Canada Border Services Agency
What Canada Border Services Agency spent in fiscal year 2023-24: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs; the overview shows it in that ministry.
Spending, 2023-24
Net spending, 2023-24
$2.69B
spent by Canada Border Services Agency, less revenues it kept
Share, 2023-24
0.6%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Canada Border Services Agency spend its budget in 2023-24?
By standard object. Revenues it kept are negative and netted against its spending.
Spending by standard object, 2023-24
Personnel
Professional and special services
Transportation and communications
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Repair and maintenance
Acquisition of land, buildings and works
Utilities, materials and supplies
Other subsidies and payments
Rentals
Information
External revenues
$2.01B
$475M
$64.9M
$54.7M
$42.7M
$33.5M
$20.7M
$13.3M
$10.1M
$4.3M
-$32.4M
Total: $2.69B.
Spending by program, 2023-24
The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $2.69B in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.
$696M
$428M
$192M
$149M
$121M
$118M
$111M
$103M
$101M
$76.2M
$69M
$65.8M
$65.1M
$57.7M
$46.9M
$46.8M
$46.1M
$31.1M
$28.4M
$24.6M
$22.8M
$19.7M
$15.8M
$13.6M
$12.8M
$11.8M
$11.1M
$9.3M
Workforce, 2023-24
Full-time equivalents
16,470
the actual FTEs of its programs, as GC InfoBase reports them
Personnel spending
$2.01B
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.
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 | $104,192 | $216,864 | $9,633 | $20,583,510 | $20,914,199 |
| 2024 | $682,862 | $992,609 | $7,575 | $24,049,821 | $25,732,867 |
| 2023 | $834,075 | $1,119,610 | $0 | $24,960,812 | $26,914,498 |
| 2019 | $1,935,661 | $1,871,518 | $28,727 | $22,048,747 | $25,884,653 |
| 2018 | $1,439,556 | $1,802,451 | $19,579 | $19,332,146 | $22,593,732 |
| 2017 | $1,534,467 | $1,389,574 | $5,225 | $16,263,536 | $19,192,802 |
| 2016 | $900,284 | $1,721,184 | $5,424 | $19,243,374 | $21,870,266 |
Canada Border Services Agency’s share of federal net spending
Other organizations in Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs
- Public Safety Canada
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- Correctional Service Canada
- Canadian Security Intelligence Service
- Office of the Chief Electoral Officer
- Parole Board of Canada
- Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages
- Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP
- Canadian Intergovernmental Conference Secretariat
- The Correctional Investigator Canada
- RCMP External Review Committee
- Leaders’ Debates Commission
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2024, Volume II: Ministerial expenditures by standard object (Table 3)
- 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.
