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title: Your primary job
description: What "primary" means in Lexpoint, where you set it, what it actually drives in your report, and the older primary marker on work history.
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audience: People managing their own Canadian immigration
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last_verified: 2026-08-27
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---
# Your primary job

"Primary" in Lexpoint means one thing: **the job offer your report treats as the one to show.** It
is a property of a [job offer](/individuals/profile/job-offers/), not of a job you have worked.

Only one offer is primary at a time.

## Setting it

On [**Profile → Job Offers**](https://my.lexpoint.io/app/profile/job-offers), the primary offer
sorts to the top of the list and carries a **Primary job** chip. Every other offer shows a **Make
primary** action.

Your ImmiReport also carries a primary-offer strip with an inline switcher, so you can change the
primary offer without leaving the report.

| Situation | What happens |
|---|---|
| You have one Canadian offer and make it primary | Allowed. |
| The offer is already primary | Nothing to switch; allowed. |
| You have more than one Canadian offer and switch primary to a different one | Requires ImmiReport Pro. The upgrade dialogue opens instead of the switch going through. |
| You delete the offer that is currently primary while others exist | Same Pro gate, because the deletion moves primary elsewhere. |

## What primary actually drives

This is the part worth being precise about, because the name suggests more than it does.

| Surface | Does it use the primary offer? |
|---|---|
| The job named on your report for provincial pathways | **Yes.** The report displays the primary offer as the selected job. |
| The **Employer eligible** switch | **Yes.** It appears only on the primary offer, and is labelled with the nominee-programme abbreviation for that offer's province. |
| Provincial eligibility checks that read a job offer | **Not necessarily.** Some read any offer in the relevant province, not specifically the primary one. |
| Provincial checks based on skilled work | **No.** Those read your [work history](/individuals/profile/work-experience/), not job offers at all. |
| Your total Canadian and foreign years | **No.** Those come from work history. |

So the primary offer is the offer your report *names*. It is not a switch that redirects every
calculation through one record. If your report shows one job but a result seems to be driven by
another, that is why.

:::note[Choosing your provincial hub's offer]
The primary-offer strip on a provincial page in your report is location-aware. If your primary offer
is in one province and you also hold an offer in the province you are looking at, the strip says so
and offers the switch.
:::

## The Primary job chip on work experience

The [work experience](/individuals/profile/work-experience/) list also shows a **Primary job** chip
on one job, and sorts that job to the top. This is a separate, older marker on your work history.

There is no control anywhere in the profile to set or clear it — the chip reflects data already on
the record. New jobs you add are not marked primary. If you are looking for the primary you can
actually choose, it is the job offer one above.

## Related

- [Job offers](/individuals/profile/job-offers/) — where the primary offer is set and what each field means
- [Work experience](/individuals/profile/work-experience/) — the source of the skilled-work totals
- [How your profile is used](/individuals/profile/how-your-profile-is-used/) — which screens read which records

## Frequently asked questions

### Where do I set my primary job?

On the job offers list. Any offer that is not currently primary shows a Make primary action. There is no equivalent control on work experience.

### Does the primary offer decide whether I am eligible for a province's programme?

Not on its own. The primary offer names the offer your report displays for provincial pathways, but eligibility checks also read your work history and, for some checks, any offer in the relevant province — not only the primary one.

### Why does switching primary ask me to upgrade?

Your first Canadian offer becomes primary at no cost. Changing which of several offers is primary is an ImmiReport Pro feature.