Indiana does not license electricians at the state level.
Indiana does NOT issue an electrician license at the state level. The Indiana Professional Licensing Agency (PLA) is the state’s central occupational-licensing body, and electricians do not appear anywhere on its roster of regulated professions: the PLA professions directory lists Plumbing (Ind. licenses plumbers at the state level) but has no electrician, electrical contractor, or journeyman/master electrician board. There is no state electrician license to apply for. Instead, licensing of electricians and electrical contractors in Indiana is handled locally by individual cities and counties, each with its own ordinance, licensing board, experience/exam standards, and fees. Two representative official examples confirm this: (1) Monroe County (Bloomington) - its Licensing and Registration Board ‘shall be responsible for the examination, registration, and licensing of electrical contractors in this jurisdiction,’ issuing four-year licenses under the county code with a $500,000 liability-insurance minimum and no reference to any state license. (2) City of Lafayette - ‘You must hold a valid electrical license or be an electrical journeyman or trainee while employed or supervised by a licensed electrician to perform any installation, maintenance, alteration, or repair on any electrical equipment within the City of Lafayette,’ and the city itself issues the residential and commercial electrical licenses (residential electrician: 4+ years experience with contractor certification OR pass the exam; contractor tiers require up to 10 years experience or an engineering degree; fees roughly $25-$200 initial and $15-$100 annual renewal, insurance required). Because standards vary by jurisdiction, there is no single statewide requirement, fee, exam, or renewal cycle for Indiana electricians.
What it’s called
Indiana does not issue an electrician license at the state level; electricians are licensed by the individual city or county. A search for an “Indiana electrician license” maps to that LOCAL license from the local building or permits authority. “Electrician license,” “journeyman electrician license” and “electrician certification” are common informal names for it.
Who does NOT need a license — exemptions
Indiana’s one state-level intervention in this landscape runs in the opposite direction from an exemption: it is a preemption statute that deliberately does NOT cover electricians. Under IC 36-1-22-5, after February 28, 2013, a political subdivision may not require a builder or remodeler of residential dwellings to be licensed, certified, permitted, registered, or listed as a condition of building or remodeling. But IC 36-1-22-6 expressly preserves local trade licensing: the chapter does not prohibit a political subdivision from “[r]equiring a person who engages in a specific building or construction trade, including an electrician, a plumber, a tile layer, a landscaper, or a practitioner of another specific trade, to be licensed, permitted, registered, or listed by the political subdivision before engaging in the specific building or construction trade,” and it leaves pre-March 2013 local ordinances and all building-permit authority intact. The practical consequence: Indiana cities and counties remain fully free to license electricians (as Monroe County and Lafayette do), and any exemptions from those requirements - homeowner work, employee status, dollar thresholds - exist only jurisdiction by jurisdiction in each local ordinance. Indiana state law itself contains no electrician-licensing scheme and therefore no state-level exemption from one.
Where to get licensed
Contact the building, permits, or code-enforcement department of the specific Indiana city or county where the electrical work will be performed - that local authority (e.g., a city Electrical License Board or a county Licensing and Registration Board / Building Commissioner) issues the electrician/electrical-contractor license and sets the experience, exam, insurance, and fee requirements. The Indiana Professional Licensing Agency (in.gov/pla) does NOT license electricians and cannot help; use it only to confirm the profession is not state-regulated. If unsure which jurisdiction governs a job site, ask the local building/permit office where the property is located.