Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_grouped / Ethnicity

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Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Ethnicity Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 AA/AO Asian 9525 8505 25760 24280
In post 2024 AA/AO Black 5060 4735 28420 27010
In post 2024 AA/AO Mixed 2250 2085 27220 24890
In post 2024 AA/AO Other ethnicity 640 595 27480 26190
In post 2024 AA/AO Undeclared 4025 3605 26180 24280
In post 2024 AA/AO Unknown 25415 23710 26280 24800
In post 2024 AA/AO White 88725 79800 26430 24280
In post 2024 EO Asian 12130 11350 30780 29500
In post 2024 EO Black 5975 5680 31790 32160
In post 2024 EO Mixed 2520 2375 30970 29500
In post 2024 EO Other ethnicity 865 820 31310 30720
In post 2024 EO Undeclared 5105 4660 31100 29500
In post 2024 EO Unknown 21515 20660 30500 29500
In post 2024 EO White 88310 81415 30460 29500
In post 2024 G6/G7 Asian 4785 4670 62910 60480
In post 2024 G6/G7 Black 1860 1835 62160 60000
In post 2024 G6/G7 Mixed 1775 1720 62930 60750
In post 2024 G6/G7 Other ethnicity 620 605 63080 60020
In post 2024 G6/G7 Undeclared 2925 2820 64180 61750
In post 2024 G6/G7 Unknown 9570 9295 63190 60720
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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.
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).