Canadian Space Agency
What Canadian Space Agency spent in fiscal year 2022-23: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through Innovation, Science and Industry; the overview shows it in that ministry.
Spending, 2022-23
Net spending, 2022-23
$498M
spent by Canadian Space Agency, less revenues it kept
Share, 2022-23
0.1%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Canadian Space Agency spend its budget in 2022-23?
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, 2022-23
Professional and special services
Personnel
Transfer payments
Transportation and communications
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Rentals
Repair and maintenance
Other subsidies and payments
Information
Utilities, materials and supplies
Acquisition of land, buildings and works
$278M
$102M
$85.1M
$8.9M
$5.9M
$5.8M
$4.9M
$2.5M
$2.5M
$1.6M
$1.2M
Total: $498M.
Spending by program, 2022-23
The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $498M in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.
$268M
$105M
$52.3M
$21M
$15.8M
$9.1M
$7.2M
$7M
$5.8M
$4.4M
$1.3M
$1.1M
$334K
Workforce, 2022-23
Full-time equivalents
833
the actual FTEs of its programs, as GC InfoBase reports them
Personnel spending
$102M
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
Personnel spending per FTE
$122K
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, 2022-23
The grants, contributions and other transfers Canadian Space Agency paid, program by program: $85.1M in all, against $85.1M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Contributions to the Canada/European Space Agency Cooperation AgreementPayments | Contribution | $47,439,179 |
| Class Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and TechnologyPayments | Contribution | $23,566,658 |
| Class Grant Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and TechnologyPayments | Grant | $14,058,689 |
| 3 programs | $85,064,526 | |
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 | $190,238 | $86,797 | $40,690 | $1,490,554 | $1,808,279 |
| 2024 | $214,517 | $224,316 | $56,151 | $2,798,527 | $3,293,511 |
| 2023 | $305,614 | $465,980 | $24,070 | $3,262,984 | $4,058,647 |
| 2022 | $224,351 | $356,188 | $49,779 | $2,697,699 | $3,328,017 |
| 2021 | $199,931 | $387,384 | $187,414 | $1,913,539 | $2,688,268 |
| 2020 | $234,492 | $484,848 | $58,573 | $1,702,241 | $2,480,154 |
| 2018 | $458,427 | $773,975 | $97,330 | $2,035,049 | $3,364,781 |
| 2017 | $432,196 | $506,930 | $54,058 | $2,619,266 | $3,612,451 |
Canadian Space Agency’s share of federal net spending
Other organizations in Innovation, Science and Industry
- Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
- Prairies Economic Development Canada
- National Research Council Canada
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- Statistics Canada
- Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
- Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
- Destination Canada
- Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
- Standards Council of Canada
- Copyright Board Canada
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2023, 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.
