New hires to public service drop 40 per cent last year, as promotions halved

The 'inflow' of new civil-servant hires slowed to 28,564 compared to 40,790 in 2024-25, while 11,230 federal staff got a job boost last year, down from 23,000, according to new data from the Public Service Commission.

Treasury Board President Shafqat Ali. New data about the size of the civil service shows more than one million people applied to join the ranks of the federal public service in the 2024-25 fiscal year, but that number dropped by approximately 30 per cent, totalling 733,040 by last year.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MARLO GLASS

July 16, 2026

The number of new hires, promotions, job applications, and advertised roles in the federal public service drastically dropped last year, as fresh data from the Public Service Commission offers new insight into how the bureaucracy is shrinking after years of sustained growth....

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