Free tool · grid checked 20 July 2026

Express Entry CRS calculator, and how to check it

Work out your Comprehensive Ranking System score against the grid as it stands today — then test our arithmetic against IRCC’s own calculator. We will show you how.

This is an unofficial estimate

We rebuild this from IRCC’s published grid and check it by hand — last checked 20 July 2026. It is not run by IRCC and it is not advice. Before you rely on a number, run it through IRCC’s own calculator. If the two disagree, IRCC is right and we want to know about it.

About you

Marital status

Your age

Highest level of education

Language

Language is the single biggest lever in the whole grid. It is usually the cheapest points to buy back.

Your first official language

Which test did you take?

Your test scores

Speaking

Listening

Reading

Writing

Do you have a second official language test?

Work experience

Skilled work experience IN Canada

Paid, full-time (or equivalent part-time) skilled work, done while authorised to work in Canada.

Skilled work experience OUTSIDE Canada

Do you hold a Canadian certificate of qualification in a trade?

This is issued by a Canadian province or territory after assessment — not a foreign trade certificate.

Extra points

Do you have a provincial or territorial nomination?

Worth more than everything else in the grid combined. Almost nobody has one at this stage.

Do you have a sibling in Canada who is a citizen or permanent resident?

A brother or sister — including half- or step-sibling — of you or your spouse, living in Canada.

Did you study in Canada?

Express Entry is not the route we mainly file, and we will say so if it isn’t yours. A score here is an arithmetic estimate from the answers you gave — it is not an assessment of your eligibility, not advice, and not a prediction of any outcome. Grid last checked by hand on 20 July 2026.

What changed

The CRS bonus for a job offer was removed

On 25 March 2025 IRCC stopped awarding the arranged-employment bonus — previously 50 or 200 points depending on the occupation.

If you have been told your score sits comfortably above the cut-off because of a job offer, it is worth recalculating. People have paid real money for LMIA-backed offers partly for points that no longer apply to the CRS.

Be careful with the opposite mistake too. A job offer was not deleted from Canadian immigration scoring altogether — it still earns up to 10 points on the Federal Skilled Worker 67-point eligibility grid, and it can still matter for some provincial streams. Only the CRS bonus went.

IRCC called the removal temporary and has not set an end date. It has since signalled an interest in reintroducing job-offer points for high-wage occupations only, and consulted on it in 2026 — but nothing is settled: no values, no date, and any change has to appear in the Canada Gazette first. We would not plan around the points coming back.

How to test any CRS calculator, including this one

Run it twice with identical answers, changing only the job-offer question. If your total moves, that tool is still applying a rule IRCC removed in March 2025. Do it to ours. We would rather you checked than trusted us.

Where the points actually are

Language is the biggest lever most people can still pull, and it is usually the cheapest. Retaking a test to move up a CLB band across all four abilities moves a score more than almost anything else within your control — a provincial nomination aside, and those are not something you simply decide to obtain.

Cross-check on IRCC’s calculator Or check the work-permit route

Questions

Before you rely on a number

Why is my score different from another calculator?

The most common reason is job-offer points. On 25 March 2025 IRCC stopped awarding the CRS bonus for arranged employment — previously 50 or 200 points depending on the occupation. If a calculator still adds points for a job offer, it is applying a rule that no longer exists. You can test that yourself: run any calculator twice with identical answers, changing only the job-offer question. If the total moves, that tool is out of date. Run the same test on ours.

So a job offer counts for nothing now?

Not quite, and this is a distinction worth getting right. What was removed was the CRS bonus — the score that ranks you inside the Express Entry pool. Arranged employment still earns up to 10 points on the separate Federal Skilled Worker 67-point eligibility grid, which decides whether you qualify at all. A calculator showing "arranged employment — 10 points" on the 67-point grid is correct, not stale. A job offer can also still matter for some provincial streams.

What score do I need?

There is no fixed number. The cut-off changes with almost every round of invitations and differs between general draws and category-based draws. Anyone quoting you a single guaranteed number is guessing. IRCC publishes the result of each round, and that is the only honest place to look.

Is this the official calculator?

No, and you should not treat it as one. We rebuild the grid from IRCC’s published tables and check it by hand. Run your numbers through IRCC’s own calculator before relying on them — if the two disagree, IRCC is right.

My score is low. Is that the end of it?

No. Express Entry is one route among several, and it is not the one we mainly file. A low CRS score often means your time is better spent on a work-permit route than on chasing points you cannot realistically gain.

Can you guarantee an invitation if I improve my score?

No. Nobody can. Improving your language scores genuinely does move the number — it is the biggest lever in the grid — but an invitation depends on the draws that actually happen, which are decided by IRCC.

A number isn’t a plan

Knowing your score is the easy part

What matters is whether Express Entry is your route at all — and if it isn’t, which one is. That is worth a proper conversation.

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