BC PNP points calculator

What your score is compared with

Not a pass mark, because there is none, and not a single cutoff either. British Columbia holds separate draws for separate groups, and each has its own minimum. These are the 33 selections it has published from 6 May 2026 to 24 September 2026, newest first. Find the type of draw your job belongs to and read down it.

The other comparison is with everyone else who has registered. As of 1 September 2026 the pool held 8,013 registrations, and British Columbia publishes how many sit in each range of scores. It publishes ranges, not ranks, so a score can be placed in a band and no more precisely than that.

The pool figures are older than the newest draws above: they were counted on 1 September 2026, before the seven selections held since, so the registrations those draws invited are still in them.

Some invitations carry no minimum score

A calculator that hands you a number implies the number decides. It does not always. On 24 September 2026, in its Innovate: High Economic Impact draw, British Columbia invited 426 registrations on this test alone: Minimum wage of $52/hour and $105,000/year, and NOC 0, 1, 2, or 3. The minimum score for that selection is printed as N/A. On the same day it invited 288 more on points, at a minimum of 131.

That was not a one-off. Five of the dates in the table above carry both kinds of selection, side by side. The guide allows for it: British Columbia selects on the wage or skill level of the job offer, the occupation, education, language and other factors, and a score is one of them. So a registration below every published minimum can still be invited, and the threshold it would have to meet is set by the province at each draw, not by the grid.

What the grid does decide is the other half. If an application shows a lower score than the registration did, the guide says it may be refused where your revised registration score is below the minimum draw score at the time you were invited to apply. A generous estimate is not a harmless one.

The BC PNP points chart: five factors and their maximums

British Columbia groups them in two. Human capital factors are about you and come to 120; economic factors are about the job and come to 80. In every factor the maximum is exactly what its best answers add up to, so nothing is capped and no points are taken back.

Directly related work experience

Directly related means paid work under the same NOC code as your B.C. job offer. Work in a related occupation at the same or a higher TEER category can count as well, if you can show at application how it relates. All directly related work experience must have been obtained within the last 10 years. Part-time work counts at half its length whatever the hours were, and time on a leave of absence does not count at all, even if you stayed employed.

The two additions can be held together. The guide does not say so in words; its printed maximum of 40 can only be reached if they are. The year in Canada means at least 12 months at full-time hours, or at least 24 months below them, and only while you were authorised to work.

Highest level of education

Only your highest completed credential scores, and the study has to have been longer than six months. The addition for studying in B.C. or elsewhere in Canada follows that same credential, which is the rule most calculators get wrong: These additional points will only be awarded to the highest level of education indicated in your registration. A master's degree from outside Canada earns no addition for a diploma earned in B.C.

The professional designation addition is narrower than its name. It applies to a job in one of 11 occupation groups, with the B.C. designation that goes with that job. Registered nurses, physicians, engineers and accountants are not among them.

Language proficiency in English or French

One level scores, and it is your weakest. British Columbia takes the lowest Canadian Language Benchmark level across listening, speaking, reading and writing, so three abilities at CLB 9 and one at CLB 7 score as CLB 7. That is the opposite of Express Entry, which scores each ability and adds them. A test result has to be converted to a level first. British Columbia's guide prints test scores for CLB 4 only and points to the federal equivalency charts for every other level; the CLB calculator reads those charts.

Test results will be considered valid for the two years from the date of issuance. The result has to be valid on the day you register. For a job in NOC TEER 2, 3, 4 or 5 a test is not optional: below CLB 4 is a requirement not met, not merely a factor scoring nothing.

Hourly wage of the B.C. job offer

The largest factor, and the only one read from a number. The guide prints 56 bands, from less than $16.00 an hour to $70.00 an hour or more. When assessing your wages, the BC PNP will only consider your hourly rate of pay. The BC PNP will not consider bonuses, commissions, profit-sharing distributions, tips/gratuities, overtime wages, housing allowances, room and board, or other similar payments to be part of your wage.

If your job offer states a salary and no hourly wage, the guide converts it: To calculate your hourly wage, divide your annual wage by 52 weeks, then divide the result by the number of hours you work per week. It accepts that calculation only on 30 to 40 hours a week, and it does not say what it does with a week outside that range. This calculator does not guess: it shows no wage score and says why.

