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Correctional Service Canada

What Correctional Service Canada spent in fiscal year 2020-21: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

Spending, 2020-21

Net spending, 2020-21

$2.93B

spent by Correctional Service Canada, less revenues it kept

Share, 2020-21

0.7%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Correctional Service Canada spend its budget in 2020-21?

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, 2020-21

Personnel

Professional and special services

Utilities, materials and supplies

Other subsidies and payments

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Acquisition of land, buildings and works

Repair and maintenance

Rentals

Transportation and communications

Transfer payments

Information

External revenues

Internal revenues

$2.1B

$412M

$199M

$121M

$71.8M

$52M

$31.6M

$28.1M

$21M

$3.7M

$388K

-$5.4M

-$100M

Total: $2.93B.

Workforce, 2020-21

Full-time equivalents

17,846

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

Personnel spending

$2.1B

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$118K

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, 2020-21

The grants, contributions and other transfers Correctional Service Canada paid, program by program: $3.7M in all, against $3.7M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Correctional Service of Canada's National Infrastructure Contribution ProgramPaymentsContribution$3,606,969
Grant to the University of Saskatchewan for Forensic Research CentrePaymentsGrant$120,000
2 programs$3,726,969

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$90,587,830$24,325,266$1,760,582$44,851,087$161,524,765
2024$104,988,836$27,061,166$4,191,817$26,850,229$163,092,049
2023$106,344,090$28,360,457$5,155,047$24,022,652$163,882,247
2022$94,855,662$26,355,936$3,097,360$19,086,648$143,395,606
2021$87,262,132$26,948,348$296,761$16,849,829$131,357,070
2020$91,066,687$25,894,561$4,557,605$16,633,269$138,152,123
2019$85,490,127$32,201,934$5,525,095$15,075,224$138,292,381
2018$91,024,490$32,090,988$4,722,590$10,327,991$138,166,059
2017$80,639,497$31,268,436$3,678,943$9,088,093$124,674,969

Correctional Service Canada’s share of federal net spending