New Hampshire Journeyman Electrician License: Requirements and How to Apply

New Hampshire licenses electricians statewide through the Electricians' Board, part of the Office of Professional Licensure and Certification (OPLC). Electrical installations for pay must be made by a licensed electrician (RSA 319-C:1), and a journeyman works for a licensed master electrician or a licensed electrical business. Everything below comes from RSA 319-C, the Board's rules (Elec 300-400) and Prov's candidate bulletin.

Experience and schooling

Requirement	Detail
Experience	8,000 hours of practical or field experience as an apprentice to a licensed journeyman or master (Elec 304.01(a)(1))
Schooling	600 hours of electrical schooling, including at least 24 hours on electrical safety, taken in courses of 150 hours; or an associate (or higher) degree in an electrical program
Alternatives to the schooling	10 years licensed as a journeyman or master in another jurisdiction, or having taken the New Hampshire journeyman or master exam before
School credit	Approved schools (NH community colleges, IBEW-NECA apprenticeship schools, approved vocational and accredited out-of-state schools) can credit up to 2,000 hours toward the experience

Apprentices must register with the Board (RSA 319-C:7, IV). On a work site, a journeyman may directly supervise one apprentice in the first year after licensure and two after that, within the site limits in RSA 319-C:2-a.

How to apply

Apply to the Electricians' Board with the $50 application fee (Elec 305.04). The fee is nonrefundable.
Wait for approval. Prov cannot schedule you until the Board approves you.
Schedule with Prov online at provexam.com or at (801) 733-4455, at a New Hampshire test center or remotely. The exam fee is $90 per attempt.
See your result right away. Prov scores the exam when you finish and sends the result to the Board.

If you have not passed within a year of the Board receiving your application, you must file a new application and pay again (RSA 319-C:8).

The exam in brief

Item	New Hampshire Journeyman Electrician 2020
Given by	Prov, by computer at four NH test centers or remotely
Questions	110
Time	270 minutes (4.5 hours)
Passing score	70%
Format	Open book
Code	2020 NEC (the 2023 NEC is also on the reference list)

Nine of the 110 questions are on New Hampshire's licensing law. See what is on the Journeyman exam for the full outline.

Licensed in another state?

New Hampshire is a member of the National Electrical Reciprocal Alliance (NERA) for journeymen, with Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Maine, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming. It also has long-standing journeyman agreements with Maine, Vermont and Massachusetts. Confirm your state with the Board before you apply.

Renewal and continuing education

Licenses renew every two years from the date of issuance (Elec 401.01). Each time a new edition of the NEC is published, every journeyman and master must complete a 15-hour code-update course, including at least an hour on New Hampshire's law and rules, within 12 months from the following January 1 (Elec 403.01). For the 2026 NEC, that deadline is December 31, 2026. A license that lapses more than a year needs extra NEC coursework, and after 10 years without a license in another state you retake the exam (Elec 402.01).

Practice for the exam

Our New Hampshire Journeyman practice test is built on the 2020 NEC and New Hampshire's licensing law, and every question cites the section you would look up on test day. When you are ready to move up, see the Master Electrician requirements.

New Hampshire Journeyman Electrician License: Requirements and How to Apply