British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP) – Statistical Report：Skills Immigration (SI)（2）
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3.5%
Regional Distribution
The primary destination for SI nominees is the Mainland/Southwest development region, which hosted 85.1% of Skills Immigration nominees in 2021. Most of them (76.8% of all Skills Immigration nominees) went to the Metro Vancouver Regional District, which is home to many of the jobs that immigrants are needed to fill.
The next three charts place a sharper focus on how the Mainland/Southwest region and the Metro Vancouver Regional District nominees can be further broken down.
Salary
Salary information about 2021 SI nominees can be seen in the table below.1 Both average and median salary data is included, although the median data gives the most accurate indication of what the typical salaries are for each category.
| Category of Nominee Average 2021 Salary Median 2021 Salary | ||
| EEBC – Skilled Worker | $81,167 | $66,560 |
| Skilled Worker | $74,495 | $61,500 |
| EEBC – International Graduate | $53,315 | $49,920 |
| International Graduate | $50,070 | $47,008 |
| Entry Level and Semi-Skilled | $56,921 | $62,855 |
As the charts on the next page illustrate, SI nominee salaries have generally risen in recent years. In 2021, there were modest decreases in average and median salary in most BC PNP categories, likely in part because of the temporary increase in the availability of opportunities to apply directly to the federal government for some of the highest-paid candidates in British Columbia for permanent residency.
1 For salary calculations, International Post-Graduates, EEBC – International Post-Graduates, Health Care Professionals and EEBC – Health Care Professionals have been excluded. Average salaries are found by simply dividing the sum of all the salaries by the total number of salary earners. Median salary data is found by identifying the middle number in the sequence of salary numbers when it is ordered from lowest to highest (or vice versa).
