Population of the federal public service by province or territory of work and tenure

Source of information: Pay System as of March 31 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. As independent employers, represented separate agencies conduct their own negotiations (subject to the President of the Treasury Board’s approval of their mandates) and set terms and conditions of employment within their organizations. This includes establishing the organizational structure and classification of positions. Unrepresented separate agencies consult with TBS with respect to any new or modified terms and conditions of employment that are not established through the collective bargaining process, to ensure broad alignment with those in the core public administration.
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
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Regular Force members
- RCMP Civilian members
- Canadian Armed 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 by province or territory of work and tenure
Province or territory of Work	Tenure	Year
Province or territory of Work	Tenure	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026
Alberta	Casual	383	381	245	272	284	328	269	273	329	274	173	194
	Indeterminate	12,316	12,328	12,507	12,438	12,945	13,462	14,044	14,183	15,032	15,621	15,761	15,550
	Student	240	230	220	265	282	282	203	274	301	334	253	190
	Term	1,489	1,864	1,940	2,141	2,048	2,016	2,995	3,694	3,817	3,373	2,693	2,669
British Columbia	Casual	676	578	466	385	429	423	456	424	514	452	323	212
	Indeterminate	19,190	19,103	18,918	19,129	19,947	20,682	21,768	21,930	23,012	24,037	24,127	23,732
	Student	448	437	419	424	516	524	481	558	548	554	467	398
	Term	2,609	2,706	2,580	2,972	2,988	3,111	3,759	4,729	5,183	4,838	3,983	3,599
	Unknown	0	0	0	1	10	10	0	0	0	0	1	0
Manitoba	Casual	232	216	96	107	118	109	114	154	138	125	69	67
	Indeterminate	8,314	8,126	8,226	8,395	8,805	9,121	9,482	9,502	10,077	10,496	10,463	10,176
	Student	155	117	116	148	168	201	167	198	252	247	215	176
	Term	1,387	1,560	1,647	2,204	2,275	2,192	2,393	3,211	2,936	3,127	2,488	2,260
	Unknown	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1
National Capital Region (NCR)	Casual	3,984	3,981	3,839	4,371	4,936	4,468	4,589	4,845	4,811	3,730	2,461	1,697
	Indeterminate	94,438	93,912	94,592	98,245	104,175	109,592	116,317	121,217	130,501	135,481	137,673	133,072
	Student	2,909	3,083	3,158	3,544	4,371	4,392	4,296	4,954	5,121	4,808	3,902	3,088
	Term	5,957	6,399	6,361	6,858	7,731	8,633	9,610	10,714	11,491	11,444	9,922	8,290
	Unknown	0	0	27	10	17	7	5	17	12	42	21	2
New Brunswick	Casual	386	434	287	304	230	264	394	446	246	256	123	86
	Indeterminate	7,079	7,024	7,110	7,212	7,641	7,914	8,565	9,406	9,905	10,404	10,532	10,277
	Student	91	85	62	67	97	96	83	95	131	139	114	74
	Term	725	785	893	1,442	1,665	1,848	1,837	1,773	2,148	2,611	2,339	2,070
	Unknown	0	0	0	7	5	7	2	0	1	0	0	0
Newfoundland and Labrador	Casual	162	143	121	151	101	167	367	227	94	57	41	42
	Indeterminate	3,535	3,440	3,451	3,658	3,862	3,987	4,369	4,723	4,986	5,328	5,292	5,222
	Student	75	66	92	127	91	79	98	79	69	52	39	27
	Term	939	913	1,119	1,412	1,384	1,492	2,018	2,716	2,703	2,169	1,623	1,598
	Unknown	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
Northwest Territories	Casual	13	6	7	8	4	9	12	12	10	10	8	4
	Indeterminate	417	432	444	435	442	453	492	488	499	514	508	517
