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Privy Council Office

What Privy Council Office spent in fiscal year 2018-19: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

What Privy Council Office does

Privy Council Office supports the Prime Minister and Cabinet, coordinating policy development and the machinery of government across federal departments and agencies.

Spending, 2018-19

Net spending, 2018-19

$214M

spent by Privy Council Office, less revenues it kept

Share, 2018-19

0.1%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Privy Council Office spend its budget in 2018-19?

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, 2018-19

Personnel

Professional and special services

Information

Transportation and communications

Transfer payments

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Repair and maintenance

Rentals

Utilities, materials and supplies

Other subsidies and payments

External revenues

Internal revenues

$134M

$34.1M

$15.9M

$8.7M

$7.4M

$5.7M

$3.6M

$3M

$1.2M

$1.2M

-$65K

-$895K

Total: $214M.

Spending by program, 2018-19

The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $214M in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.

Workforce, 2018-19

Full-time equivalents

1,180

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

Personnel spending

$134M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$114K

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, 2018-19

The grants, contributions and other transfers Privy Council Office paid, program by program: $7.4M in all, against $7.4M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and GirlsPaymentsContribution$7,431,001
1 programs$7,431,001

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$499,683$435,105$0$1,240,738$2,175,525
2023$521,934$721,311$0$1,357,533$2,600,777
2022$438,012$842,608$4,284$1,266,356$2,551,259
2021$901,374$1,609,715$94,998$373,198$2,979,285
2020$516,254$569,108$6,657$947,996$2,040,015

Privy Council Office’s share of federal net spending