Electrician licence progression: training hours and prerequisites by US state
What it takes to move up the electrician licence ladder in each US state: the on-the-job training hours, the classroom hours, the licence you must already hold and for how long, and the separate hour threshold that lets you sit the exam before you qualify for the licence. One record is one licence level in one state, sourced from that state's licensing authority. Answers 'how many hours of on-the-job training for a journeyman electrician in Texas', 'journeyman electrician requirements by state', 'how do I become a master electrician', 'how many hours to take the electrician exam', and 'do my apprentice hours transfer to another state'. Texas has two thresholds that are constantly conflated — 7,000 hours to sit the exam, 8,000 hours for the licence — and master requires holding the journeyman licence for two years plus 12,000 hours, with industrial journeyman experience explicitly excluded. There is no federal electrician licence and no national board, so the comparison exists nowhere and the search results are exam-prep vendors.
The data
| Licence level | State | Issuing authority | On-the-job training hours | Hours to sit the exam | Prerequisite | How experience is proved |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Journeyman Electrician | Texas | Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) | 8,000 hours | at least 7,000 hours of on-the-job training | under the supervision of a Master Electrician licensed in Texas | Experience Verification Form signed by each supervising Master Electrician |
| Master Electrician | Texas | Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) | 12,000 hours | must have held Journeyman Electrician license for at least two years. Note that Journeyman Industrial Electrician experience may not be used to qualify for a Master Electrician license. | Experience Verification Form signed by each supervising Master Electrician |
Where this came from
Every record above links the page it was taken from and quotes the sentence that states it. These are the 2 sources this dataset was assembled from.
- tdlr.texas.govhttps://www.tdlr.texas.gov/electricians/apply/individuals/journeyman-electrician.htm
- tdlr.texas.govhttps://www.tdlr.texas.gov/electricians/apply/individuals/master-electrician.htm
Machine-readable
- data.jsonThe whole dataset — every record with its source URL and source quote.
- Open Knowledge Format bundleOne JSON object per line — every record's frontmatter and quoted span exactly as it is held here, in one fetch.
- How this is made and checkedWhat "verified against source" does and does not mean.