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

For Br2+ (bromine diatomic 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 -0.000133 -0.006741 -0.020744 -0.021128 -0.054156 -0.054156 -0.055428 -0.787419 -0.787419 -0.162279 -0.881302 -0.132156 -0.015765 -0.091996 -0.162875 -0.019820 -0.099376 -0.166206 -0.020911 -0.102581
MP3=FULL         -0.050749   -0.076596       -0.782088 -0.110553 -0.013786 -0.079493         -0.018400 -0.088917
MP4=FULL   -0.006384     -0.052664       -0.741167   -0.829342   -0.014957 -0.088074   -0.018993 -0.095133   -0.020053 -0.098170
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000045 -0.002030 -0.006331 -0.006173 -0.016605 -0.016605 -0.016977 -0.231208 -0.231208 -0.050119 -0.258857 -0.039290 -0.004865 -0.027665   -0.006093 -0.029791   -0.006422 -0.030715
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.052234           -0.815848   -0.014685 -0.085398   -0.018622 -0.092272   -0.019661 -0.095243
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.051032         -0.150982 -0.806921 -0.115451 -0.013921 -0.082109 -0.145362 -0.017655 -0.088931 -0.148466 -0.018651 -0.091888
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.052208           -0.815578 -0.119054 -0.014676 -0.085264 -0.149430 -0.018600 -0.092126 -0.152552 -0.019637 -0.095096
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