Science and Engineering Research Canada
What Science and Engineering Research Canada spent in fiscal year 2019-20: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Published as Science and Engineering Research Canada that year; it is now Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
Reports through Innovation, Science and Economic Development; the overview shows it in that ministry.
Spending, 2019-20
Net spending, 2019-20
$1.36B
spent by Science and Engineering Research Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2019-20
0.4%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Science and Engineering Research Canada spend its budget in 2019-20?
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, 2019-20
Transfer payments
Personnel
Professional and special services
Transportation and communications
Rentals
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Information
Repair and maintenance
Utilities, materials and supplies
Acquisition of land, buildings and works
Other subsidies and payments
$1.3B
$46.8M
$7.6M
$3.3M
$1.8M
$1.7M
$1.1M
$157K
$89K
$72K
$47K
Total: $1.36B.
Spending by program, 2019-20
The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $1.36B in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.
$780M
$393M
$160M
$8.7M
$7M
$2.8M
$2.7M
$2M
$1.1M
$998K
$758K
$457K
$11K
Workforce, 2019-20
Full-time equivalents
471
the actual FTEs of its programs, as GC InfoBase reports them
Personnel spending
$46.8M
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
Personnel spending per FTE
$99K
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, 2019-20
The grants, contributions and other transfers Science and Engineering Research Canada paid, program by program: $1.3B in all, against $1.3B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Grants and ScholarshipsPayments | Grant | $950,846,831 |
| Canada First Research Excellence FundPayments | Grant | $137,135,497 |
| College and Community Innovation ProgramPayments | Grant | $75,727,700 |
| Canada Graduate ScholarshipsPayments | Grant | $46,880,337 |
| Networks of Centres of ExcellencePayments | Grant | $31,590,000 |
| Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and ResearchPayments | Grant | $19,009,995 |
| Canada Excellence Research ChairsPayments | Grant | $11,936,000 |
| Canada 150 Research ChairsPayments | Grant | $9,450,000 |
| Vanier Canada Graduate ScholarshipsPayments | Grant | $8,325,000 |
| Business-Led Networks of Centres of ExcellencePayments | Grant | $5,960,000 |
| 10 programs | $1,296,861,360 | |
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 year | Goods | Services | Construction | Acquisition cards | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Other organizations in Innovation, Science and Economic Development
- Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
- Western Economic Diversification Canada
- National Research Council Canada
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- Statistics Canada
- Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
- Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
- Canadian Space Agency
- Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
- Destination Canada
- Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
- Standards Council of Canada
- Copyright Board Canada
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2020, Volume II: Ministerial expenditures by standard object (Table 3)
- Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II: Transfer payments (multi-year open data)
- GC InfoBase – Federal Programs – Actual and Planned Spending (programs_spending.csv)
- GC InfoBase – Federal Programs – Actual and Planned Employees (programs_ftes.csv)
- Proactive Publication - Contracts: Aggregated Total - Contracts $10K and under
Department figures are net expenditure (Public Accounts, Volume II), which doesn’t add up to the accrual expenses of the overview’s headline. See the methodology.
