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Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

What Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada spent in fiscal year 2015-16: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

Spending, 2015-16

Net spending, 2015-16

$1.12B

spent by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, less revenues it kept

Share, 2015-16

0.5%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada spend its budget in 2015-16?

By standard object. Revenues it kept are negative and netted against its spending. Transfer payments are broken into their largest named programs.

Spending by standard object, 2015-16

Transfer payments

Personnel

Professional and special services

Transportation and communications

Rentals

Information

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Utilities, materials and supplies

Other subsidies and payments

Repair and maintenance

$1.07B

$37.7M

$3.8M

$3M

$1M

$945K

$679K

$156K

$138K

$125K

Total: $1.12B.

Spending by program, 2015-16

The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $1.12B in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.

Workforce, 2015-16

Full-time equivalents

403

the actual FTEs of its programs, as GC InfoBase reports them

Personnel spending

$37.7M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$94K

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.

Transfer payment programs, 2015-16

The grants, contributions and other transfers Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada paid, program by program: $1.07B in all, against $1.07B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Grants and ScholarshipsPaymentsGrant$858,143,860
Canada Graduate ScholarshipsPaymentsGrant$42,572,667
College and Community Innovation ProgramPaymentsGrant$40,655,749
Networks of Centres of ExcellencePaymentsGrant$33,430,050
Canada First Research Excellence FundPaymentsGrant$31,234,943
Canada Excellence Research ChairsPaymentsGrant$25,050,000
Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and ResearchPaymentsGrant$8,925,237
Vanier Canada Graduate ScholarshipsPaymentsGrant$8,286,944
Business-Led Networks of Centres of ExcellencePaymentsGrant$6,917,000
Industrial R&D Internship ProgramPaymentsGrant$6,880,000
Industrial Research Chairs for CollegesPaymentsGrant$4,276,714
College-University Idea to InnovationPaymentsGrant$1,672,005
12 programs$1,068,045,169

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 yearGoodsServicesConstructionAcquisition cardsTotal
2025$130,524$183,052$0$367,309$680,885
2024$159,522$155,846$0$286,442$601,810
2022$128,247$152,840$0$292,781$573,867
2021$118,908$159,675$0$297,582$576,166
2017$192,675$207,224$0$422,483$822,383

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s share of federal net spending