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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 2016-17: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

Spending, 2016-17

Net spending, 2016-17

$1.19B

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

Share, 2016-17

0.5%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada spend its budget in 2016-17?

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, 2016-17

Transfer payments

Personnel

Professional and special services

Transportation and communications

Information

Rentals

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Repair and maintenance

Utilities, materials and supplies

Other subsidies and payments

$1.14B

$38.4M

$4.4M

$2.9M

$1.6M

$1M

$518K

$247K

$135K

$81K

Total: $1.19B.

Spending by program, 2016-17

The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $1.19B in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.

Workforce, 2016-17

Full-time equivalents

412

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

Personnel spending

$38.4M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$93K

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, 2016-17

The grants, contributions and other transfers Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada paid, program by program: $1.14B in all, against $1.14B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Grants and ScholarshipsPaymentsGrant$894,566,629
Canada First Research Excellence FundPaymentsGrant$66,506,108
College and Community Innovation ProgramPaymentsGrant$52,200,459
Canada Graduate ScholarshipsPaymentsGrant$42,562,444
Networks of Centres of ExcellencePaymentsGrant$33,430,050
Canada Excellence Research ChairsPaymentsGrant$25,448,000
Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and ResearchPaymentsGrant$12,494,569
Vanier Canada Graduate ScholarshipsPaymentsGrant$8,307,394
Business-Led Networks of Centres of ExcellencePaymentsGrant$6,551,000
9 programs$1,142,066,653

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