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  • Range of typical starting salaries: £15,000 - £27,500.
  • Range of typical salaries for middle management roles: £29,000 - £42,500.
  • Salaries vary according to department and the location of the post. Posts in London often command a higher salary.
  • Pay for senior civil servants depends on job performance and salary bands set by the government.
  • Benefits can include flexi-time, childcare vouchers, support towards professional qualifications, gym membership and a performance-related bonus scheme.
  • Regular office working hours apply, often with extra hours available. Each individual department functions quite differently, with some expecting longer hours. Shift or weekend work may be required in some departments.
  • Typically, holiday entitlement is around 25 days a year.
  • Much of the work is office-based.
  • Part-time work is available (one in five civil servants work part time). A job-share notice board has been introduced for civil servants hoping to find a job-share partner.
  • Career breaks depend on the department. It may be necessary to negotiate the break and ensure that skills are maintained at the appropriate level during the break.
  • Men and women are more or less equally represented in this role.
  • Jobs are available throughout the UK. 70% of civil servants work outside London and the South East (Civil Service Statistics, Office for National Statistics (ONS)).
  • The Civil Service is committed to increasing diversity in its workforce and offers summer diversity internships. See the Civil Service Summer Diversity Internships  website for details.
  • Dress code depends on the department and whether the role is customer-facing. Generally, it is smart/professional but smart/casual may be acceptable for some work.
  • The role can be stressful at times. Some jobs require regularly working to tight deadlines, dealing with complaints or difficult queries or undergoing regular changes to systems or ways of working.
  • Travel within a working day features in some roles, for example to attend meetings or conduct site visits.
  • Overseas work or travel may be a feature of some jobs, for example, with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) , the Ministry of Defence (MoD)  and the Department for International Development (DFID) .
 
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Written by AGCAS editors
Date: 
July 2011
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