BC PNP calculator 2026: SIRS score estimator

BC PNP calculator 2026: estimate your SIRS registration score

The British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program scores every Skills Immigration registration out of 200 under the Skills Immigration Registration System (SIRS), then invites the highest-ranked registrations to apply in periodic draws. You create the registration yourself and it is ranked, not approved, at this stage. Your score is the sum of human-capital points (up to 120) and economic-factor points tied to your B.C. job offer (up to 80). This BC PNP calculator 2026 mirrors that grid, so the closer your inputs match your real profile, the more accurate your estimate.

SIRS covers the province's Skills Immigration streams, including the Skilled Worker and Health Authority streams, and it works alongside the faster Express Entry BC (EEBC) option. For a fuller walkthrough of every B.C. pathway, read our British Columbia PNP guide or the broader Provincial Nominee Program overview.

BC PNP SIRS points grid 2026: how your registration score is calculated

B.C. scores your registration out of 200 on a published points grid: up to 120 points for human capital and up to 80 points for economic factors tied to your job offer. This calculator mirrors that official grid, so the two tables below show exactly where every point comes from. B.C. moved to this 200-point grid in December 2025, and the current values are published in Part 8 of the WelcomeBC Skills Immigration Program Guide.

Add the two sections together for your SIRS registration score out of 200. Because the hourly wage alone is worth up to 55 points and a job outside Metro Vancouver can add 25 more, your job offer is the single biggest lever on the grid. This BC PNP points calculator totals these for you automatically as you answer.

Recent BC PNP SIRS cut-offs, 2026

The points-based Innovate: High Economic Impact round, the one general, all-occupation selection still open to any TEER 0 to 3 job offer, has cut off between 132 and 136 points in every round since May 2026, after the high economic impact rounds of February 4, February 11 and April 22 cut off at 138, 135 and 138. It is the closest read available on what SIRS score you need. B.C. publishes no fixed pass mark, because in 2026 it stopped running a single general draw and now invites by priority instead.

A score of 132 to 138 has cleared the general points-based selection in 2026, but the registration pool shows why that bar is hard to reach: only 223 of 8,013 registrants score 130 or above. If your estimate lands below that line, do not assume you are out of the running. Most 2026 invitations have actually gone through the Care, Build and wage-based Innovate priorities below, which invite at very different, often much lower, levels. See the full BC PNP draws tracker for every round and the registration pool by score band.

BC PNP priority categories: Care, Build and Innovate draws

B.C. invites through three priorities rather than a general draw: Care, covering childcare, health, education and veterinary occupations; Build, covering priority construction trades; and Innovate, covering high-economic-impact roles in NOC TEER 0 to 3. Each priority sets its own minimum, sometimes far below the points-based cut-off above, so which priority your occupation falls into matters as much as your score.

Childcare and health minimums have fallen in every round since May as BC works through its priority pools, construction and veterinary minimums sit below their May levels even after rising on September 10, and the Innovate wage floor has been lowered to widen the wage-based lane. If your occupation is an early childhood educator, a priority health role, a priority education role, a registered veterinary technologist or a priority construction trade, check that minimum before assuming your raw SIRS score decides your outcome. Use our NOC code finder to confirm your occupation code, then compare it against the priority lists on the BC PNP draws tracker.

The Innovate wage-based lane is worth a closer look if you have a well-paid job offer and a modest human capital score. It requires no minimum SIRS score at all, only an indeterminate, full-time offer in NOC TEER 0 to 3 at or above the current wage floor, so a candidate whose calculator estimate sits well below 132 can still be invited if the wage clears the bar. The floor moves with each round, $55 an hour and $110,000 a year in August 2026, so confirm the current figure on the draws tracker before assuming you qualify or do not.

How to use this BC PNP calculator

Using this BC PNP calculator takes about two minutes: enter the same details B.C.'s registration asks for, and the tool returns your estimated SIRS score out of 200 on screen, with the full breakdown emailed to you.

1. 01

   Enter your human-capital details

   Add your directly related work experience, education and language results. These factors are worth up to 120 of the 200 SIRS points.

