Last Updated On 10 August 2026, 9:51 AM EDT (Toronto Time)
New OINP Calculator 2026: The Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) has completely rebuilt the way it selects and scores immigration candidates for permanent residence in the province under the new Ontario Workforce Priority Stream.
The redesigned provincial nominee program that launched this summer introduced an entirely new scoring framework that replaced every former points grid overnight.
The scoring factors cover four separate categories, and the maximum possible total depends on which pathway you are applying through.
Below, we publish a free interactive new OINP calculator built on the official scoring matrix that Ontario released for 2026.
Use it to estimate your expression of interest score before you register, then read the full breakdown of every scoring factor and how each one is weighted.
OINP Workforce Priority Stream EOI Score Calculator
Choose the answers that apply to you to estimate the points you may receive for the Workforce Priority Stream Expression of Interest scoring factors.
Applicant type
This selection changes which Ontario work-experience and wage questions apply.
Employment and labour market factors
These factors cover your NOC, wage or practice history, Canadian earnings and current legal status.
Education
Ontario requires a Canadian credential or an Educational Credential Assessment where applicable for the education-level factor.
Language
Use approved English or French test results and the lowest CLB across reading, writing, listening and speaking.
Regionalization
For job-offer applicants, use the work location in the employer’s job offer. Physicians use the Ontario practice address tied to OHIP billing-number registration.
Guide For New OINP Calculator
How The OINP Calculator Works
The OINP calculator embedded on this page mirrors the four scoring categories that Ontario uses to rank expression of interest profiles under the Workforce Priority stream.
Each category contributes a specific number of points toward your total estimated EOI score.
Job offer applicants can score a maximum of 130 points across all four categories combined.
Self-employed physicians can score up to 115 points because the hourly wage factor does not apply to their pathway.
The calculator asks you to select your applicant type first, which determines whether you see the wage and job-offer experience questions or the physician practice experience question instead.
As you answer each question, the calculator updates your estimated score in real time and shows a category-by-category breakdown at the bottom of the tool.
A sticky score bar at the top of the calculator tracks your running total and tells you how many of the applicable questions you have answered.
This is an EOI scoring calculator and not an eligibility assessment, which means it does not confirm whether you meet the stream requirements.
You must still satisfy every eligibility criterion listed on Ontario’s official Workforce Priority stream page and provide supporting documents for every point you claim.
Scoring Categories And Maximum Points
| Scoring Category | Job Offer Max | Physician Max |
| Employment and Labour Market Factors | 60 | 45 |
| Education | 20 | 20 |
| Language | 25 | 25 |
| Regionalization | 15 | 15 |
| Total Maximum | 130 | 115 |
Employment And Labour Market Factors
This is the largest scoring category in the OINP calculator, contributing up to 60 points for job offer applicants and up to 45 for self-employed physicians.
Six separate factors feed into this category, and the questions that appear depend on whether you selected “job offer applicant” or “self-employed physician.”
The first factor is your NOC TEER category, which is based on the five-digit NOC 2021 code tied to your job offer or physician application.
TEER 0 and TEER 1 occupations receive 9 points, TEER 2 and TEER 3 receive 6 points, and TEER 4 and TEER 5 receive 0 points for this factor.
The second factor is your NOC broad occupational category, which is the first digit of your five-digit NOC code.
Category 3, which covers health occupations, receives the highest allocation at 10 points.
Category 7 for trades, transport, and equipment operators receives 8 points, and Category 2 for natural and applied sciences receives 6 points.
Categories 0, 1, 4, 8, and 9 each receive 4 points, while Categories 5 and 6 covering sales, service, and arts receive 2 points each.
The third factor is the hourly wage in your Ontario job offer, which does not apply to self-employed physicians.
Wages of $40.00 per hour or higher receive the maximum 15 points, with a sliding scale down to 0 points for wages under $20.00 per hour.
The fourth factor measures your Ontario work experience, and the specific question you see depends on your applicant type and your answer.
Job offer applicants who have worked in the offered position for more than 24 months receive 18 points, scaling down to 12 points for 6 to 12 months.
If you have less than six months in the offered position, the calculator switches to a broader Ontario work experience question with a maximum of 12 points for more than 24 months of total provincial experience.
Self-employed physicians are scored on cumulative medical practice in Ontario, with 18 points for more than 24 months of practice and 0 points for less than six months.
The fifth factor is your highest qualifying Canadian annual earnings drawn from a Canada Revenue Agency Notice of Assessment within the past five years.
Earnings of $70,000 or more in a single year receive 8 points, with lower ranges scaled at 6, 4, and 0 points, respectively.
The sixth factor is your current valid legal status in Canada, with 10 points for a valid work permit and 5 points for a valid study permit.
Candidates without either a valid work permit or a valid study permit receive 0 points for this factor.
Education Scoring Factors
The education category contributes up to 20 points to your OINP score and includes two separate factors.
The first factor is your highest level of education, which can earn between 0 and 10 points.
A doctorate or a degree in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, or optometry receives 10 points at the top of the scale.
