Public Service Commission of Canada’s 2023-24 Departmental Results Report: At a glance

A departmental results report provides an account of actual accomplishments against plans, priorities and expected results set out in the associated 2023-24 Departmental Plan

• Vision, mission, raison d’être and operating context

Read the full Departmental results report

Key priorities

Public Service Commission of Canada’s top priorities for 2023-24 were as follows:

• providing timely support and guidance to help departments and agencies with modern and inclusive hiring
• advancing inclusive digital recruitment and assessment solutions to respond to user needs and expectations

As part of refocusing government spending in Budget 2023, the government committed to reducing spending by $14.1 billion over the following 5 years, starting in 2023-24, and by $4.1 billion annually after that. To meet this commitment, the Public Service Commission of Canada has reduced its spending for fiscal year 2023-24, and will continue to monitor and reduce spending in the coming years by doing the following:

• realigning and streamlining operations
• streamlining and integrating administrative support for internal services to a centralized service delivery model
• internally realigning resources
• reducing expenditures in travel and professional services, where possible

Highlights

In 2023-24, the total actual spending (including internal services) for the Public Service Commission of Canada was $106,893,864 and total full-time equivalents (including internal services) was 853. For complete information on the Public Service Commission of Canada’s total spending and human resources, read the Spending and human resources section of the full report.

The following provides a summary of the department’s achievements in 2023-24 according to its approved Departmental Results Framework. A Departmental Results Framework consists of a department’s core responsibilities, the results it plans to achieve and the performance indicators that measure progress toward these results.

Core responsibility: Public Service Hiring and Non-partisanship

Actual spending: $65,436,143 in 2023-24

Actual human resources: 554 full-time equivalents in 2023-24

Note: The internal services allocation has been revised in-year, due to a change in methodology to better align spending and human resources to areas of Program activities. For this reason, spending and human resources for the core responsibility have increased accordingly.

Departmental results achieved

• Departmental result 1: The public service efficiently hires the workforce of the future that is capable and ready to deliver results for Canadians
• Departmental result 2: The public service reflects Canada’s diversity
• Departmental result 3: Canadians are served by a politically impartial public service

More information about Public Service Hiring and Non-partisanship can be found in the “Results – what we achieved” section of the full departmental results report.