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

For HOBr (Hypobromous acid)

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) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000122 -0.005125 -0.011968 -0.011651 -0.029667 -0.029822 -0.030871 -0.412444 -0.412589 -0.089582 -0.082879 -0.010135 -0.058589 -0.111238 -0.012693 -0.065014 -0.113723
MP3=FULL         -0.027795   -0.051766                    
MP4=FULL   -0.004809     -0.028648       -0.389547     -0.009484 -0.056578   -0.012029 -0.062845  
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000037 -0.001528 -0.003629 -0.003415 -0.009055 -0.009100 -0.009408 -0.120878 -0.120919 -0.027482 -0.024377 -0.003084 -0.017440   -0.003853 -0.019274  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.027831         -0.083758 -0.074918 -0.008950 -0.053484 -0.103027 -0.011343 -0.059656 -0.105364
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.028429           -0.076769 -0.009339 -0.055170 -0.105316 -0.011822 -0.061334 -0.107655
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