How this CRS score calculator works

Sources

The tables were checked against these pages on October 26, 2026:

• Comprehensive Ranking System criteria for age, education, language, Canadian work length, spouse factors, skill transferability, and additional points. That page still describes the grid before November 3, 2026, including Canadian work experience inside the core factors and no job-offer points.
• 2026 changes to Canadian work experience and job offers for the Labour Market Integration factor, the length table, the 70 / 40 / 20 experience bands, and the 100 / 70 / 50 offer bands.
• IRCC backgrounder on high-wage occupations for the same factor, including the statement that the two options are not combined.
• High-wage occupations for the 186 NOC codes in the lookup. The page says the list takes effect on November 3, 2026, and is based on 2023 to 2025 data.
• Ministerial Instructions for Express Entry for the 600-point cap on additional factors (section 8(2)(d)), the French points in section 32 (25, plus 25 more when English is CLB 5 or higher on every ability), and the Canadian-study points in section 30. The provincial nomination instructions say the same thing about the cap: other additional points are not stacked on a nomination.

Two totals from one profile

The current-grid total uses the criteria page as published on October 26, 2026. Canadian work length is inside the core factors. High-wage months and the job-offer level add nothing.

The November 3 total uses the same age, education, language, spouse, transferability, and additional points. It removes the core Canadian-work points and adds the Labour Market Integration award instead. That award is the higher of:

• length points plus high-wage experience points, or
• job-offer points.

Relative to the current grid, the difference is the new award minus the length points already in the old total. Because the award is at least the length points, that difference is zero or positive for the profiles this calculator can express. You do not keep the length points in the core section and also receive them inside the new factor.

The Ministerial Instructions still in force on October 26, 2026 allocate 1,200 points and keep Canadian work inside the core maximum. They do not yet republish that allocation for Labour Market Integration. This calculator follows the changes page for the new factor and does not force the pre-change 1,200 ceiling onto the November 3 total. With a spouse, that factor stops at 140. Without one, it stops at 150.

High-wage experience uses one band. Twelve months at 2× is 70. If that is not met, twelve months combined at 1.5× or above is 40, and months at 2× count toward that twelve. If that is not met, twelve months combined at 1.3× or above is 20. Under one year of Canadian work, the high-wage band is 0 even if the month boxes say otherwise.

See the changes page for the tables this logic uses.

Other scoring choices

• An accompanying spouse uses the lower core tables and can add up to 40 points. A spouse who is not accompanying you, or who is a citizen or permanent resident, uses the single-applicant tables. Spouse inputs are ignored in that case.
• First-language points are per ability. Second-language points are per ability and then capped at 22 with an accompanying spouse, or 24 without one.
• French additional points look at all four French abilities and all four English abilities. They are added on top of ordinary language points, inside the 600-point additional cap. NCLC 7 or higher on every French ability is 25 points. English at CLB 5 or higher on every ability adds 25 more, for 50. No English test, English at CLB 4 or lower, or a mix of English abilities keeps the 25. It does not drop to 0.
• Skill transferability uses the first official language and the year bands, not the high-wage bonus. Education combinations and foreign-work combinations are each capped at 50. A certificate of qualification is capped at 50. The section is capped at 100.
• A bachelor's degree, or another single credential of one year or longer, uses the 13 / 25 transferability rows. Two or more credentials with one of them three years or longer, a master's or professional degree, and a doctorate use the 25 / 50 rows.
• Canadian study points are 15 for a one- or two-year credential, and 30 for a program of three years or longer or for a Canadian master's, professional degree, or doctorate. A one-year master's is the 30-point row. The points are not inferred from the separate education dropdown, because that dropdown may be a foreign credential.
• Sibling, French, Canadian study, and a provincial nomination are added together and then capped at 600. A nomination is 600 by itself, so the other rows in that section do not increase the total further. The criteria page and section 8(2)(d) of the Ministerial Instructions both set that maximum.

What this tool does not model

• Whether you qualify for Canadian Experience Class, Federal Skilled Worker, Federal Skilled Trades, or a provincial stream.
• Whether a Canadian credential meets the study conditions in the Ministerial Instructions, including eight months of full-time study while physically in Canada, an eligible institution, and the exclusions for programs that are mostly language training or distance learning. You choose the 15-point or 30-point row.
• Whether a job offer is genuine, full-time, or long enough, or whether an officer would accept it.
• Special Canadian-experience rules for some physicians in publicly funded roles.
• Hour-by-hour overlap. You enter full-time-equivalent months. IRCC counts overlapping jobs only up to 30 hours in a week.
• Which educational credential assessment result IRCC would use. You choose the education level.
• Converting IELTS, CELPIP, TEF, or TCF scores into CLB or NCLC. Use the equivalency chart linked from the form.
• A live feed of the high-wage list. The lookup is a transcription. If IRCC adds or removes a NOC, this site is wrong until that transcription is updated. Search does not guess a code that is missing.