FOI/202500459823 · FOI · unclear
Scottish Government employee salary distribution: FOI release
Information requested
Aggregated data on the salary distribution of employees of the Scottish Government, specifically for:
1. The number of employees within salary bands of £5,000 increments (e.g., £15,000–£19,999, £20,000–£24,999, etc.) up to the highest salary band used within the Scottish Government.
2. Please also include the mean and median salary within each band.
Response
All of the information provided below is in relation to Scottish Government Core Directorates and is a snapshot as at December 2024 using data from the most recent official publication of the Scottish Government's workforce statistics.
Salary band in £ Number of employees Mean in £ Median in £ 25,000 to 29,999 413 28,177 28,131 30,000 to 34,999 1337 33,225 33,223 35,000 to 39,999 995 38,012 37,900 40,000 to 44,999 921 41,874 41,834 45,000 to 49,999 1141 47,012 46,773 50,000 to 54,999 1328 54,387 54,419 55,000 to 59,999 599 58,969 59,883 60,000 to 64,999 226 64,157 64,229 65,000 to 69,999 1 [c] [c] 70,000 to 74,999 1168 71,364 71,243 75,000 to 79,999 279 77,501 76,321 80,000 to 84,999 7 82,461 81,764 85,000 to 89,999 666 85,395 85,130 90,000 to 94,999 185 93,499 94,383 95,000 to 99,999 8 95,912 95,710 105,000 to 109,999 15 108,256 108,393 110,000 to 114,999 19 112,263 112,326 115,000 to 119,999 26 116,728 117,329 120,000 to 124,999 3 [c] [c] 135,000 to 139,999 3 [c] [c] 140,000 to 144,999 3 [c] [c] 145,000 to 149,999 1 [c] [c] 150,000 to 154,999 2 [c] [c] 165,000 to 169,999 1 [c] [c] 190,000 to 194,999 1 [c] [c] 205,000 to 209,999 1 [c] [c]
The figure for the mean and median has been suppressed to protect confidential information where it relates to a small number of staff or where additional suppression has been required to prevent calculation of a figure suppressed for that reason, and is represented by [c] in the table.
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