Canadian Public Service Employees with Potential Pay Inaccuracies

A count of individual employees from departments and agencies served by the Pay Centre who have outstanding financial cases in the backlog. The data is provided by Public Services and Procurement Canada and was last updated on 2026-04-09. Cases are defined as transactions unprocessed for more than 45 days past service standards, which are known to generate pay inaccuracies.

Use Cases

• Monitor payroll processing backlog trends based on the count of employees with outstanding cases.
• Assess potential financial impacts on employees based on the description of cases affecting pay accuracy.
• Analyze departmental service delivery performance based on data limited to Pay Centre-served agencies.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the authoritative government department, Public Services and Procurement Canada.
• Provides a specific operational metric (employee count) for a defined problem (cases >45 days old).
• Available in multiple open formats (XML, CSV, HTML) under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal or source bias inherent to the Pay Centre's specific scope.

Provenance

Source

Public Services and Procurement Canada

Collection Method

Likely administrative data from the Pay Centre's case management system.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 16:34:25.270199; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Canada (departments and agencies served by the Pay Centre)