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Moving to Oregon as a journeyman electrician: every state's rule

Oregon has reciprocity agreements with 7 states. Everyone else follows its standard out-of-state path: experience credit.

Oregon journeyman electrician · “General Journeyman Electrician (J)

Statewide license

Verified September 14, 2026· 4 sources

Issued by Oregon Building Codes Division (Department of Consumer and Business Services)

Oregon issues a statewide General Journeyman Electrician (J) license through the Building Codes Division. An applicant without a reciprocal license must document either an approved apprenticeship, or 576 classroom hours plus 8,000 hours of on-the-job experience earned outside Oregon, or 16,000 out-of-state on-the-job hours, and then pass the Oregon journeyman exam. Oregon has signed journeyman reciprocity agreements with Arkansas, Idaho, Maine, Montana, Utah, Washington and Wyoming; qualifying holders of those licenses are licensed without taking the Oregon exam. Licenses renew every three years on October 1 and require 24 hours of continuing education.

States Oregon reciprocates with

Every origin state

Reciprocity 7Experience credit 27No credit 16
Every state's path into Oregon
StateMechanismNoteVerified
AlabamaExperience credit2026-09-14
AlaskaExperience credit2026-09-14
ArizonaNo creditno state license to transfer2026-09-14
ArkansasReciprocityexplicit agreement2026-09-14
CaliforniaExperience credit2026-09-14
ColoradoExperience credit2026-09-14
ConnecticutExperience credit2026-09-14
DelawareExperience credit2026-09-14
District of ColumbiaExperience credit2026-09-14
FloridaNo creditno state license to transfer2026-09-14
GeorgiaNo creditno state license to transfer2026-09-14
HawaiiExperience credit2026-09-14
IdahoReciprocityexplicit agreement2026-09-14
IllinoisNo creditno state license to transfer2026-09-14
IndianaNo creditno state license to transfer2026-09-14
IowaExperience credit2026-09-14
KansasNo creditno state license to transfer2026-09-14
KentuckyExperience credit2026-09-14
LouisianaNo creditno state license to transfer2026-09-14
MaineReciprocityexplicit agreement2026-09-14
MarylandExperience credit2026-09-14
MassachusettsExperience credit2026-09-14
MichiganExperience credit2026-09-14
MinnesotaExperience credit2026-09-14
MississippiNo creditno state license to transfer2026-09-14
MissouriNo creditno state license to transfer2026-09-14
MontanaReciprocityexplicit agreement2026-09-14
NebraskaExperience credit2026-09-14
NevadaNo creditno state license to transfer2026-09-14
New HampshireExperience credit2026-09-14
New JerseyExperience credit2026-09-14
New MexicoExperience credit2026-09-14
New YorkNo creditno state license to transfer2026-09-14
North CarolinaNo creditno state license to transfer2026-09-14
North DakotaExperience credit2026-09-14
OhioNo creditno state license to transfer2026-09-14
OklahomaExperience credit2026-09-14
PennsylvaniaNo creditno state license to transfer2026-09-14
Rhode IslandExperience credit2026-09-14
South CarolinaNo creditno state license to transfer2026-09-14
South DakotaExperience credit2026-09-14
TennesseeNo creditno state license to transfer2026-09-14
TexasExperience credit2026-09-14
UtahReciprocityexplicit agreement2026-09-14
VermontExperience credit2026-09-14
VirginiaExperience credit2026-09-14
WashingtonReciprocityexplicit agreement2026-09-14
West VirginiaExperience credit2026-09-14
WisconsinExperience credit2026-09-14
WyomingReciprocityexplicit agreement2026-09-14

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