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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 2017-18: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

Spending, 2017-18

Net spending, 2017-18

$1.22B

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

Share, 2017-18

0.5%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 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

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

Acquisition of land, buildings and works

$1.17B

$43.7M

$3.7M

$2.9M

$1.3M

$910K

$706K

$184K

$108K

$60K

$4K

Total: $1.22B.

Spending by program, 2017-18

The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $1.22B in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.

Workforce, 2017-18

Full-time equivalents

422

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

Personnel spending

$43.7M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$104K

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 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada paid, program by program: $1.17B in all, against $1.17B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Grants and ScholarshipsPaymentsGrant$894,799,226
Canada First Research Excellence FundPaymentsGrant$101,820,801
College and Community Innovation ProgramPaymentsGrant$52,366,925
Canada Graduate ScholarshipsPaymentsGrant$42,553,759
Networks of Centres of ExcellencePaymentsGrant$31,590,000
Canada Excellence Research ChairsPaymentsGrant$14,816,667
Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and ResearchPaymentsGrant$11,902,676
Vanier Canada Graduate ScholarshipsPaymentsGrant$8,287,499
Business-Led Networks of Centres of ExcellencePaymentsGrant$6,096,500
Canada 150 Research ChairsPaymentsGrant$1,359,118
10 programs$1,165,593,171

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