Missouri Office of Statewide Electrical Contractors (OSEC), Division of Professional Registration administers electrical contractor licensing in Missouri. Every figure below is verified against the board’s own official pages and dated. Who must personally hold a credential — the contractor, the business, or the individual worker — is set out under Requirements.
What it’s called
In Missouri the only state electrical credential is an optional statewide electrical contractor license, issued by the Office of Statewide Electrical Contractors to a supervisory ‘qualifier’ on behalf of a contractor. Missouri does not license individual electricians statewide; most licensing happens at the city or county level. A search for a “Missouri electrician license” maps to a local license or the optional state contractor license. “Electrician license” and “journeyman electrician license” are common informal names for these.
License types & fees
| Type | Experience | Exam | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statewide Electrical Contractor (qualifier license) | Under the standalone §324.920.1 pathway, completed ONE of: (a) 12,000 verifiable practical hours installing equipment and associated wiring; (b) 10,000 such hours plus an electrical journeyman certificate from a U.S. Department of Labor-approved apprenticeship program; (c) 8,000 such hours plus an associate's degree from a state-accredited program; or (d) 4,000 hours supervising such installation plus a four-year electrical engineering degree (§324.920.1(4) RSMo). A SEPARATE §324.920.2 pathway is open to holders of a local (political-subdivision) electrical contractor or master electrician license for six of the previous eight years. | Passing score on an approved, standardized, nationally-accredited written electrical assessment examination based on the National Electric Code, administered by an independent testing agency (no state-run exam). Approved providers/levels include ICC (Electrical Contractor, Master Electrician, Journeyman Electrician), Prov Inc., NASCLA, PSI Services, and Prometric. | $200 license application fee |
Who does NOT need this license — exemptions
Missouri’s only state-level electrical credential is the statewide electrical contractor (qualifier) license, and it is voluntary: no provision of sections 324.900 to 324.945, RSMo requires any person to hold it (every operative section of the range — 324.900, 324.910, 324.915, 324.920, 324.925, 324.930, 324.935, 324.940, 324.945 — was read in full; none contains a licensure mandate). Its purpose is recognition: political subdivisions must accept a statewide license in lieu of a local license and may not subject its holder to any additional local proficiency examination (§ 324.925.1). Beyond that voluntary structure, § 324.915, RSMo expressly exempts whole classes of work from the statewide licensing law: work done by employees of an electric utility, gas corporation, water corporation, cable television provider, or telecommunications company; work done by a railroad corporation; work by contractors servicing the construction and maintenance of power lines or substations of an electric utility, municipal utility, rural electric cooperative, telecommunications company, or cable provider when engaged in the utility’s work; work by federally licensed radio or television broadcast stations and FCC-licensed commercial mobile radio service providers; work by private broadcast engineering contractors holding a valid Society of Broadcast Engineers certification; and work by contractors engaged in class two or class three remote control, signaling, or power-limited circuits, optical fiber or other cabling, or communications circuits for voice, video, audio, and data in residential or commercial premises — the low-voltage carve-out. Missouri issues no statewide journeyman or master electrician license at all; individual electricians are licensed, if anywhere, by cities and counties, which retain authority to license electricians based on professional experience and a nationally accredited electrical assessment examination (§ 324.925.3(8)), and political subdivisions that lacked authority to issue or require electrical licenses before August 28, 2017 cannot gain it under the statewide law (§ 324.925.4). Homeowner, farm, or minor-work exemptions therefore do not appear in the state act — whether an unlicensed person may perform a given electrical job in Missouri is decided by the city or county where the work is done.
Fees
License Application Fee $200; Triennial Renewal Fee $100; Inactive Triennial Renewal Fee $200; Reactivation Fee $100; Reinstatement Fee $250; Temporary License Fee $100; Duplicate License Fee $10; Verification of License $10; Insufficient Check Fee $25. All fees nonrefundable.
Exam
No state-administered exam. Requires a passing score on an approved, nationally-accredited, NEC-based written electrical assessment examination administered by an independent testing agency. Approved administrators/levels: ICC (Electrical Contractor F49; Master Electrician G16/F16; Journeyman Electrician G17/F17, via Pearson VUE), Prov Inc., NASCLA, PSI Services LLC, and Prometric. A previously passed approved exam (contractor/master/journeyman level) may be used as evidence.
Renewal & continuing education
Triennial — all statewide electrical contractor licenses expire September 30 of every third year (renewal notices mailed ~90 days before expiration). None currently required. Sec. 324.910.1 RSMo authorizes the division to impose continuing education by rule, but as of these sources no CE is required (Contractors FAQ #11).
How to apply
Applications are handled by Missouri Office of Statewide Electrical Contractors (OSEC), Division of Professional Registration. Start at the official application page .