Physiotherapist in Canada: your Express Entry path, step by step

Your way into the Express Entry pool

Every invitation needs a profile in the Express Entry pool. Physiotherapists usually qualify through:

• Federal Skilled Worker. Experience must be in a TEER 0, 1, 2 or 3 job; physiotherapy is TEER 1.
• Canadian Experience Class. For skilled work experience already gained in Canada.

The healthcare draws

These draws rank only people with recent experience in one of the 37 listed health and social services jobs. The panel above shows the latest one and its cut-off. You need at least 12 months of full-time work (or the same part-time) as a physiotherapist within the last 3 years. The months do not have to be in a row, and the work must match the NOC description of the job.

Getting licensed: CAPR's pathways

A licence or registration, and a competency exam, are required in every province and territory. Provincial regulatory colleges license; the Canadian Alliance of Physiotherapy Regulators (CAPR) runs the credentialling and the Canadian Physiotherapy Examination that come first.

• New in October 2026: CAPR launched the Comparability Pathway for most internationally educated physiotherapists. The previous Standard Pathway now covers only people who applied before 15 October 2026.
• The Physiotherapy Evaluation Tool (PET): Comparability and Alternative pathway applicants take it after an academic credential assessment, supervised clinical placements and a CAPR-approved Canadian healthcare course. It is a three-hour, 150-question online evaluation, and a "comparable" result lets you attempt the Canadian Physiotherapy Examination.
• Pre-Approved Pathway: for education in Australia, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom or the United States, with a licence or licence eligibility there.

What physiotherapists earn

The panel above shows Job Bank's median hourly wage for physiotherapists across Canada, with pay by province and region on Job Bank.