Public sector employment in Scotland: statistics for fourth quarter 2019

4. Reserved Public Sector Employment in Scotland; Headcount (see Table 4)

The number of people employed in the reserved public sector in December 2019 was 56,300, 1,440 (2.6%) higher than in December 2018.

The reserved public sector employment includes:

• Reserved Civil Service (see section 5);
• Armed Forces;
• Other Public Sector (which covers Public Sector Financial Institutions, Non-Departmental Bodies and Other Bodies).

Chart 5 shows the size of each group in the reserved public sector as at December 2019.

Source: Public Sector Employment in Scotland, Quarter 4 2019

Note: Totals may not equal the sum of the individual parts due to rounding.

The increase in the overall headcount in the reserved public sector was due to:

• Employment levels for Other Public Sector^[5] increasing by 1,990 (9.8%) from 20,300 in December 2018 to 22,300 in December 2019;

while:

• Employment levels for the Reserved Civil Service fell by 550
  (2.2%) to 24,300;
• Employment levels for the Armed Forces were unchanged at 9,700.