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

For NNS (Nitrogen sulfide)

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 cc-pV(T+d)Z aug-cc-pV(T+d)Z
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000921 -0.008943 -0.016982 -0.005719 -0.018208 -0.018208 -0.019518 -0.158010 -0.158010 -0.039620 -0.063030 -0.011538 -0.062025 -0.117313 -0.013385 -0.069082 -0.119178 -0.127638 -0.134588
MP3=FULL         -0.017014   -0.024562                        
MP4=FULL   -0.008475     -0.017290       -0.158563     -0.010640 -0.062002   -0.012467 -0.069362   -0.127306 -0.134578
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.016755           -0.063066 -0.010211 -0.060763 -0.117384 -0.011933 -0.068112 -0.119255 -0.125386 -0.132645
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.017116           -0.063850 -0.010508 -0.061829 -0.119237 -0.012290 -0.069207 -0.121126 -0.126994 -0.134292
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 cc-pV(T+d)Z aug-cc-pV(T+d)Z