Since July 2021, Maryland has issued every electrician license statewide. Here is the apprentice license, the 576-hour, 8,000-hour route to journeyperson, the PSI exams, county registration, and pay.

Missouri has no statewide electrician license; cities and counties issue them. Here is how local journeyman and master certificates work, the optional state contractor license, apprenticeships, and pay.

Most states license electrical contracting businesses separately from electricians. Here is what that takes: a qualifier, insurance minimums, bonds, a business structure, and the startup costs.

Tennessee has no statewide journeyman license. Here is how the state contractor and LLE licenses work, what Nashville, Chattanooga, and other cities require, and what the 2026 switch to Prov exams means.