Express Entry-OINP Work Experience Calculator
Work Experience Counter
Enter the work you actually did. See how Express Entry counts it, and how Ontario counts the very same work.
Your work
Count paid hours only. Unpaid work, unpaid internships and volunteer hours do not count for either program.
Start a new period whenever your hours changed. If you worked 20 hours a week for a year and then moved to 35, that is two periods, not one.
Dates are the easiest way in if you remember when you started and finished each job. The weeks are worked out for you, and a start date in the middle of the week is handled the same as one on a Monday.
Job setup only changes the Ontario answer. Express Entry treats one job and several jobs the same way. Ontario does not, so tell it which one applied.
Did your hours change along the way? Add a period for each stretch.
How each program counts it
Full-time means 30 hours a week. So one year of full-time work is 1,560 hours, and six months is 780.
Hours are added up. Part-time hours are not scaled down. Twenty hours a week for two years gives you the same 2,080 hours as forty hours a week for one year.
There is a ceiling. Hours above 30 in any single week are dropped, so a 50-hour week is counted as 30.
Jobs held at the same time can be added together, up to that same 30-hour ceiling.
Ontario never adds up hours. It looks at each week on its own and turns it into full-time weeks:
• One job with 30 or more hours in a week = one full-time week
• Two or more jobs at the same time reaching 30 hours = one full-time week
• One job with at least 15 hours a week, held for two weeks = one full-time week
There is no sliding scale between 15 and 30. Fifteen hours a week and twenty-nine hours a week earn exactly the same credit.
Each week stands alone. A week under 15 hours is worth nothing, and it is not averaged against a longer week beside it.