Pay cuts were seen by fewer than one per cent of public service employees, while figures show more than a quarter of goals not being met
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The federal government gave pay raises to more than 330,000 bureaucrats last year, according to recently published information obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) under an access-to-information request.
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The numbers show that 78 per cent of federal workers received a pay raise in 2025, and that fewer than one seventh of one per cent saw their wages drop, a figure the CTF says amounts to the government having “rubber stamped” those increases.
Meanwhile, the government’s own figures show that almost a third of its departments did not meet their performance targets in 2025, while almost 10 per cent did not have data available on whether or not they did.
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