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

For CH3SCH3+ (dimethyl sulfide 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
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001617 -0.008429 -0.016212 -0.005769 -0.020186 -0.021308 -0.021975 -0.157270 -0.158098 -0.037737 -0.210301 -0.063010 -0.012296 -0.068092 -0.116415 -0.014442 -0.077436 -0.118762
MP3=FULL         -0.019439   -0.021214         -0.063944 -0.011384          
MP4=FULL   -0.008047     -0.019644       -0.159332   -0.211462   -0.011528 -0.068966   -0.013667 -0.078814  
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000505 -0.002571 -0.004923 -0.001755 -0.006055 -0.006378 -0.006579 -0.045259 -0.045509 -0.011199 -0.060831 -0.018345 -0.003726 -0.020084   -0.004367 -0.022745  
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.019568           -0.211087   -0.011457 -0.068756   -0.013584 -0.078579  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.019225         -0.036036 -0.209088 -0.063816 -0.011175 -0.067671 -0.117606 -0.013255 -0.077510  
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.019568           -0.211058 -0.064560 -0.011454 -0.068740 -0.119298 -0.013579 -0.078562  
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