National Research Council Canada
What National Research Council Canada spent in fiscal year 2023-24: 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, 2023-24
Net spending, 2023-24
$1.53B
spent by National Research Council Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2023-24
0.3%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did National Research Council Canada spend its budget in 2023-24?
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, 2023-24
Transfer payments
Personnel
Professional and special services
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Utilities, materials and supplies
Acquisition of land, buildings and works
Repair and maintenance
Rentals
Transportation and communications
Other subsidies and payments
Information
$625M
$566M
$96.6M
$84.6M
$45.3M
$33M
$25M
$16.3M
$16.1M
$16M
$1.6M
Total: $1.53B.
Spending by program, 2023-24
The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $1.53B in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.
$567M
$69.8M
$68M
$66.4M
$60.1M
$58.7M
$54.7M
$53.6M
$51.9M
$48.6M
$44.8M
$42.9M
$38.5M
$30.1M
$26.5M
$25.6M
$22.7M
$21.2M
$19.7M
$19.6M
$18.7M
$17.9M
$14.5M
$14.2M
$13.2M
$12M
$11.7M
$10.8M
$7.2M
$4.7M
$4.6M
$3.3M
$1.7M
$894K
Workforce, 2023-24
Full-time equivalents
4,323
the actual FTEs of its programs, as GC InfoBase reports them
Personnel spending
$566M
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
Personnel spending per FTE
$131K
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, 2023-24
The grants, contributions and other transfers National Research Council Canada paid, program by program: $625M in all, against $625M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Industrial Research Assistance Program-Contributions to FirmsPayments | Contribution | $408,981,271 |
| Contribution to TRIUMF (Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics)Payments | Contribution | $60,100,000 |
| Contributions to the International Astronomical Observatories ProgramPayments | Contribution | $36,692,788 |
| Grant under the Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation ProgramPayments | Grant | $35,309,999 |
| Industrial Research Assistance Program-Contributions to OrganizationsPayments | Contribution | $34,162,693 |
| Industrial Research Assistance Program—Contributions to Youth Employment and Skills StrategyPayments | Contribution | $21,096,651 |
| Biologics Manufacturing Centre Contribution ProgramPayments | Contribution | $18,724,700 |
| Contributions under the Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation ProgramPayments | Contribution | $4,888,633 |
| Grant under the Innovative Solutions Canada programPayments | Grant | $3,523,509 |
| International AffiliationsPayments | Grant | $893,633 |
| Payment of an assessed contribution for the Bureau International des Poids et MesuresPayments | Contribution | $638,795 |
| 11 programs | $625,012,672 | |
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 | $6,914,223 | $5,220,000 | $143,080 | $39,533,419 | $51,810,722 |
| 2024 | $8,257,315 | $6,697,310 | $183,203 | $36,503,854 | $51,641,682 |
| 2023 | $10,531,972 | $6,906,388 | $248,018 | $31,310,077 | $48,996,455 |
| 2022 | $12,872,257 | $7,933,666 | $291,120 | $28,931,043 | $50,028,086 |
| 2019 | $18,619,808 | $28,372,858 | $540,951 | $21,800,753 | $69,334,369 |
| 2018 | $18,781,447 | $28,223,786 | $549,480 | $19,430,930 | $66,985,644 |
| 2017 | $20,149,958 | $8,936,451 | $558,449 | $20,498,741 | $50,143,598 |
National Research Council Canada’s share of federal net spending
Other organizations in Innovation, Science and Industry
- Innovation, Science and Economic Development 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
- Canadian Space Agency
- Destination Canada
- Standards Council of Canada
- Copyright Board Canada
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2024, 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.
