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Canadian Space Agency

What Canadian Space Agency spent in fiscal year 2017-18: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

Spending, 2017-18

Net spending, 2017-18

$353M

spent by Canadian Space Agency, less revenues it kept

Share, 2017-18

0.1%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Canadian Space Agency spend its budget in 2017-18?

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, 2017-18

Professional and special services

Personnel

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Transfer payments

Repair and maintenance

Transportation and communications

Acquisition of land, buildings and works

Information

Rentals

Other subsidies and payments

Utilities, materials and supplies

$110M

$78.8M

$72.3M

$60.9M

$8.8M

$4.7M

$4.3M

$4M

$3.7M

$2.8M

$2.6M

Total: $353M.

Spending by program, 2017-18

The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $353M in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.

Workforce, 2017-18

Full-time equivalents

654

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

Personnel spending

$78.8M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$120K

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, 2017-18

The grants, contributions and other transfers Canadian Space Agency paid, program by program: $60.9M in all, against $60.9M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Contributions to the Canada/European Space Agency Cooperation AgreementPaymentsContribution$41,766,413
Class Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and TechnologyPaymentsContribution$10,507,215
Class Grant Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and TechnologyPaymentsGrant$8,674,322
3 programs$60,947,950

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$190,238$86,797$40,690$1,490,554$1,808,279
2024$214,517$224,316$56,151$2,798,527$3,293,511
2023$305,614$465,980$24,070$3,262,984$4,058,647
2022$224,351$356,188$49,779$2,697,699$3,328,017
2021$199,931$387,384$187,414$1,913,539$2,688,268
2020$234,492$484,848$58,573$1,702,241$2,480,154
2018$458,427$773,975$97,330$2,035,049$3,364,781
2017$432,196$506,930$54,058$2,619,266$3,612,451

Canadian Space Agency’s share of federal net spending