	Student	5	3	0	2	7	1	1	4	4	2	1	0
	Term	37	50	45	37	53	52	66	71	83	75	74	73
	Unknown	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nova Scotia	Casual	745	682	510	446	600	536	665	572	406	383	120	178
	Indeterminate	8,863	8,632	8,407	8,641	9,031	9,400	9,722	10,125	10,839	11,300	11,386	11,294
	Student	82	106	79	93	109	106	100	134	126	132	127	102
	Term	859	1,016	1,092	1,053	1,124	1,102	1,310	1,339	1,634	1,625	1,326	1,297
	Unknown	0	0	12	11	16	4	9	11	0	6	8	4
Nunavut	Casual	16	11	4	2	5	3	4	2	3	3	2	3
	Indeterminate	252	245	249	257	256	267	287	302	313	347	361	331
	Student	1	1	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	3	1
	Term	17	24	29	29	34	46	43	49	50	45	42	37
Ontario (minus the NCR)	Casual	948	829	452	578	600	494	649	829	838	764	362	265
	Indeterminate	31,871	31,635	31,433	32,452	33,159	33,924	35,112	35,388	38,341	40,671	41,263	40,744
	Student	696	672	772	810	877	1,094	776	1,048	1,176	1,266	803	544
	Term	4,276	4,770	4,761	4,542	4,983	5,577	6,966	7,783	8,394	8,190	6,458	5,820
	Unknown	0	0	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	1
Outside of Canada	Casual	4	2	3	5	1	0	0	1	1	3	1	10
	Indeterminate	1,439	1,433	1,312	1,336	1,380	1,446	1,309	1,454	1,499	1,545	1,559	1,567
	Student	15	12	21	18	24	39	8	19	35	19	18	18
	Term	19	3	4	8	8	7	6	4	5	4	6	5
	Unknown	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Prince Edward Island	Casual	111	161	84	43	73	47	60	24	45	29	18	12
	Indeterminate	2,322	2,269	2,318	2,329	2,681	2,774	2,840	2,933	3,111	3,173	3,125	3,122
	Student	70	46	74	59	79	75	92	80	84	97	47	42
	Term	612	659	670	770	747	771	896	973	1,007	1,022	926	751
	Unknown	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	45	21	14	26
Quebec (minus the NCR)	Casual	883	875	604	676	762	711	659	929	874	637	364	347
	Indeterminate	24,208	24,154	23,582	23,969	24,491	25,255	26,571	27,479	30,059	31,189	31,694	31,182
	Student	598	569	543	675	731	743	607	694	757	826	723	632
	Term	3,685	3,950	3,990	4,390	4,843	5,057	6,134	7,196	7,220	7,274	6,091	5,732
	Unknown	0	0	1	9	0	1	10	0	0	0	0	1
Saskatchewan	Casual	116	134	76	73	70	75	64	73	96	77	26	30
	Indeterminate	5,090	5,048	5,055	5,011	5,199	5,339	5,406	5,381	5,620	5,812	5,807	5,658
	Student	113	113	92	103	124	154	119	112	115	130	109	111
	Term	565	607	591	609	526	520	653	762	766	784	698	582
	Unknown	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Unknown	Casual	0	810	709	969	761	931	1,027	835	232	185	117	70
	Indeterminate	0	436	4,554	4,866	5,276	5,988	6,009	6,592	6,779	7,801	6,912	7,608
	Student	0	167	628	1,091	676	1,059	1,032	674	482	511	548	504
	Term	0	128	641	471	706	549	774	808	863	817	737	822
	Unknown	0	0	5	19	3	3	3	2	1	2	1	1
Yukon	Casual	4	8	2	7	10	8	7	2	6	5	2	4
	Indeterminate	334	327	316	347	355	369	374	373	408	412	409	418
	Student	2	5	2	0	3	6	1	3	2	2	1	0
	Term	27	38	26	31	30	37	45	55	61	62	62	43
Total		257,034	258,979	262,696	273,571	287,983	300,450	319,601	335,957	357,247	367,772	357,965	345,282

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Population of the federal public service by province or territory of work and tenure	These data present population counts by province or territory of work and tenure for all federal public service organizations (all departments and agencies governed by the Financial Administration Act (FAA) Schedules I, IV and V) from March 31, 2010 to March 31, 2026.

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