Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

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

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Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Ethnicity Age Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 AA/AO Asian 16-19 115 110 24710 24280
In post 2024 AA/AO Asian 20-29 2415 2325 25560 24280
In post 2024 AA/AO Asian 30-39 2095 1885 25870 24280
In post 2024 AA/AO Asian 40-49 2175 1840 25670 24280
In post 2024 AA/AO Asian 50-59 1710 1515 25760 24280
In post 2024 AA/AO Asian 60-64 585 495 26160 26140
In post 2024 AA/AO Asian 65+ 430 335 26690 27000
In post 2024 AA/AO Asian Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 AA/AO Black 16-19 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2024 AA/AO Black 20-29 765 750 28620 27220
In post 2024 AA/AO Black 30-39 1095 1040 29050 27220
In post 2024 AA/AO Black 40-49 1080 1005 28930 27220
In post 2024 AA/AO Black 50-59 1255 1170 27970 27000
In post 2024 AA/AO Black 60-64 565 515 27510 27000
In post 2024 AA/AO Black 65+ 285 240 27420 27120
In post 2024 AA/AO Black Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 AA/AO Mixed 16-19 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2024 AA/AO Mixed 20-29 710 690 27530 25630
In post 2024 AA/AO Mixed 30-39 530 480 27890 25060
In post 2024 AA/AO Mixed 40-49 395 360 27190 24800
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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.
Age Age in 10 year bands. Age is calculated as at the reference date in each year (31st March), so entrants or leavers may have been up to one year younger at the date of exit or entry.
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).