A master’s degree receives 8 points, a bachelor’s degree or university credential above or at the bachelor’s level receives 6 points, and college diplomas or trade certificates receive 5 points.
Foreign credentials must be evaluated through a valid Educational Credential Assessment to determine the Canadian equivalency.
The second factor is the number of qualifying Canadian education credentials you hold, with 10 points for more than one credential and 5 points for exactly one.
Each credential must be post-secondary, from an institution on Ontario’s eligible Canadian institutions list, and require at least one year of full-time study to complete.
Language Scoring Factors
The language category is worth up to 25 points and is measured using Canadian Language Benchmark levels from an approved English or French test.
The first language factor uses your lowest CLB level across all four abilities, meaning reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
CLB 9 or higher receives 15 points, CLB 8 receives 12 points, CLB 7 receives 8 points, CLB 6 receives 4 points, and CLB 5 or lower receives 0 points.
If you have both English and French test results, Ontario instructs you to use the test with the higher CLB level for this factor.
The second language factor awards 10 points if you have valid test results in both English and French with at least CLB 6 across all four abilities on each test.
Candidates with qualifying results in only one official language receive 5 points for this factor.
Regionalization Scoring Factor
The regionalization factor rewards candidates whose work location or physician practice is outside the Toronto metropolitan area, contributing up to 15 points.
Northern Ontario receives the highest allocation at 15 points, covering census divisions from Muskoka and Haliburton through Kenora.
Eastern Ontario, Central Ontario outside the Greater Toronto Area, and Southwestern Ontario each receive 10 points.
Locations inside the GTA but outside the City of Toronto, covering Durham, Halton, Peel, and York, receive 5 points based on the same regional definitions Ontario has used in previous draws.
The City of Toronto itself receives 0 regionalization points.
| Ontario Region | Points |
| Northern Ontario | 15 |
| Eastern Ontario | 10 |
| Central Ontario outside GTA | 10 |
| Southwestern Ontario | 10 |
| Inside GTA except Toronto | 5 |
| City of Toronto | 0 |
What Is An Expression Of Interest In Ontario Immigration
An expression of interest is a profile that candidates submit through the OINP e-Filing Portal to signal their availability and qualifications for a provincial nomination.
The EOI system is a competitive ranking mechanism where Ontario scores each profile and then issues invitations to the highest-ranked candidates in periodic draws.
Under the previous OINP structure, there were separate EOI grids for each stream, and scoring factors varied between the Foreign Worker, International Student, In-Demand Skills, Masters Graduate, and PhD Graduate pathways.
The 2026 overhaul consolidated all of those grids into a single scoring matrix with 130 possible points for job offer applicants and 115 for physicians.
Once you receive an invitation to apply, your employer must submit the application within 14 calendar days through the Employer Portal for approval of the employment position.
Ontario has stated that scoring factors used in the EOI ranking are not the same as stream eligibility criteria, and applicants must satisfy all requirements independently regardless of their point total.
How To Use This OINP Score To Plan Your Application
Ontario has not announced a cutoff score for the first Workforce Priority stream draws, but historical OINP draw data provides useful benchmarks.
Under the previous Foreign Worker stream, EOI cutoff scores ranged from the mid-50s to the low 60s in 2025 and early 2026 draws, depending on the targeted occupation and region.
International Student stream cutoffs were higher, typically landing in the 70s and low 80s.
The new scoring grid uses a completely different point structure, so those exact numbers do not carry over, but they signal that Ontario tends to set competitive thresholds rather than inviting every registered profile.
The 2026 to 2028 Immigration Levels Plan set the provincial nominee admission target at 91,500 for 2026, giving Ontario a larger nomination pool to work with this year.
Ontario already issued thousands of invitations under the old streams before retiring them, which means the remaining nomination capacity for the Workforce Priority stream through the end of 2026 may be limited.
Candidates who score in the upper range of the OINP calculator should treat the current intake window as time-sensitive and register their EOI as soon as their employer completes the portal submission.
How The OINP Score Differs From The Express Entry CRS
The OINP EOI score and the federal Comprehensive Ranking System score are two completely separate scoring systems that serve different purposes.
Your CRS score determines your ranking inside the federal Express Entry pool, while your OINP EOI score determines your ranking inside Ontario’s provincial nomination pool.
A high OINP score does not substitute for a strong CRS profile, and a high CRS score does not guarantee an Ontario nomination.
If Ontario nominates you through the Express Entry option of the Workforce Priority stream, you receive a 600-point CRS boost that virtually guarantees a federal invitation to apply for permanent residence.
Candidates who want to understand how the federal system works alongside the provincial one should review the proposed Express Entry changes that IRCC is currently consulting on for potential implementation in late 2027 or beyond.
Employer Requirements For The OINP Workforce Priority Stream
Every job offer applicant pathway under the Workforce Priority stream requires an eligible Ontario employer to register in the OINP Employer Portal and submit the job offer before the candidate can file an EOI.
