Education costs

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This statement provides details of education costs incurred in the current year. For the purpose of this statement, an education cost represents the cost of any long-term education activity. A long-term education activity is any training or development activity given to a Government employee and conducted at an educational institution outside of the Public Service that amounted or will amount to a total of 65 working days or more over a maximum period of three (3) years, or that involved or will involve total expenditures in excess of $25,000 (including salary).

Table 1:Education costsLinks to footnote * in Table 1
(in dollars)
Department and agency Number of employees SalariesLinks to footnote 1 in Table 1 Travel and living costs Tuition feesLinks to footnote 2 in Table 1 Other expenditures Total
Agriculture and Agri-Food
Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food 8 85,725 27,658 75,000 – 188,383
Canadian Heritage
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission 1 8,414 – 36,000 – 44,414
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs
Canadian High Arctic Research Station 5 150,598 106,114 4,590 – 261,302
Employment and Workforce Development
Department of Employment and Social Development 7 19,238 935 75,595 – 95,768
Energy and Natural Resources
Department of Natural Resources 2 102,018 9,238 4,370 – 115,626
Environment and Climate Change
Department of the Environment 7 49,804 32,368 113,332 – 195,504
Impact Assessment Agency of Canada 1 13,643 – – – 13,643
Finance
Department of Finance 1 10,676 – 36,000 – 46,676
Office of the Auditor General 3 37,743 10,810 35,343 – 83,896
Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions 1 1,250 1,645 – – 2,895
Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard
Department of Fisheries and Oceans 16 216,363 67,692 44,714 2,245 331,014
Global Affairs
Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development 2 – – – 112,069 112,069
Health
Department of Health 4 33,279 8,170 78,570 – 120,019
Canadian Food Inspection Agency 2 32,513 9,670 32,990 – 75,173
Public Health Agency of Canada 2 15,997 5,343 49,538 – 70,878
Housing, Infrastructure and Communities
Department of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities 3 27,663 17,950 71,490 – 117,103
Office of Infrastructure of Canada 5 18,064 6,481 18,000 – 42,545
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
Immigration and Refugee Board 1 – – 24,521 – 24,521
Indigenous Services
Department of Indigenous Services 7 375,212 – 21,505 276 396,993
Innovation, Science and Industry
Department of Industry 8 47,211 – 12,998 758 60,967
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency 2 3,149 – 3,575 136 6,860
Copyright Board 1 7,800 – – – 7,800
Department of Western Economic Diversification 1 4,264 1,131 17,490 – 22,885
Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec 2 28,387 18,050 15,500 – 61,937
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario 1 19,408 2,467 – – 21,875
National Research Council of Canada 4 172,804 – – – 172,804
Statistics Canada 2 14,195 1,462 35,490 – 51,147
Justice
Department of Justice 1 13,730 – 2,766 – 16,496
Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions 1 59,105 – – – 59,105
National Defence
Department of National Defence 488 52,372,295 5,745,443 25,888,344 28,187 84,034,269
National Revenue
Canada Revenue Agency 12 66,950 – 74,297 – 141,247
Parks Canada
Parks Canada Agency 2 28,506 – 22,676 – 51,182
Privy Council
National Security and Intelligence Review Agency Secretariat 1 41,668 – – – 41,668
Public Service Commission 1 3,225 2,478 35,977 – 41,680
Public Safety
Canada Border Services Agency 5 – 3,959 112,499 – 116,458
Correctional Service of Canada 2 62,731 – 9,973 – 72,704
Royal Canadian Mounted Police 27 116,983 128,886 623,463 – 869,332
Royal Canadian Mounted Police External Review Committee 1 9,913 – 9,459 – 19,372
Public Services and Procurement
Department of Public Works and Government Services 6 80,503 7,639 50,876 – 139,018
Shared Services Canada 3 35,817 10,504 65,990 – 112,311
Transport
Department of Transport 35 293,298 146,500 718,490 5,340 1,163,628
Treasury Board
Treasury Board Secretariat 4 42,217 13,051 72,000 50 127,318
Canada School of Public Service 3 17,802 10,337 64,966 – 93,105
Office of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner 1 113,257 – – – 113,257
Women, Gender Equity and Youth
Department for Women and Gender Equality 1 9,913 2,026 36,000 – 47,939
Total 693 54,863,331 6,398,007 28,594,387 149,061 90,004,786

Table 1 notes

Table note *

The dash means that the amount is 0 or is rounded to 0.

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Table note 1

Includes allowances in lieu of pay.

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Table note 2

Includes book allowances.

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