Privy Council Office
What Privy Council Office spent in fiscal year 2025-26: 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, 2025-26
Net spending, 2025-26
$246M
spent by Privy Council Office, less revenues it kept
Share, 2025-26
0.1%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Privy Council Office spend its budget in 2025-26?
By standard object. Revenues it kept are negative and netted against its spending.
Spending by standard object, 2025-26
Personnel
Professional and special services
Information
Transportation and communications
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Rentals
Repair and maintenance
Utilities, materials and supplies
Other subsidies and payments
External revenues
Internal revenues
$198M
$26.4M
$8.2M
$6.7M
$6.2M
$5.2M
$2.5M
$737K
$466K
-$283K
-$8.1M
Total: $246M.
Workforce, 2025-26
Personnel spending
$198M
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.
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
- Office of the Chief Electoral Officer
- Public Service Commission of Canada
- Transportation Safety Board of Canada
- Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages
- National Security and Intelligence Review Agency Secretariat
- Secretariat of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians
- Office of the Intelligence Commissioner
- Leaders’ Debates Commission
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2026, Volume II: Ministerial expenditures by standard object (Table 3)
- 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.
