Chef — Victorian Points Test
What this occupation scores, what it is ranked against, and the highest total it can reach on Victoria’s points test for the subclass 190 and 491 visas.
Skill level is worked out from the ANZSCO code
Chef is ANZSCO skill level 2. On the Victorian Points Test, only skill level 1 occupations score points for this factor — 50 of them. Levels 2 and 3 score zero. That means this occupation scores 0 here, and tops out 50 points below a skill level 1 occupation.
What you are ranked against
Chef is not on Victoria’s 2026–27 priority list. It is still eligible — Registrations of Interest in any eligible occupation can be invited — but only through the most competitive stream, ranked against the whole pool rather than within a smaller group.
The highest total this occupation can reach
The Victorian Points Test is scored out of 950. For Chef the ceiling is 900.
There is a second ceiling worth knowing about: the earnings factor counts only current skilled employment in Victoria, and it is worth up to 150 points. If you are applying from outside Victoria, or are not in skilled work here, your realistic maximum is 750.
There is no pass mark
Victoria does not publish a score you need to reach. It ranks every Registration of Interest from highest to lowest and invites from the top down in each round, so the only thing that matters is how your total compares with everyone else nominating Chef. You also need at least 65 points on the separate federal SkillSelect test.
On the MLTSSL skilled list. See also the full Victorian Points Test tables and Victoria’s priority occupations.