Federal public servants are paid an average of $125,300 per year including salary, benefits, and overtime, says Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Yves Giroux, who noted the wage has risen significantly over the past fiscal year.
While excluding one-time expenditures from his estimate, Giroux’s office wrote in a report published on April 4 that yearly pay per “full-time equivalent” of employees working within the federal public service increased from an average of around $117,500 in the 2019-2020 fiscal year to $125,300 in 2021-2022, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.
The increase of over 6.5 percent was mostly due to salary increases, but the PBO wrote in its “Personnel Expenditure Analysis Update” that government spending on pensions, overtime pay, and bonuses also grew at a fast percentage rate….