Public Sector Employment in Scotland Statistics for 4th Quarter 2022

Statistics based on administrative records and surveys of individual public sector bodies carried out by the Scottish Government and the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This is a snapshot of employment as at December 2022.


Table 2: Public sector employment by devolved and reserved sector; Scotland, Headcount and Full-time equivalent [note 1]

This worksheet contains one table. Some cells refer to notes which can be found under the table. When notes are mentioned the note marker is presented in square brackets.

Some shorthand may have been used in the spreadsheet, r - revision

Not Seasonally Adjusted

Quarter revisions [note 4] Total Public Sector: Headcount Devolved Public Sector: Headcount [note 2] Reserved Public Sector: Headcount [note 3] Total Public Sector: Full-time Equivalent Devolved Public Sector: Full-time Equivalent [note 2] Reserved Public Sector: Full-time Equivalent [note 3]
Q4 1999 551,100 474,300 76,700 460,200 387,100 73,100
Q4 2016 r 557,800 501,200 56,600 477,800 424,600 53,200
Q4 2017 r 557,700 502,000 55,700 479,400 427,000 52,400
Q4 2018 r 550,800 496,000 54,800 471,600 419,900 51,600
Q4 2019 r 560,500 504,200 56,300 480,100 427,100 53,000
Q4 2020 r 572,600 518,000 54,600 493,400 441,900 51,500
Q4 2021 r 588,600 533,300 55,200 508,400 456,100 52,300
Q4 2022 594,500 538,700 55,800 513,400 460,400 53,000
Change on year to Q4 2022 5,960 5,380 590 5,070 4,340 730
% change on year Q4 2022 1.0% 1.0% 1.1% 1.0% 1.0% 1.4%

Notes:

Note 1: Employment figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred. Change on year rounded to the nearest ten. Percentages are based on unrounded figures. Totals may not equal the sum of individual parts due to rounding.

Note 2: Devolved Public Sector consists of the following staff groups: Civil Service, Other Public Bodies, NHS, Further Education Colleges, Local Government and Public Corporations (as shown in Table 3).

Note 3: Reserved Public Sector consists of the following staff groups: Civil Service, Armed Forces, Other Public Sector (as shown in Table 4)

Note 4: There have been revisions to this data, in particular revisions in Local Government figures, changing the headcounts for the Total Devolved Public Sector and the Total Public Sector columns

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