referencesource/electrician-licence-progression-by-state

Electrician licence progression: training hours and prerequisites by US state

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• —Last verified: 2026-08-06
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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.

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Sources

• —https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/electricians/apply/individuals/journeyman-electrician.htm
• —https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/electricians/apply/individuals/master-electrician.htm

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