Average Federal Public Servant Paid Over $125K Per Year Including Benefits: PBO

Pedestrians cross Elgin Street in view of Parliament Hill in Ottawa in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

Federal public servants are paid an average of $125,300 per year including salary, benefits, and overtime, says Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Yves Giroux, who noted the wage has risen significantly over the past fiscal year.

While excluding one-time expenditures from his estimate, Giroux’s office wrote in a report published on April 4 that yearly pay per “full-time equivalent” of employees working within the federal public service increased from an average of around $117,500 in the 2019-2020 fiscal year to $125,300 in 2021-2022, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.