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Find key data for the Translation Bureau for 2024–2025 (April 1 to March 31, 2025)

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About the reporting period

The majority of the data is recorded by fiscal year (April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025). However, some data is presented by calendar year (January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025). Unless otherwise specified, published data are accounted for by fiscal year.

Basic data

Table 1: Basic data
Data Date
12th-largest language services provider in the world (CSA Research ranking) table 1 note 1 March 31, 2025
24th-largest language services provider in the world (Nimdzi Insights ranking) table 1 note 2 March 31, 2025
1,269 employees table 1 note 3 March 31, 2025

730 translators table 1 note 4

73 interpreters table 1 note 5

31 terminologists table 1 note 6

 March 31, 2025
435 employees (administrative services, procurement services, policy services, corporate services, etc.) March 31, 2025

Table 1 Notes

Table 1 Note 1

CSA Research (formerly Common Sense Advisory) is an independent market research firm specializing in the language services, translation and interpretation industry. The 2025 ranking is based on data from fiscal year 2024–2025.

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Table 1 Note 2

Nimdzi Insights is an international market research and consulting firm that specializes in language services and technologies. The 2025 ranking is based on data from fiscal year 2024–2025.

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Table 1 Note 3

Includes active employees who are seconded to another department, employees on unpaid leave and employees pending transfer in. Excludes employees who are seconded within PSPC and employees pending transfer out.

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Table 1 Note 4

Includes active and non-active translators working in every language (including foreign languages) and managers who do not translate.

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Table 1 Note 5

Includes active and non-active interpreters working in every language (including sign languages and foreign languages) and managers who do not interpret.

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Table 1 Note 6

Includes active and non-active terminologists working in every language (including foreign languages) and managers who do not do terminology work.

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Finances

Table 2: Finances
Data Total Date
Total budget for revolving fund expenditures $174.8M table 2 note 1 March 31, 2025
Actual revenue from the revolving fund $166.7M March 31, 2025
Actual expenditures from the revolving fund $163.1M March 31, 2025
Actual payroll expenditures – revolving fund $118.5M table 2 note 2 March 31, 2025
Total budget for Parliamentary interpretation and translation services expenditures $49.2M table 2 note 3 March 31, 2025
Actual payroll expenditures for Parliamentary interpretation and translation services $21.6M table 2 note 4 March 31, 2025

Table 2 Notes

Table 2 Note 1

The budget for the revolving fund corresponds to the data in the Annual Reference Level Update for 2025–2026 (update of the current year, 2024–2025). The revolving fund is a standing authorization from Parliament to make payments from the Treasury to fund activities. This authorization can be obtained through a special act or an appropriation act (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat’s Guide on Financial Arrangements and Finding Options).

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Table 2 Note 2

Revolving fund salaries include $1M in corporate costs.

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Table 2 Note 3

Budget for Parliamentary interpretation and translation services corresponds to the data in the Annual Reference Level Update for 2025–2026 (update of the current year, 2024–2025): $39.8M, plus $9.4M in additional funding under Budget 2024.

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Table 2 Note 4

Parliamentary interpretation and translation services salaries include $0.2M in corporate costs.

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Translation

Table 3: Translation
Data Date
  • Approximately 325M words translated (in all languages), including:
    • over 59.7M words translated at Parliament
    • approximately 262.7M words translated for Government of Canada departments and agencies
    • 1.41M words translated in Indigenous languages (includes both Parliament and the departments)
 March 31, 2025
Over 1,000 translation requests in Indigenous languages March 31, 2025

Interpretation

Table 4: Interpretation
Data Date
  • Over 42,700 hours of interpretation (in all languages, including sign languages), including:
    • over 20,500 hours of interpretation in Parliament
    • over 22,200 hours of departmental interpretation
    • 320 hours of interpretation in Indigenous languages
 March 31, 2025
20 requests for interpretation in Indigenous languages March 31, 2025
7,216 hours of closed captioning for Parliament March 31, 2025
11,673 hours of interpretation in sign languages, tactile interpretation and oral transliteration March 31, 2025

Interpreter accreditation exams table 5 note 1

Table 5: Interpreter accreditation exams
  October 2021 November 2022 June 2023 November 2023 May 2024 November 2024 November 2025 Total
Total number of candidates 52 71 38 55 35 21 60 332
Total number who passed 9 17 4 3 1 0 10 44
Pass rate 17.3% 23.9% 10.5% 5.5% 2.9% 0.0% 16.7% 13.3%

Table 5 Notes

Table 5 Note 1

These data are recorded by calendar year.

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Interpreter health and safety table 6 note 1

Table 6: Interpreter health and safety
  2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 (to March 31, 2026)
Number of incidents reported to Parliament (Note table 6 note 2) 62 53 85 44 43 15 11

Table 6 Notes

Table 6 Note 1

These data are recorded by calendar year.

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Table 6 Note 2

The term “incident” refers to any reported situation that interrupted interpretation services.

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Terminology

Table 7: Terminology
Data Date
Nearly 7M searches in TERMIUM Plus® and over 12M pages consulted March 31, 2025
Over 2,000 terminology searches processed March 31, 2025
Over 1,200 terms reviewed in the context of terminology committee work March 31, 2025
Over 4,900 records created and over 12,300 records updated in the Government of Canada’s terminology and linguistic data bank March 31, 2025

Language Portal of Canada

The Language Portal of Canada’s data is published in Canadian Heritage’s official languages annual reports.

Table 8: Language Portal of Canada
Data (Activities / Initiatives) 2024-2025 Date
Posts on the Portal’s social media accounts 1,840 March 31, 2025
Posts published on Our Languages blog table 8 note 1 46 March 31, 2025
Views of the pages in the Portal’s Indigenous languages section Approximately 26,000 March 31, 2025
Annual budget $3.2M March 31, 2025

Table 8 Notes

Table 8 Note 1

Short text that is dated, signed and posted on a blog and whose content is entirely at the discretion of the author.

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Succession

Table 9: Succession
Data Date
Data Date

8 partnerships: table 9 note 1

  • Canadian Association of Schools of Translation (translation)
  • Laval University (interpretation)
  • McGill University (translation)
  • University of Montréal (translation)
  • University of Ottawa (interpretation and translation)
  • University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières (interpretation)
  • University of Quebec in Outaouais (terminology)
  • Saint-Boniface University (translation)
 March 31, 2025
19 scholarships awarded to interpretation students for a total of $97,000 table 9 note 2 March 31, 2025
69 student translators at the Translation Bureau table 9 note 2 March 31, 2025
Total scholarship amount awarded to universities: table 9 note 2 March 31, 2025

Table 9 Notes

Table 9 Note 1

The Translation Bureau has partnership agreements with some Canadian universities and with the Canadian Association of Schools of Translation.

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Table 9 Note 2

These data relate to summer 2024, fall 2024 and winter 2025 academic terms.

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