Privy Council Office
What Privy Council Office spent in fiscal year 2024-25: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through Privy Council; the overview shows it in that ministry.
What Privy Council Office does
Privy Council Office supports the Prime Minister and Cabinet, coordinating policy development and the machinery of government across federal departments and agencies.
Spending, 2024-25
Net spending, 2024-25
$252M
spent by Privy Council Office, less revenues it kept
Share, 2024-25
0.1%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Privy Council Office spend its budget in 2024-25?
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, 2024-25
Personnel
Professional and special services
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Transportation and communications
Rentals
Information
Repair and maintenance
Transfer payments
Utilities, materials and supplies
Other subsidies and payments
External revenues
Internal revenues
$188M
$36M
$10.1M
$7.8M
$6.5M
$5.6M
$3.2M
$1.2M
$788K
$572K
-$249K
-$8.1M
Total: $252M.
Spending by program, 2024-25
The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $252M in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.
$113M
$44.9M
$22.5M
$19.3M
$14.2M
$12.5M
$10.9M
$9.9M
$4.5M
Workforce, 2024-25
Personnel spending
$188M
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
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, 2024-25
The grants, contributions and other transfers Privy Council Office paid, program by program: $1.2M in all, against $1.2M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Contribution Program for Commissions of InquiryPayments | Contribution | $1,228,977 |
| 1 programs | $1,228,977 | |
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 | $499,683 | $435,105 | $0 | $1,240,738 | $2,175,525 |
| 2023 | $521,934 | $721,311 | $0 | $1,357,533 | $2,600,777 |
| 2022 | $438,012 | $842,608 | $4,284 | $1,266,356 | $2,551,259 |
| 2021 | $901,374 | $1,609,715 | $94,998 | $373,198 | $2,979,285 |
| 2020 | $516,254 | $569,108 | $6,657 | $947,996 | $2,040,015 |
Privy Council Office’s share of federal net spending
Other organizations in Privy Council
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2025, 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)
- 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.
