Department of Human Resources and Skills Development
What Department of Human Resources and Skills Development spent in fiscal year 2011-12: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
These are the figures of Department of Human Resources and Skills Development, which became Employment and Social Development Canada on December 12, 2013.
Reports through Human Resources and Skills Development; the overview shows it in that ministry.
What Employment and Social Development Canada does
Established in 2005, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) is a federal department responsible for supporting Canadians through social programs and workforce development. It administers key programs such as Employment Insurance (EI), the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), Old Age Security (OAS), and skills training initiatives, and it oversees Service Canada, which delivers government services directly to the public.
The department's spending is sensitive to economic conditions and major legislation. Federal income-support programs drove a sharp, temporary increase during the COVID-19 pandemic before spending returned to lower levels in the years that followed.
Spending, 2011-12
Net spending, 2011-12
$46B
spent by Department of Human Resources and Skills Development, less revenues it kept
Share, 2011-12
20.1%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Department of Human Resources and Skills Development spend its budget in 2011-12?
By standard object. Revenues it kept are negative and netted against its spending.
Spending by standard object, 2011-12
Transfer payments
Personnel
Professional and special services
Other subsidies and payments
Rentals
Transportation and communications
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Repair and maintenance
Information
Utilities, materials and supplies
External revenues
Internal revenues
$44.5B
$2.1B
$610M
$304M
$202M
$108M
$33.4M
$24.1M
$20.8M
$10.1M
-$408M
-$1.53B
Total: $46B.
Spending by program, 2011-12
The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $46B in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.
$38.3B
$2.87B
$2.28B
$1.68B
$353M
$185M
$156M
$146M
Workforce, 2011-12
Full-time equivalents
22,832
the actual FTEs of its programs, as GC InfoBase reports them
Personnel spending
$2.1B
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
Personnel spending per FTE
$92K
personnel spending divided by full-time equivalents
A full-time equivalent is a measure of employment, not a headcount: two half-time employees are one FTE. Personnel spending includes benefits and pension contributions, so per FTE it is not an average salary.
Contracts of $10,000 and under
Contracts this small are not published one by one: Treasury Board publishes each organization's totals, by calendar year, for contracts of $10,000 and under (their original value and their amendments) and for acquisition card purchases. They are the value of contracts entered into, not what was paid in a fiscal year, so they are not part of the net expenditure above, and the years are calendar years.
| Calendar year | Goods | Services | Construction | Acquisition cards | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $490,399 | $3,144,684 | $0 | $20,360,003 | $23,995,086 |
| 2024 | $472,564 | $2,598,563 | $0 | $25,443,709 | $28,514,836 |
| 2023 | $397,244 | $2,170,248 | $0 | $20,637,109 | $23,204,602 |
| 2022 | $444,852 | $1,286,079 | $0 | $28,889,477 | $30,620,408 |
| 2021 | $336,265 | $1,973,389 | $0 | $29,054,464 | $31,364,118 |
| 2020 | $503,772 | $1,659,170 | $0 | $30,566,424 | $32,729,365 |
| 2019 | $378,077 | $1,376,486 | $172 | $31,096,716 | $32,851,451 |
| 2018 | $187,890 | $1,488,269 | $2,968 | $34,885,027 | $36,564,153 |
| 2017 | $188,672 | $1,755,489 | $29,258 | $32,919,130 | $34,892,549 |
Employment and Social Development Canada’s share of federal net spending
Each year is the organization that existed that year:
- Employment and Social Development Canada, 2013-14 to 2025-26
- Department of Human Resources and Skills Development, 2003-04 to 2012-13
Other organizations in Human Resources and Skills Development
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2012, Volume II: Ministerial expenditures by standard object (Table 3)
- GC InfoBase – Federal Programs – Actual and Planned Spending (programs_spending.csv)
- GC InfoBase – Federal Programs – Actual and Planned Employees (programs_ftes.csv)
- Proactive Publication - Contracts: Aggregated Total - Contracts $10K and under
Department figures are net expenditure (Public Accounts, Volume II), which doesn’t add up to the accrual expenses of the overview’s headline. See the methodology.
