than 10 civil servants for median and mean salary (shown as [c]). Zero responses and salaries for less than 30 civil servants have been suppressed for GPDR special category data. FTE figures are not shown for entrants or leavers due to data quality concerns for these groups. Figures are rounded to the nearest 5, or £10 as appropriate.

Data source: All figures are aggregated from the Cabinet Office Annual Civil Service Employment Survey collection.

Version: Generated on 2024-07-24

Data column Description
Status Employment status of the civil servants.
In post - includes staff that were in post on the reference date (31 March).
New entrant CS - includes new entrants to the Civil Service over the year (1 April to 31 March).
Leaver CS - includes leavers from the Civil Service over the year (1 April to 31 March). This includes employees who have an Unknown leaving cause.
Leaver Dept. - includes leavers from the department over the year (1 April to 31 March), who did not leave the Civil Service.
Four organisations do not report when their employees first entered the Civil Service and so entrants data for these organisations is not available . These are as follows: Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (excl. agencies), Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office Services, Scottish Forestry and Forest and Land Scotland. A further three organisations also could not provide entrants data in 2021. These are as follows: Department for International Development, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (excl. agencies) and Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
Year Year of data collection (as at 31 March).
Responsibility_level_grouped With the exception of the centrally managed Senior Civil Service, government departments have delegated pay and grading. For statistical purposes departments are asked to map their grades to a common framework by responsibility level.
This table shows staff in their substantive responsibility level unless on temporary promotion in which case staff are recorded at the higher responsibility level.
Responsibility_level_grouped combines the mapped grades into five broad responsibility levels. This is the headline measure for responsibility level for the Civil Service and is consistent with the published National Statistics.
Ethnicity Self reported ethnicity. "Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their ethnicity and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their ethnicity.
Disability Self reported disability.
"Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their disability status and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their disability status.
Headcount Total number of civil servants (rounded to nearest 5).
FTE Total full-time equivalent (FTE) employment numbers (rounded to nearest 5).
FTE figures are not shown for entrants or leavers due to data quality concerns for these groups.
Mean_salary Average salary (mean, rounded to nearest £10). For part-time employees, salaries represent the full-time equivalent earnings, while for full-time employees they are the actual annual gross salaries.
These figures should be interpreted with caution when the total number of employees in a group is small, as they will tend to show more variability than larger groups (i.e. may be much higher or lower than can be explained by the data shown).
Median_salary Median salary (rounded to nearest £10). For part-time employees, salaries represent the full-time equivalent earnings, while for full-time employees they are the actual annual gross salaries.
These figures should be interpreted with caution when the total number of employees in a group is small, as they will tend to show more variability than larger groups (i.e. may be much higher or lower than can be explained by the data shown).