A raise is not a strategy here. Applications will not be approved where there are reasonable grounds to believe that the offered wage has been inflated or increased for the purpose of receiving a higher registration score or for meeting invitation selection factors.

Area of employment within B.C.

British Columbia sorts the province into three areas and scores the one your job is in. Your main work location is where you regularly and physically report to work, and where you can reasonably perform the job duties listed in your job offer. If you work from home, your area of employment is determined by your residential address. The area is worked out from the address when you register. The guide names the places in Area 2 and publishes no map or list of boundaries, so this calculator asks you which area applies and cannot look an address up.

Regional experience and regional alumni are two ways to earn one addition, not two additions. If you qualify for both regional experience and regional alumni points, you will only receive points for one factor (max 10 points). And neither applies to a job in Metro Vancouver: If the work location identified in your job offer is in Area 1, you are not eligible for these additional points.

“SIRS” and the registration score are the same thing

If you arrived from a page about a “SIRS score”, you are in the right place. SIRS stood for Skills Immigration Registration System, and British Columbia's guide used the name up to its edition of 14 June 2022. The next edition, effective 16 November 2022, dropped both the name and the acronym, and no edition since has used either. The guide's own words are “registration score”, set out under “Registration Scoring Factors”.

The same edition changed the scale. The maximum printed in the guide was 190 before it and has been 200 since. A page that still uses the old name is not wrong to, since it is what people search for, but it is worth checking that its numbers are not as old as its vocabulary.

BC PNP Skills Immigration Program Guide, archived editions effective 10 March 2022 to 10 June 2026 (opens in a new tab) verified 29 Sep 2026

A worked example

Someone with a job offer in Squamish, Abbotsford, Agassiz, Mission or Chilliwack, already working there, with a degree from outside Canada.

One line costs this person points without their having done anything wrong: the degree was earned abroad, so the education addition is nothing. One line is easy to miss. The year already worked in Area 2 is regional experience, and a calculator that asks only where the job is would leave it out. In the pool as of 1 September 2026, 109 falls in the 100 - 109 band, which held 1,559 registrations.

Read against the latest draw of each type: 109 is at or above the minimum printed for Temporary Rural/Remote Health Support Initiative (60), Build: Construction Trades (94), Care: Childcare (99), Care: Health (76), Care: Veterinary Care (90) and Care: Education (68), and below it for Innovate: High Economic Impact (131). That comparison says nothing unless the job is in an occupation the draw covers, which is a question for the selection factors in the table and not for the score.

What this score is, and is not

It belongs to one step. You register with British Columbia, the registration is scored, and the province may invite you to apply for a nomination. If it nominates you, you then apply to the federal government for permanent residence. The registration score ranks you for the invitation and for nothing after it.

It is not a Comprehensive Ranking System score, and the two are easy to confuse because they meet. A nomination under the Express Entry BC option is worth 600 of the 1,200 points on the federal scale. So the order runs one way: the British Columbia score helps you get the nomination, and the nomination changes your federal score. The CRS calculator scores the federal side, and the record of Express Entry draws shows what nominated candidates were invited at.

It is not an eligibility test either. The Skilled Worker stream asks for a job offer in an eligible occupation and two years of skilled work experience, and those are decided separately from the score. The Health Authority stream skips the score altogether: You do not need to register for this stream. And entrepreneur registrations are scored on a different grid with its own draws, which this calculator does not apply to.

Which edition these values come from

The BC PNP Skills Immigration Program Guide, edition effective 10 June 2026, Part 8, pages 50–60. British Columbia publishes the guide at one address that always serves the current edition, so a link alone does not say which edition a calculator read. This page says, and its values are re-read from the guide twice a month.

One thing in the document will look wrong if you open it. The page footers disagree: pages 2–25 say “effective June 10, 2026”, pages 26–63 say “effective May 28, 2026”. Part 8 is among the pages carrying the older date. The edition is the newer one, on the evidence of the guide's own list of updates and of British Columbia's archive of editions, and its scoring tables are identical to the previous edition's.

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