The employer must have been actively operating a business in Ontario for at least three years at the time of the application.
Employers inside the Greater Toronto Area must demonstrate gross annual revenue of at least $1,000,000 in the most recent fiscal year.
Employers outside the GTA must demonstrate gross annual revenue of at least $500,000 in the most recent fiscal year.
These thresholds were part of the employer portal system introduced in July 2025 and continue to apply under the redesigned program.
Employers who previously registered in the portal do not need to register again, but they must submit a new job offer and a new application for approval of an employment position under the Workforce Priority stream.
Documents You Need To Support Your OINP Score
Ontario requires supporting documentation for every scoring factor you claim in your expression of interest, and applications that cannot substantiate claimed points face refusal.
The official applicant document checklist lists every required document by category.
For the employment factors, you need payslips; an employment letter confirming your position, wage, and start date; plus your Canada Revenue Agency Notice of Assessment for the earnings factor.
For education, you need your degree or diploma and, if your credential was earned outside Canada, a valid Educational Credential Assessment report that is less than five years old.
For language, you need valid test results from an approved English or French test that measures all four CLB abilities.
Ontario does not accept academic IELTS or One Skill Retake tests under the scoring rules published for this stream.
For regionalization, the employer’s job offer must specify the work location, which Ontario uses to assign the applicable regional score automatically.
What Happens After You Submit Your Expression Of Interest
Once your EOI is active in the system, OINP can include your profile in any upcoming draw that matches your pathway, TEER level, occupation, or region.
OINP conducts targeted draws, which means not every registered profile is considered in every round.
If you receive an invitation to apply, your employer has 14 calendar days to submit the full application package through the Employer Portal.
OINP then reviews the application against both the eligibility criteria and the claimed scoring factors before issuing or refusing the nomination.
Candidates who receive a nomination can apply directly for permanent residence through the federal Provincial Nominee Program or, if eligible, add the nomination to their Express Entry profile for the 600-point CRS boost.
OINP may also launch Phase 2 of the OINP redesign later in 2026, which is expected to introduce additional pathways for healthcare workers and entrepreneurs that operate outside the Workforce Priority stream.
How To Find Your NOC Code For The OINP Calculator
Your NOC code determines two of the six employment scoring factors in this calculator, making it one of the most consequential inputs in your entire profile.
Search your job title and main duties in the Government of Canada NOC directory to find your five-digit NOC 2021 code.
The second digit of the code tells you your TEER category, which controls whether you receive 9, 6, or 0 points for the TEER factor.
The first digit tells you your broad occupational category, which controls whether you receive between 2 and 10 points depending on the industry grouping.
Candidates who are unsure about NOC code changes taking effect in 2026 should verify their code against the current edition before submitting their EOI.
TEER 4 and 5 workers should note that while they receive 0 points for the TEER factor, they remain fully eligible for the essential worker pathway and can still accumulate competitive scores through other categories.
Ontario Workforce Priority Stream Calculator And Next Steps
The OINP calculator on this page reflects the official scoring factors that Ontario published on July 20, 2026, for the Workforce Priority stream that replaced every former OINP pathway.
Use it to estimate your score, identify which categories offer the most room for improvement, and prepare your supporting documents before the first draws are announced.
Competition for the remaining 2026 nominations is expected to be intense across all provinces, and candidates who register early with strong profiles will be positioned to receive invitations as soon as Ontario begins issuing them.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What is the maximum OINP score under the new Workforce Priority stream?
Job offer applicants can score a maximum of 130 points across employment, education, language, and regionalization factors, while self-employed physicians can score a maximum of 115 points because the hourly wage factor does not apply to their pathway.
Can I use my old OINP EOI profile in the new system?
No, Ontario withdrew all existing EOI profiles that had not received an invitation when the old system closed on June 25, 2026, and every candidate must register a fresh expression of interest through the new portal that reopened on August 4, 2026.
Does the OINP calculator tell me if I am eligible for a provincial nomination?
No, the calculator estimates your EOI score based on the published scoring factors, but eligibility is a separate determination that depends on meeting all stream requirements, including employer qualifications, work experience thresholds, language minimums, and document verification.
How often does Ontario hold Workforce Priority stream draws?
Ontario has not announced a draw schedule for the new stream yet, but under the previous system the province held draws as frequently as multiple times per month with varying occupation and region targets, and a similar pattern is expected once the new EOI pool reaches sufficient volume.
Is the OINP score the same as the Express Entry CRS score?
No, the OINP EOI score ranks your profile within Ontario’s provincial nomination system, while the CRS score ranks your profile within the federal Express Entry system, and the two use entirely different factors, scales, and maximums that are not interchangeable.
Fact-Checked: All information in this article has been verified against the Ontario Workforce Priority stream scoring factors, Ontario Regulation 422/17 on e-Laws, and the official OINP updates page on ontario.ca as of August 10, 2026.
Disclaimer: This article is published by Immigration News Canada for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal or immigration advice; consult a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant or licensed immigration lawyer for guidance specific to your situation.
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