C2 £20821 £28702
E1 £13024 £19817
Here’s a thought. The grade (C2) who, as a project manager, may be responsible for £100M projects and the airworthiness of your kit, or manage 200 staff in a workshop (read the Treasury approved Grade descriptions), can earn the grand sum of £1004 per annum more than the grade (E1) who, typically, may do the office filing.
The real problem, and what provokes some of the more juvenile comments about the CS, is that an increasing number are promoted before demonstrating the basic competences required of the previous 2 or 3 grades. There is a huge spread of competence across any given Grade; something that, in my experience, does not happen in the Services. So, I can name C2s who have managed both £100M projects and 200 staff, but I can also name far more senior management in DPA who would s*** themselves at the thought of such responsibility.