British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP) – Statistical Report：Skills Immigration (SI)（2）

5.0%

3.5%

Health 2.4% 2.8% 2.5% Legislators and senior management 1.1% 1.1% 0.9% Manufacturing and utilities 1.0% 0.8% 0.8% Natural  resources, agriculture and related production 0.8% 0.9% 0.4%

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).