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 ranks registrations for the province's Skilled Worker stream (the Health Authority stream takes direct applications with no registration), and it works alongside the faster Express Entry BC (EEBC) option. For a fuller walkthrough of every B.C. pathway, read our BC PNP guide or the broader Provincial Nominee Program overview. Planning for Alberta instead? Alberta ranks its Expression of Interest pool on its own grid, so use our Alberta PNP points calculator for that province.

BC PNP SIRS points grid 2026: every factor and band

The BC PNP Skills Immigration Registration System awards a maximum of 200 points: up to 120 for human capital factors and up to 80 for economic factors tied to your B.C. job offer. The tables below reproduce every factor and point value in Part 8 of the BC PNP Skills Immigration Program Guide (edition effective June 10, 2026), in the guide's own wording, which we last checked on October 13, 2026. The calculator above scores the same values.

Human capital factors (maximum 120 points)

Directly related work experience (maximum 40 points)

Directly related experience is paid work under the same NOC code as your B.C. job offer, in Canada or abroad, within the last 10 years. Part-time work counts at 50% of its duration. The Canada bonus needs 12 months at 30 hours a week or more (or 24 months below 30 hours) while authorized to work in Canada, and the B.C. bonus needs you to be working full-time now, in the same NOC, for the employer in your registration.

Highest level of education (maximum 40 points)

Partial completion is not recognized, the program must have lasted more than six months, and distance-learning programs from a Canadian institution earn no education points. A post-graduate certificate or diploma counts only if a bachelor's degree was required to enter it. The 5 designation points apply when your job offer is in one of these occupations and you hold the matching B.C. designation:

Language proficiency in English or French (maximum 40 points)

You claim language points only with valid test results. Check your level with our CLB calculator before you enter it.

Economic factors (maximum 80 points)

Hourly wage of the B.C. job offer (maximum 55 points)

B.C. scores only the hourly rate in your job offer, one point per whole dollar from $16.00. If the offer states an annual salary, divide it by 52 weeks and then by your weekly hours, which must be between 30 and 40. Bonuses, commissions, profit sharing, tips, overtime, housing allowances and room and board are not part of the wage. Every band:

Area of employment within B.C. (maximum 25 points)

Regional experience means at least one year of full-time paid work in Area 2 or 3 in the 5 years before you register. Regional alumni means you graduated, within 3 years before you register, from a public B.C. post-secondary institution outside Metro Vancouver that you attended while living outside Metro Vancouver, in a program of at least 8 months. If you work from home, your area is set by your home address.

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 131 and 136 points in every round since May 14, 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 131 to 138 has cleared the general points-based selection in 2026, but the registration pool shows why that bar is hard to reach: only 203 of the 7,695 registrations in the pool on October 6, 2026 scored 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. Every BC PNP draw of 2026, with the registration pool by score band, is on our draws tracker.

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 or held in every round since May, 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 131 can still be invited if the wage clears the bar. The floor moves with each round, $52 an hour and $105,000 a year in September 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 on this page, 131 to 136 for the general points-based round since May 14, and much lower for a Care or Build priority.

Worked examples: three BC PNP SIRS scores, line by line

The three profiles below score 83, 112 and 125 out of 200 on the same grid the calculator uses, factor by factor, so you can reproduce every total by entering the same answers above. They are illustrations, not real applicants, and the comparison with the latest round updates whenever B.C. publishes a new one.

Example 1 shows why the priority matters as much as the score: 83 is far below the 131-point Innovate line, but above the 76 minimum of the October 8, 2026 Care: Health round if the occupation is a priority health role. Example 2 never reaches Example 1's education score, but a higher wage, a job outside Metro Vancouver and a year of Canadian experience carry the total to 112. 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

   BC estimates about three months to decide around 80% of complete nomination applications. 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, IRCC's published processing time is about 7 months for an Express Entry nominee and about 13 months for a base (non-Express Entry) nomination (data updated 9 October 2026). 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 B.C. job offer and your timeline and fees. To start, send us your details and we can 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.