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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 2020-21: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

Spending, 2020-21

Net spending, 2020-21

$1.49B

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

Share, 2020-21

0.3%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of 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

Transfer payments

Personnel

Professional and special services

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Rentals

Information

Transportation and communications

Other subsidies and payments

Repair and maintenance

Utilities, materials and supplies

$1.43B

$49.3M

$7.9M

$2.3M

$1.6M

$960K

$570K

$167K

$128K

$77K

Total: $1.49B.

Workforce, 2020-21

Full-time equivalents

496

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

Personnel spending

$49.3M

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, 2020-21

The grants, contributions and other transfers Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada paid, program by program: $1.43B in all, against $1.43B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Grants and ScholarshipsPaymentsGrant$1,092,554,609
Canada First Research Excellence FundPaymentsGrant$137,135,497
College and Community Innovation ProgramPaymentsGrant$73,454,656
Canada Graduate ScholarshipsPaymentsGrant$48,545,749
Networks of Centres of ExcellencePaymentsGrant$27,899,844
Canada Excellence Research ChairsPaymentsGrant$14,000,000
Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and ResearchPaymentsGrant$10,651,980
Canada 150 Research ChairsPaymentsGrant$9,450,000
Vanier Canada Graduate ScholarshipsPaymentsGrant$8,973,340
Business-Led Networks of Centres of ExcellencePaymentsGrant$2,763,000
10 programs$1,425,428,675

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

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