Moving to Maine as a journeyman plumber: every state's rule
Maine has reciprocity agreements with 0 states. Everyone else follows its standard out-of-state path: endorsement.
Maine journeyman plumber · “Journeyman Plumber”
Statewide license
Maine issues a statewide Journeyman Plumber license through the Plumbers' Examining Board in OPOR (32 M.R.S. ch. 49). By examination an applicant files a sworn application, pays the fee set under §3501-B, documents at least two years / 4,000 hours as a licensed trainee plumber under a master (or the equivalent), or 2,000 hours as a journeyman-in-training under a master within four years of the JIT license, and obtains a passing grade on the board-approved journeyman examination. The board also issues a one-time, four-year nonrenewable journeyman-in-training license after one academic year of approved plumbing instruction plus the same exam, a limited plumber license, and a trainee plumber license without examination. Out-of-state journeymen are directed to licensure by endorsement under 32 M.R.S. §3501-C and 10 M.R.S. §8003-H when the origin jurisdiction's requirements are substantially equivalent; otherwise they apply by examination with comparable hours credited as 'the equivalent' of Maine trainee time.
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 |
| Colorado | Endorsement | 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 | |
| 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 |