BC PNP calculator: SIRS points 2026

A BC PNP calculator is a free tool that estimates your British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program registration score out of 200 under the Skills Immigration Registration System (SIRS). You enter your job offer's skill level and wage, where the job is in B.C., plus your work experience, education and language results, and it returns an estimated SIRS score so you can see where you stand against recent BC PNP draw cut-offs before you register. To reveal your final score you add your name and email, and we send the full breakdown to your inbox.

Your BC PNP points are the sum of human capital factors (up to 120) and economic factors (up to 80), for a maximum of 200. Human capital covers directly related work experience (up to 40, including +10 for a year of Canadian experience and +10 for currently working in B.C. for the employer), education (up to 40, with +8 for study in B.C. or +6 elsewhere in Canada, and +5 for an eligible B.C. professional designation) and language up to CLB level (up to 40, including +10 for both English and French). Economic factors come from your B.C. job offer: the hourly wage (up to 55) and the area of the job within B.C. (up to 25, with Metro Vancouver scoring 0). This calculator adds those for you instantly.

There is no fixed pass mark, only the cut-off of each draw, which changes every round. BC PNP runs general draws (Skilled Worker, International Graduate, Express Entry BC) alongside targeted draws for healthcare, childcare, construction, veterinary care and tech, and targeted draws often invite lower scores. As a guide, a SIRS score above about 105 is competitive across most general categories and a score above 130 is strong, while targeted occupation draws in priority sectors often invite lower scores.

Yes. The SIRS awards up to 25 points for the area of your job within B.C. Jobs in Metro Vancouver (Area 1) score 0 on that factor, jobs in Area 2 (Squamish, Abbotsford, Agassiz, Mission and Chilliwack) score 5, and jobs anywhere else in B.C. (Area 3) score 15, plus up to 10 more for regional work experience or being a regional graduate. A higher hourly wage or a job outside Metro Vancouver are two of the most direct ways to raise an otherwise borderline SIRS score.

For the Skills Immigration streams, a genuine, full-time, indeterminate B.C. job offer is normally required, and it drives the economic-factors section (the hourly wage and area, up to 80 of the 200 points). Without an eligible offer, this calculator scores economic factors at 0, though you can still earn human-capital points. An offer strengthens almost every BC PNP registration.

No. SIRS is British Columbia's own ranking out of 200 used to invite registrations. Your federal Express Entry CRS is a separate score. If you are invited through the Express Entry BC option and accept a provincial nomination, it adds 600 CRS points to your federal profile, which makes an Express Entry invitation highly likely (IRCC issues the actual invitations). Use our CRS calculator for the federal score.