2. 02

   Add your B.C. job offer

   Enter the hourly wage and the area of B.C. where the job is based. Economic factors are worth up to 80 points, and the wage alone is worth up to 55.

3. 03

   Read your estimated SIRS score

   The calculator totals both sections into a score out of 200 and emails you the full breakdown so you can compare it with recent draws.

4. 04

   Compare against the cut-offs

   Check your result against the recent BC PNP cut-offs below, 132 to 136 for the general points-based round, and much lower for a Care or Build priority.

Two worked BC PNP SIRS score examples

The two profiles below reach 83 and 112 points out of 200 on the same grid, because a $52 hourly wage and a job outside Metro Vancouver outweigh the stronger education and language scores the other profile carries. Both are illustrative examples for this calculator, not real applicants, so treat the numbers as a guide to how the grid combines rather than a benchmark to hit.

Profile A falls well short of the 132-point Innovate cut-off on human capital and a Metro Vancouver offer alone, wage and area are doing almost no work for her score. But if her occupation is a priority health role, her 83 sits above the 76 minimum of the September 10, 2026 Care: Health round without touching her human-capital points at all. Profile B never reaches Profile A's education score, but a higher wage, a job outside Metro Vancouver and a year of Canadian experience carry him past most Build: Construction Trades cut-offs and within reach of the general points-based line. This is the same trade-off we walk clients through before they register: whether to chase a marginal wage or region change, or to check whether their occupation already qualifies for a priority with a lower bar.

What happens after a BC PNP invitation to apply

An Invitation to Apply (ITA) is not a nomination and it is not a decision on your permanent residence. It is BC inviting you to submit a full nomination application within the window the invitation states. What happens next runs in three stages.

1. 01

   Submit your nomination application

   You have a fixed window from the ITA to submit a complete Skills Immigration application with your job offer, education and language evidence, and the current $1,750 provincial fee. An incomplete or late application is refused.

2. 02

   BC reviews and nominates

   A complete nomination application typically takes BC about two to three months to process. Officers check the employer, the wage, your experience and your education documents against what you registered, and this is where mismatches surface.

3. 03

   IRCC decides on permanent residence

   Once nominated, an Express Entry BC application is processed by IRCC in roughly six months; a base, paper-based nomination generally takes longer. IRCC, not BC, makes the final permanent-residence decision.

What a BC PNP case officer checks at the nomination stage

A calculator only tests the numbers you type in. Once you are invited, a case officer tests whether your paperwork actually supports them, and this is where a registration that looked strong on screen can stall. Before we file a nomination application, we check the same things an officer will:

• Job title and duties match the NOC. The offer letter has to describe duties that genuinely fit the occupation code you registered under, not just carry a matching job title. A generic title with mismatched duties is a common source of a request for more information.
• The offer is genuinely indeterminate. A contract with an end date, a renewal clause or probation language framed as conditional employment reads as term-limited, not permanent, and can sink an otherwise strong application.
• The wage must meet the regional going rate, not just minimum wage. Officers compare the offered hourly wage with the going rate for that occupation in your B.C. region, separately from the SIRS wage points the wage earns you.
• The employer is in good standing. An employer with unresolved compliance issues, or one who cannot demonstrate the business can actually support the role, puts the whole nomination at risk regardless of your personal score.
• Language and education evidence is still valid. Test results carry a two-year validity window and an Educational Credential Assessment must match the credential you registered, so a registration filed early in that window can expire before you are invited.

How to improve your BC PNP SIRS score

The four largest levers on the SIRS grid are the hourly wage of your job offer, worth one point per dollar to a maximum of 55, a job outside Metro Vancouver, worth 15 points plus a possible 10-point regional bonus, CLB 9 language across all four abilities, worth 30 points, and directly related work experience, worth up to 40 with the Canadian bonuses. Those four, plus a B.C. credential or designation, are the moves within your control:

• Negotiate a higher hourly wage. Every extra dollar of hourly wage on your job offer is worth one more point, up to 55 at $70 per hour, making it the biggest single lever on the grid.
• Take a job outside Metro Vancouver. An offer in most of B.C. (Area 3) is worth 15 points, and a regional experience or alumni connection can add a 10-point bonus.
• Raise your language score. Reaching CLB 9 across all four abilities earns the full 30 language points, and adding the other official language at CLB 4 adds a 10-point bonus.
• Build directly related and Canadian experience. Years in the same occupation as your job offer add up to 20 points, and a year of that experience in Canada adds a further 10 points.
• Use a B.C. credential or designation. Studying in B.C. adds 8 points and an eligible B.C. professional designation adds 5.

