Workforce Insight Profile 2023

• 3,735 people are employed by Portsmouth City Council, with ‘Housing, Neighbourhood and Building Services’ (the largest directorate) accounting for 25% of staff
• The number of employees, filled positions and full-time equivalent roles have gradually decreased since peaking in 2021
• The profile of staff has remained consistent in recent years in terms of age, gender and ethnic origin
• Consistently the vast majority of staff live in close proximity to Portsmouth; 97% within PO or SO postal districts in 2023
• Almost two thirds of staff are female (65%) – they continue to dominate part-time roles and are more prevalent in all directorates except Portsmouth International Port where 84% of staff are male
• The council employs a good spread of people from across all age groups and in every directorate, the youngest and oldest employees continue to be most likely to be in lower pay bands
• 6% of staff are from ethnic minority groups, this year 7% of males are from ethnic minority groups (up 1% from 2022)
• There has been a gradual year-on-year increase since 2019 in the proportion of staff with no religion, and a year-on-year decrease in the proportion of staff who are Christian. In 2023 Christianity is still the most prevalent religion (41%), whilst 52% have no religion
• Just over a third of staff work part-time (35%), this is consistent with 2022 after increasing year-on-year from 2019-2022. Adult Services has the highest proportion of part-time staff – almost half of all staff here are females working part-time
• The gender pay gap is closing, males earn on average 3.6% more than females annually, compared to 3.9% last year
• Employee turnover has dropped to 15% after increasing by 6 percentage points to 17% in 2022 – career development in another job remains the main reason staff leave PCC (34%), followed by retirement (20%)

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, pay band, and postcode (more so in recent years)
• The proportion of staff on which PCC holds ethnic origin and religion information on has increased since 2021
• The switch to data being held on Fusion in 2021 has resulted in a loss of information on employee disability (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 and pay band, 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, and postcode, 82% for ethnic origin, 51% for religion, and 5% for disability

In 2023, Portsmouth City Council has information on 100% of employees for total employees, directorate, gender, age, pay band, and postcode, 82% for ethnic origin, 54% for religion, and 11% for disability

Base: (Dec) 2019 (3,638) | 2020 (3,796) | 2021 (3,884) | 2022 (3,797) | 2023 (3,735)