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Population of the federal public service in the National Capital Region

From: Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

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About the data

When reading the table below, the following information applies:

  • Source of information: Pay System as of of each year.
  • The federal public service consists of 2 population segments: the core public administration and separate agencies.
  • Departments and agencies in the core public administration are named in schedules I and IV of the Financial Administration Act. The Treasury Board is the employer of this segment of the federal public service.
  • Separate agencies are named in Schedule V of the act. Separate agencies conduct their own negotiations or set their own classification levels for their employees.
  • Included in this information are:
    • active employees of all employment tenures (indeterminate, term, casual and student)
    • Governor in Council appointees
    • deputy ministers
    • federal judges
  • Excluded from this information are:
    • inactive employees (i.e., employees on leave without pay)
    • ministers’ exempt staff
    • employees locally engaged outside of Canada
    • RCMP Regular Force members
    • RCMP Civilian members
    • Canadian Forces members
  • Population counts for the following separate agencies are not included because their employee information is not available in the Pay System:
    • Canadian Security Intelligence Service
    • National Capital Commission
    • Canada Investment and Savings
    • Canadian Forces Non-Public Funds
    • Security Intelligence Review Committee (before 2010)
Population of the federal public service in the National Capital Region
National Capital Region Year
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Core public administration
Ontario 66,872 68,040 67,498 63,719 60,416 59,172 59,479 60,598 63,491 70,156 75,168 80,050 84,049 90,071
Quebec 26,105 26,376 25,437 23,980 26,185 27,481 27,008 28,140 30,499 31,578 31,689 33,651 35,282 37,369
Total 92,977 94,416 92,935 87,699 86,601 86,653 86,487 88,738 93,990 101,734 106,857 113,701 119,331 127,440
Separate agencies
Ontario 21,296 21,266 21,074 20,156 20,108 20,107 20,294 18,660 18,443 18,846 19,538 20,405 21,564 23,757
Quebec 677 675 647 578 538 528 594 579 595 650 697 711 852 739
Total 21,973 21,941 21,721 20,734 20,646 20,635 20,888 19,239 19,038 19,496 20,235 21,116 22,416 24,496
Federal public service
Ontario 88,168 89,306 88,572 83,875 80,524 79,279 79,773 79,258 81,934 89,002 94,706 100,455 105,613 113,828
Quebec 26,782 27,051 26,084 24,558 26,723 28,009 27,602 28,719 31,094 32,228 32,386 34,362 36,134 38,108
Total 114,950 116,357 114,656 108,433 107,247 107,288 107,375 107,977 113,028 121,230 127,092 134,817 141,747 151,936

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Population of the federal public service by National Capital Region
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(CSV version – 2 KB) 		These data present population counts by National Capital Region for all federal public service organizations (all departments and agencies governed by the Financial Administration Act (FAA) Schedules I, IV and V) from to .

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