Canada - Compensation of employees

Compensation of employees (current LCU)

The value for Compensation of employees (current LCU) in Canada was 44,018,000,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 29 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 44,018,000,000 in 2019 and a minimum value of 17,184,000,000 in 1997.

Definition: Compensation of employees consists of all payments in cash, as well as in kind (such as food and housing), to employees in return for services rendered, and government contributions to social insurance schemes such as social security and pensions that provide benefits to employees.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

Year Value
1990 17,611,000,000
1991 18,592,000,000
1992 18,967,000,000
1993 18,647,000,000
1994 18,607,000,000
1995 18,675,000,000
1996 17,738,000,000
1997 17,184,000,000
1998 17,444,000,000
1999 18,400,000,000
2000 21,526,000,000
2001 20,979,000,000
2002 23,208,000,000
2003 24,595,000,000
2004 25,156,000,000
2005 27,102,000,000
2006 28,404,000,000
2007 29,772,000,000
2008 31,984,000,000
2009 35,037,000,000
2010 35,643,000,000
2011 37,416,000,000
2012 36,899,000,000
2013 38,958,000,000
2014 37,926,000,000
2015 36,443,000,000
2016 36,919,000,000
2017 40,901,000,000
2018 42,571,000,000
2019 44,018,000,000

Compensation of employees (% of expense)

Compensation of employees (% of expense) in Canada was 10.52 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 29 years was 11.99 in 2013, while its lowest value was 9.19 in 1998.

Definition: Compensation of employees consists of all payments in cash, as well as in kind (such as food and housing), to employees in return for services rendered, and government contributions to social insurance schemes such as social security and pensions that provide benefits to employees.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also:

Year Value
1990 10.51
1991 10.44
1992 10.34
1993 9.93
1994 9.89
1995 9.58
1996 9.23
1997 9.30
1998 9.19
1999 9.24
2000 10.37
2001 9.80
2002 10.82
2003 10.87
2004 10.91
2005 10.70
2006 11.15
2007 11.12
2008 11.30
2009 11.83
2010 11.21
2011 11.82
2012 11.53
2013 11.99
2014 11.59
2015 10.73
2016 10.42
2017 10.85
2018 10.86
2019 10.52

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance