Question follow-through · 39584

Civil Servants: Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average salary cost of a civil servant was in each year between 2009 and 2024.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
19 Mar 2025
Target answer date
24 Mar 2025
Answer
24 Mar 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average salary cost of a civil servant was in each year between 2009 and 2024.

  2. 24 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 24 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    Information on both the mean and median salary of civil servants is published annually as part of Civil Service Statistics. The annual publications from 2006 to 2024 with accompanying data tables containing mean and median salary measures can be found at ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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