Financial picture

Expenditures

2022-2023

• Salaries: $415,818,325
• Operating : $256,628,551
• Total : $672,446,876

2021-2022

• Salaries: $404,107,049
• Operating: $238,065,778
• Total: $642,172,827

2020-2021

• Salaries: $417,615,370
• Operating: $259,284,331
• Total: $676,899,701

2019-2020

• Salaries: $372,348,794
• Operating: $238,736,299
• Total: $611,085,093

Financial Picture

CSIS has consistently demonstrated strong financial management and has reallocated resources as required to address areas of highest priority and risk. While the disruptions caused by the pandemic have left the Service with a temporary surplus, they have also exposed deep needs to ensure CSIS can adapt and meet the requirements of its workforce, and the Government of Canada, in the future. Transformative change does not come without costs.

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Despite this, it is imperative that CSIS prioritizes investment in people after many years of underinvestment. Since fiscal year 2020-21, CSIS has only received approximately 20% of its five-year funding requests, and 11% of ongoing funding requests. Given increasing demands for CSIS intelligence, and to address significant retention problems created by the inability to work from home, investments are central to responsible stewardship of the organization as a Government of Canada institution.

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CSIS is focused on implementing these important program initiatives, with the necessary recruitment and staffing a top priority. Recruiting, equipping and retaining the highly specialized employees CSIS needs is a challenge that has been exacerbated by the requirement that the majority of our workforce must be present in our secure premises.

As CSIS continues to wrestle with major change in the technological and threat landscapes, as well as the ongoing impacts of the pandemic, we face the prospect that the way in which we work must radically change over the next decade. Efforts are ongoing today to identify needs and prepare for the CSIS of tomorrow. It is anticipated that CSIS will require major investments to accommodate changes to our real property footprint, invest in new technology, and appropriately compensate our workforce while maintaining our ability to confront the sophisticated threats facing Canada.