Where a decade of States of Guernsey hiring went
States of Guernsey core-government staff by pay group, average FTE, 2016 vs 2025: up 880 posts, mostly medical staff.
Read this with the chart: Core government is a scope, not a job type. This is the accounts' own staff-by-pay-group table, not the Pay Costs & FTE appendix behind the payroll series, so it totals 4,418 to 5,298 rather than 4,408 to 5,230. Both are right on their own basis and the two totals should never be quoted together. Controlled entities (Guernsey Electricity, Aurigny, Guernsey Post and the trading entities, 1,477 FTE in 2025) are excluded from both years so the same population is counted. The 2025 accounts aggregate groups the 2016 accounts listed separately - police, prison, fire and border officers became one uniformed line - so the grouping of the 2016 rows is ours, not the accounts'.
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- States of Guernsey Accounts 2025, note 6c "Staff Information by Pay Group" (Average FTE)
- States of Guernsey Accounts 2016, note 7 "Staff information by pay group" (Average FTE)
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