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Energy differences between frozen core and all electrons correlated.
MP2, MP3, MP4, B2PLYP, CCSD, and CCSD(T)

For CH3Cl+ (Methyl chloride cation)

Energies in Hartree
Methods with standard basis sets
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000492 -0.005866 -0.013285 -0.003887 -0.014449 -0.014996 -0.015642 -0.067449 -0.067917 -0.027653 -0.117069 -0.044194 -0.008621   -0.090858 -0.010128 -0.054622 -0.092708 -0.010486 -0.056435
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000152 -0.001780 -0.004005 -0.001177 -0.004331 -0.004485 -0.004678 -0.019418 -0.019558 -0.008220 -0.033954 -0.012870 -0.002612 -0.014601   -0.003062 -0.016081   -0.003169 -0.016595
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.013777           -0.116598         -0.009371 -0.054376      
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.013776           -0.116574       -0.091380 -0.009365 -0.054361      
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