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Where a Alabama journeyman electrician license transfers

1 documented state waive the exam for Alabama journeymans. 16 review by endorsement, 17 credit your hours, 0 give no credit.

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Alabama journeyman electrician · “Journeyman Electrician”

State license plus local requirements

Verified September 15, 2026· 5 sources

Issued by Alabama Board of Electrical Contractors

Alabama issues a statewide Journeyman Electrician license through the Alabama Board of Electrical Contractors. A new applicant must document at least 8,000 hours of experience installing electrical wiring, apparatus or equipment (up to 2,000 hours may be substituted with approved education or apprenticeship) and pass the journeyman exam administered by Prov, either the Alabama exam or the NASCLA Portable Journeyman exam ($115 either way); the license fee is $35 and it renews annually for $35. Exams currently reference the 2023 NEC and will move to the 2026 NEC on January 1, 2027. Alabama law also lets counties and municipalities license and examine journeymen for work inside their boundaries, but a statewide Board license is deemed qualifying in every county and municipality, and journeymen employed by a Board licensee are exempt from local licensing. The Board's only journeyman reciprocity partner is Texas; every other out-of-state journeyman must qualify by documented experience and take the Alabama exam.

How local licensing works in Alabama

Ala. Code §34-36-13(a) requires a journeyman to hold a license 'from the board or from the county or municipality where the electrical contracting work is being performed', and §34-36-13(b)(2) preserves the authority of counties and municipalities to require their own examinations. A holder of a valid statewide Board license is deemed qualified and must be allowed to work in any county or municipality on proof of the license, subject to the local building permit and business license. Local journeyman cards therefore exist only as a substitute for the state license within the issuing jurisdiction; the Board's reciprocity applies only to state-issued licenses, and no Alabama city or county reciprocity rule was verified from an official page.

Exam waived

Every destination

Reciprocity 1Endorsement 16Experience credit 17Not applicable 16
Every state's rule for a Alabama license
StateMechanismNoteVerified
AlaskaEndorsement2026-09-15
ArizonaNot applicableno state license at this level2026-09-14
ArkansasExperience credit2026-09-15
CaliforniaExperience credit2026-09-15
ColoradoEndorsement2026-09-14
ConnecticutEndorsement2026-09-15
DelawareEndorsement2026-09-15
District of ColumbiaEndorsement2026-09-15
FloridaNot applicableno state license at this level2026-09-15
GeorgiaNot applicableno state license at this level2026-09-15
HawaiiExperience credit2026-09-15
IdahoExperience credit2026-09-14
IllinoisNot applicableno state license at this level2026-09-14
IndianaNot applicableno state license at this level2026-09-15
IowaEndorsement2026-09-15
KansasNot applicableno state license at this level2026-09-15
KentuckyExperience credit2026-09-15
LouisianaNot applicableno state license at this level2026-09-15
MaineEndorsement2026-09-15
MarylandExperience credit2026-09-15
MassachusettsExperience credit2026-09-15
MichiganExperience credit2026-09-15
MinnesotaExperience credit2026-09-15
MississippiNot applicableno state license at this level2026-09-15
MissouriNot applicableno state license at this level2026-09-15
MontanaEndorsementexplicit agreement2026-09-15
NebraskaEndorsement2026-09-15
NevadaNot applicableno state license at this level2026-09-15
New HampshireExperience credit2026-09-15
New JerseyEndorsement2026-09-15
New MexicoExperience credit2026-09-15
New YorkNot applicableno state license at this level2026-09-15
North CarolinaNot applicableno state license at this level2026-09-15
North DakotaExperience credit2026-09-15
OhioNot applicableno state license at this level2026-09-15
OklahomaEndorsement2026-09-15
OregonExperience credit2026-09-14
PennsylvaniaNot applicableno state license at this level2026-09-15
Rhode IslandExperience credit2026-09-15
South CarolinaNot applicableno state license at this level2026-09-15
South DakotaEndorsement2026-09-15
TennesseeNot applicableno state license at this level2026-09-15
TexasReciprocityexplicit agreement2026-09-14
UtahEndorsementexplicit agreement2026-09-14
VermontEndorsement2026-09-15
VirginiaEndorsement2026-09-15
WashingtonExperience credit2026-09-14
West VirginiaEndorsement2026-09-15
WisconsinExperience credit2026-09-15
WyomingExperience credit2026-09-15

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