What counts as “directly related” work experience

Directly related work experience is experience whose duties substantially match the occupation named on your job offer, not merely the same general field or industry, and B.C. scores only the months where that overlap is genuine. This is where estimates go wrong most often. A project coordinator who spent three years doing general office administration cannot claim those years as directly related experience for a project management job offer, even though both roles sit in the same workplace. Before you register, line up your actual reference letters against the duties BC lists for your NOC and count only the months where the overlap is genuine, entering an inflated experience figure into any calculator, ours included, produces a score you cannot back up once BC asks for supporting documents.

Which BC PNP stream matches your score

A SIRS number only matters within the stream that uses it: the Skilled Worker stream and the Express Entry BC option are selected on this score, while the Health Authority stream takes eligible candidates directly, Entrepreneur Immigration scores a business instead, and the International Graduate stream is closed to new registrations. Check which pathway your job offer or business plan actually fits before you register.

If you do not yet have a BC job offer, Entrepreneur Immigration is the only route on this list that does not require one, every other stream needs a qualifying offer before a SIRS score matters at all. If you have an offer from a designated public health authority, skip the score race altogether and apply through Health Authority instead. We check which stream your offer and NOC code actually fit before you register in SIRS.

BC PNP SIRS score vs Express Entry CRS score: what's the difference

A BC PNP SIRS score and a federal Express Entry CRS score are separate systems that only combine through the Express Entry BC option. SIRS ranks your registration out of 200 against other BC candidates; CRS ranks your Express Entry profile out of 1,200 against the national pool. A strong SIRS score does nothing for your federal profile until BC actually nominates you, at which point an enhanced Express Entry BC nomination adds a flat 600 points to your CRS, a jump that has cleared recent federal cut-offs in almost every draw. Run both numbers separately: use this calculator for your BC registration and our free CRS calculator for your federal profile, then decide whether the base BC PNP route or the Express Entry BC route fits your situation.

Estimate your SIRS score, then get a licensed RCIC to map your pathway

Once this BC PNP calculator gives you an estimated SIRS score, the next step is matching it to the right stream, whether that is the Skilled Worker stream, the Health Authority stream, Entrepreneur Immigration or the Express Entry BC option. Wild Mountain Immigration is led by a licensed Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (RCIC) in good standing with the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants (CICC #R706497). Once you have your number, we can review your CRS score, your LMIA-based work permit options and your timeline and fees, then get started to plan your B.C. registration.

Common mistakes when using a BC PNP calculator

These are the errors we see most often in a first conversation, each one changes the total enough to put a real applicant on the wrong side of a cut-off.

• Using the retired skill-level or TEER points line.The 200-point grid in force since December 2025 gives zero direct points for your NOC TEER category, older calculators that still show a “skill level of job offer” line are scoring against a retired grid.
• Entering an annual salary instead of an hourly wage. The wage factor is scored strictly by hourly rate, up to 55 points at $70 an hour and above; converting a salary yourself, or leaving it as an annual figure, throws off the single biggest number on the grid.
• Forgetting the regional or alumni bonus. A job in Area 2 or Area 3 can add a further 10 points on top of the area score if you also have regional experience or completed a credential there, an easy few points to leave on the table.
• Treating the SIRS score like the federal CRS. The two scales run out of different totals, 200 versus 1,200, and score different things, a good SIRS number and a good CRS number are not comparable.
• Assuming a raw score decides the outcome. With most 2026 invitations going out by Care, Build or Innovate priority, an applicant in a priority occupation can be invited well below the general points-based cut-off, while a high scorer outside every priority may wait.

Avoiding these mistakes before you register is worth more than any single point on the grid. Run your numbers through this BC PNP calculator 2026, then get started with a licensed RCIC who will check your inputs against your real job offer and documents before you rely on the score.