Express Entry CRS Calculator

Your Comprehensive Ranking System score, live as you answer, with the full breakdown IRCC uses and the steps that would raise it most.

Verified against IRCC Check your score tool · Nov 3, 2026
Updated for the November 3, 2026 rules. Canadian work experience is now part of the new Labour Market Integration factor, which also covers high-wage occupation experience and high-wage job offers. Job offers no longer earn separate additional points or need an LMIA.

Example profile. Change the answers below to yours; the score updates as you go.

About you

Spouse or common-law partner
yrs
Did you earn a Canadian degree, diploma or certificate?

Language tests

Set all to
Did you also take a French test?

Work experience

Skilled work experience in Canada (last 10 years)
Skilled work experience outside Canada (last 10 years)
Certificate of qualification in a trade?

Job offer, nomination and family

Valid job offer in a high-wage occupation?

Full time, for at least one year after you become a permanent resident. No LMIA needed since November 3, 2026.

Nomination certificate from a province or territory?
Brother or sister in Canada?

Your CRS score

376of 1,270

Comprehensive Ranking System grand total, under the rules in effect from November 3, 2026.

Core / human capital factors

338 / 570

Age
110 / 110
Level of education
120 / 150
Official languages
108 / 160
First official language
108 / 136
Second official language
0 / 24
Labour market integration factor
0 / 150

Canadian work 0 + high-wage experience 0

Skill transferability factors

38 / 100

Education
13 / 50
With official language proficiency
13
With Canadian work experience
0
Foreign work experience
25 / 50
With official language proficiency
25
With Canadian work experience
0
Certificate of qualification
0 / 50

Additional points

0 / 600

Provincial nomination
0 / 600
Study in Canada
0 / 30
Sibling in Canada
0 / 15
French-language skills
0 / 50

How to raise your score

Each step on its own, worked out with your answers.

  • A job offer in a high-wage occupation (2× median wage)

    Counts in the Labour Market Integration factor if it beats your Canadian work points.

    +100

  • Get 1 year of Canadian skilled work

    Full-time (or equal part-time) in a TEER 0–3 job in Canada.

    +78

  • Take a French test (NCLC 7 or higher)

    TEF Canada or TCF Canada. French skills earn up to 50 additional points.

    +62

  • Reach CLB 9 in your first-language test

    Raise reading, writing to CLB 9.

    +53

  • Provincial or territorial nomination

    A nomination adds 600 points, usually enough for an invitation.

    +600

How we calculate

Every result on this page was checked line by line against an official tool, using the same inputs on both sides.

Verified Nov 3, 2026

Checked against

Result: 830 of 864 profiles match IRCC’s tool on every line; the other 34 are two cases where its tool differs from IRCC’s published criteria, and we follow the criteria (see limitations).

Method

  1. Decide which scale applies: “with a spouse” only if your partner is coming with you and is not a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.
  2. Core factors: points for age, education and each of the four abilities in your first and second official language tests, converted to CLB/NCLC levels.
  3. Labour Market Integration factor (new on November 3, 2026): the higher of your Canadian work points plus high-wage occupation points (20, 40 or 70), or your high-wage job offer points (50, 70 or 100).
  4. Spouse factors: your partner’s education, language test and Canadian work experience (up to 40).
  5. Skill transferability: education and foreign work experience combined with CLB 7+/9+ language results or Canadian work, plus a trade certificate of qualification (up to 100).
  6. Additional points: provincial nomination (600), French skills (25 or 50), study in Canada (15 or 30) and a sibling in Canada (15), up to 600.

Rates and rules from

Not included

  • TCF Canada at CLB 4: IRCC’s tool gives 0 first-language points; we follow the published criteria (6 points per ability).
  • French test first and PTE Core as the English test: IRCC’s tool gives a 25-point French bonus even with CLB 5+ in English; we follow the published criteria (50 points).
  • We don’t check whether you are eligible for an Express Entry program or whether a job offer or high-wage occupation qualifies; IRCC decides that.
  • IRCC’s Express Entry system calculates your official score, and its result governs.

What is a CRS score?

The Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) is the points system IRCC uses to rank Express Entry candidates, out of 1,270 points. It scores your age, education, language tests, work experience, a spouse or partner, skill combinations and additional factors such as a provincial nomination. IRCC invites the highest-ranking candidates in each round to apply for permanent residence.

How it is calculated (November 2026)

Your score adds four parts: core factors (age, education, official languages and the Labour Market Integration factor, up to 570 points without a spouse or 530 with one), spouse factors (up to 40), skill transferability (education or foreign work combined with strong language results or Canadian work, up to 100), and additional points (provincial nomination 600, French skills up to 50, Canadian study up to 30, a sibling in Canada 15; up to 600 in total).

Maximum points by factor

Maximum CRS points with and without an accompanying spouse or partner
Factor With spouse Without
Age 100 110
Level of education 140 150
Official languages (first + second) 150 160
Labour Market Integration factor (new) 140 150
Core / human capital total 530 570
Spouse factors 40 —
Skill transferability 100 100
Additional points 600 600
Maximum CRS score 1,270 1,270

Source: IRCC, Comprehensive Ranking System criteria (updated November 3, 2026).

Express Entry CRS questions

What changed in the CRS on November 3, 2026?

Canadian work experience in the core factors was replaced by the Labour Market Integration factor, worth up to 150 points (140 with a spouse). It gives you the higher of two amounts: your Canadian work points (up to 80) plus up to 70 for at least 12 months in a high-wage occupation (20, 40 or 70 points for occupations paying 1.3, 1.5 or 2 times the median wage), or points for a high-wage job offer (50, 70 or 100). Job offers no longer earn separate additional points, and they no longer need a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA). IRCC is recalculating existing profiles and paused invitation rounds for up to two weeks.

How is the CRS score calculated?

Your score adds four parts: core factors (age, education, official languages and the Labour Market Integration factor, up to 570 points without a spouse or 530 with one), spouse factors (up to 40), skill transferability (education or foreign work combined with strong language results or Canadian work, up to 100), and additional points (provincial nomination 600, French skills up to 50, Canadian study up to 30, a sibling in Canada 15; up to 600 in total).

Does having a spouse lower my CRS score?

Only if your partner is coming with you and is not a Canadian citizen or permanent resident. Then your own core factors are scored on a lower scale (up to 530 instead of 570), and your partner can add up to 40 points for education, language and Canadian work experience. If your partner is Canadian or not coming, you are scored as single.

How can I increase my CRS score?

The biggest gains usually come from a provincial nomination (600 points), higher language results (CLB 9 or more in all four abilities also unlocks skill transferability points), a French test at NCLC 7 or higher (up to 50 points), more Canadian work experience, and high-wage occupation experience or a high-wage job offer. The calculator above shows the gain from each step for your profile.

Is this the official CRS calculator?

No. It follows IRCC’s published CRS criteria and was checked against IRCC’s own Check your score tool. IRCC’s Express Entry system calculates your official score, and its result governs.

Official sources: IRCC Check your score, CRS criteria and high-wage occupations. IRCC’s Express Entry system calculates your official score, and its result governs.

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