See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred SourceThis advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Meanwhile, the same records showed departments barely met half of their own performance targets and only 0.14%, or just 596 employees, took a pay reduction. “Federal bureaucrats shouldn’t feel entitled to more money every year just because they’re on the taxpayer payroll.” The CTF says about 385,000 federal employees took a pay raise in 2024 and the government handed out more than one million pay raises between 2020 and 2023. The federation says the government has continually refused to disclose how much these pay hikes cost taxpayers.