Workforce Insight Profile 2022

• 3,797 people are employed by Portsmouth City Council, with ‘Housing, Neighbourhood and Building Services’ (the largest directorate) accounting for 24% of staff
• In 2022 the number of employees, filled positions and full-time equivalent roles have decreased for the first time in recent years
• The profile of staff has remained consistent in recent years in terms of age, gender and ethnic origin
• The vast majority of staff live in close proximity to Portsmouth; 97% within PO or SO postal districts
• Almost two thirds of staff are female (65%) – they dominate part-time roles and are more prevalent in all directorates except Portsmouth International Port where 87% of staff are male
• The council employs a good spread of people from across all age groups, the youngest and oldest employees are most likely to be working in lower pay bands
• 6% of staff are from ethnic minority groups – this is consistent regardless of gender
• There has been a gradual increase in the proportion of staff with no religion and decrease in the proportion of staff who are Christian. In 2022 Christianity is still the most prevalent religion (43%), whilst 48% have no religion
• Just over a third of staff work part-time (35%), this has declined gradually year-on-year from 40% in 2019
• The gender gap is closing, males earn on average 3.9% more than females annually in 2022, compared to 5.7% more in 2021
• The council’s employee turnover increased 6 percentage points to 17% in 2022 – career development in another job remains the main reason staff leave PCC

The aim of this report is to provide an annual summary of the profile of the workforce for Portsmouth City Council. The two main aims are:

• To support the Council’s commitment to equality and diversity
• To fulfil the statutory requirement to publish workforce equality data under the Equality Act 2010.

The findings of this report are based on analysis of Portsmouth City Council employee data. All data preceding 1st July 2021 is based on employee data held on EBS Oracle whilst all subsequent data is from employee data held on Fusion.

All information in this report is based on employee data from 1st December for the appropriate year unless otherwise stated. The data does not include agency staff.

Base sizes

Unless otherwise stated, the reported base always refers to the number of employees. Portsmouth City Council does not hold complete data on every employee (either because the question was not asked at enrolment or due to employees opting out of providing specific pieces of personal data), therefore the base sizes vary from question to question.

• Portsmouth City Council consistently holds information on directorate, gender, age, and pay band
• The proportion of staff on which PCC holds ethnic origin and religion information on increased in 2021 and again in 2022
• The switch to data being held on Fusion in 2021 has resulted in a loss of employee disability information (this data is now self-service) and length of service (the glitch is still under review)

This chart shows that:
In 2019, Portsmouth City Council had information on 100% of employees for total employees, directorate, gender, age, and length of service, 99% for pay band, 96% for postcode, 78% for ethnic origin, 62% for disability, and 34% for religion
In 2020, Portsmouth City Council had information on 100% of employees for total employees, directorate, gender, age, and length of service, 99% for pay band, 96% for postcode, 75% for ethnic origin, 59% for disability, and 33% for religion
In 2021, Portsmouth City Council has information on 100% of employees for total employees, directorate, gender, age, pay band, and length of service, 80% for ethnic origin, 78% for postcode, 5% for disability, and 47% for religion
In 2022, Portsmouth City Council has information on 100% of employees for total employees, directorate, gender, age, pay band, postcode, and length of service, 82% for ethnic origin, 51% for religion, and 5% for disability

Base: (Dec) 2019 (3,638) | 2020 (3,796) | 2021 (3,884) | 2022 (3,797)