Subhead:While the average full-time worker earned just over $70,000 in 2024, the number of Ottawa insiders clearing $100,000 has more than tripled since 2015.#
The Trudeau-Carney government’s bloated bureaucracy keeps getting fatter — and taxpayers are footing the bill.
According to new access to information records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF), 146,786 federal bureaucrats made more than $100,000 last year, a staggering 33% jump in just one year.
“Taxpayers can’t afford to keep bankrolling a bloated government full of overpaid paper pushers,” said CTF federal director Franco Terrazzano. “The government needs to find savings and it should start by taking air out of its ballooning bureaucracy.”
The data show 39% of all federal employees are now on the six-figure gravy train, costing Canadians at least $18.9 billion in 2024. That doesn’t even include benefits or retroactive pay hikes that are still being negotiated.
The comparison with working Canadians is stark.
