Moving to Colorado as a journeyman plumber: every state's rule
Colorado has reciprocity agreements with 0 states. Everyone else follows its standard out-of-state path: endorsement.
Colorado journeyman plumber · “Journeyworker Plumber”
Statewide license
Issued by Colorado State Plumbing Board (DORA Division of Professions and Occupations)
Colorado issues a statewide Journeyworker Plumber license (its name for the journeyman level) through the State Plumbing Board in DORA's Division of Professions and Occupations; the Board also licenses Residential Plumbers (two years / 3,400 hours) and Master Plumbers, registers apprentices, and registers Plumbing Contractors, which must hold or employ a licensed master plumber. By examination a journeyworker needs four years (6,800 hours) of documented practical experience verified on Affidavit of Experience forms by plumbing contractors or employers, a $120 application fee, and a passing score of 70% on the PSI-administered Colorado journeyworker exam (100 multiple-choice questions, 240 minutes) based on the 2021 IPC/IRC as adopted in 3 CCR 720-1. Out-of-state licensees who meet Board Rule 1.4(B)(1)(a) may instead be licensed by endorsement without the Colorado exam; the Board publishes no reciprocal agreements with any state. Licenses expire on the last day of February of odd-numbered years, and renewal requires eight hours of continuing education per licence year (waived until after the first renewal for new exam licensees).
Every origin state
| State | Mechanism | Note | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Alaska | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Arizona | No credit | no state license to transfer | 2026-09-16 |
| Arkansas | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| California | No credit | no state license to transfer | 2026-09-16 |
| Connecticut | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Delaware | No credit | no state license to transfer | 2026-09-16 |
| District of Columbia | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Florida | No credit | no state license to transfer | 2026-09-16 |
| Georgia | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Hawaii | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Idaho | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Illinois | No credit | no state license to transfer | 2026-09-16 |
| Indiana | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Iowa | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Kansas | No credit | no state license to transfer | 2026-09-16 |
| Kentucky | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Louisiana | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Maine | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Maryland | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Massachusetts | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Michigan | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Minnesota | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Mississippi | No credit | no state license to transfer | 2026-09-16 |
| Missouri | No credit | no state license to transfer | 2026-09-16 |
| Montana | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Nebraska | No credit | no state license to transfer | 2026-09-16 |
| Nevada | No credit | no state license to transfer | 2026-09-16 |
| New Hampshire | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| New Jersey | No credit | no state license to transfer | 2026-09-16 |
| New Mexico | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| New York | No credit | no state license to transfer | 2026-09-16 |
| North Carolina | No credit | no state license to transfer | 2026-09-16 |
| North Dakota | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Ohio | No credit | no state license to transfer | 2026-09-16 |
| Oklahoma | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Oregon | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Pennsylvania | No credit | no state license to transfer | 2026-09-16 |
| Rhode Island | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| South Carolina | No credit | no state license to transfer | 2026-09-16 |
| South Dakota | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Tennessee | No credit | no state license to transfer | 2026-09-16 |
| Texas | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Utah | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Vermont | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Virginia | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Washington | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| West Virginia | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Wisconsin | Endorsement | 2026-09-16 | |
| Wyoming | No credit | no state license to transfer | 2026-09-16 |