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9. Conclusion—Total Compensation in the Core Public Service and Separate Employer Domains

By way of summary, Table 2076 pulls together the various elements of total compensation in the combined core public service and separate employer domains for three key years:

1990–91, which is the starting year for most of our analysis, and the last fiscal year before the freezes of the early 1990s set in,
1997–98, which was the low point for employment and total compensation following Program Review; and
2002–03, which was the last year for which complete information was available for this Report.

From this summary and our previous analysis, it is clear that the two principal drivers of expenditure growth were salaries and wages and employer pension contributions. Together these grew from 1990–91 to 2002–03 by $4.6 billion, or 88% of the total increase. For the period from 1997–98 to 2002–03, these two components grew by $5.2 billion, an almost identical 87% of total growth.

With this, we conclude our analysis of total compensation in the combined core public service and the separate employer domains. We now shift our focus to the Canadian Forces domain.

Table 2076 Evolution of total compensation for the combined Treasury Board as employer and separate employer domain, 1990–91, 1997–98 and 2002–03
EMPLOYEE BENEFIT Core public service and separate employer domains	EMPLOYER COST ($ billions)
	1990–91*	1997–98	2002–03
Salaries and wages (Regular payroll)	9.10	8.20	12.50
Performance pay—lump sums only	0.02	0.02	0.06
Terminable allowances and other allowances & premiums	0.35 ^(93–94)	0.30	0.53
Overtime premiums	0.29	0.21	0.35
Retroactive payments**	0.25	0.25	0.25
Payroll deductions –CPP/QPP –EI –Provincial health premiums	0.32	0.41	0.65
Pensions	0.56	0.83	1.8
Life and Disability Insurances: –Supplementary Death Benefit –PSMIP Life Insurance –Workers' Compensation –Disability Insurance –PSMIP Long-Term Disability	0.20	0.18	0.21
Health and Dental Plans: –Provincial health payroll taxes –Public Service Health Care Plan (PSHCP) –Dental Care Plan (DCP) –Quebec Sales Tax	0.40 ^(93–94)	0.38	0.55
Severance pay	0.12	0.23	0.12
Cash-out in lieu of leave	0.04^(93–94)	0.03^(98–99)	0.04***
Totals	11.60	11.00	17.00
* Some of the figures included are for the closest years for which data was available. Most pertinently, various numbers attributed to 1990–91 are in fact data related to 1991–92, 1993–94 and in one case 1989–90. Applies to previous fiscal years; included in total as typical multi-year amount. * Figure includes only core public service domain data.