Wyoming Master Electrician License: Requirements, Experience, and How to Apply
What Wyoming's DFPES requires for a master electrician license: 16,000 hours with 8,000 as a licensed journeyman, 576 classroom hours, the $115 ICC exam and its 75% pass mark, the $200 license, renewal and reciprocity.
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Wyoming Master Electrician License: Requirements and How to Apply
Wyoming licenses electricians through the Department of Fire Prevention and Electrical Safety (DFPES). The individual licenses are apprentice, journeyman and master, and the master exam is ICC's Wyoming Master Electrician exam. Here is what the master license takes.
Experience and classroom hours
You need:
- 16,000 hours (eight years) of experience, 8,000 of them as a licensed journeyman, and
- 576 classroom hours from an approved apprenticeship.
If you do not have a journeyman license yet, start there. See Wyoming Journeyman Electrician requirements.
The exam
ICC gives the Wyoming Master Electrician exam (701) at Pearson VUE test centers for $115:
- 100 multiple-choice questions in 5 hours, four options and one correct answer each,
- open book with the 2023 NEC and Ugly's Electrical Reference (any edition); the hardcover NEC Handbook is also allowed,
- 75% to pass, higher than the 70% on the journeyman exam. After a failed attempt you wait 10 days to retest.
What is on the exam breaks down the ICC outline.
Master or contractor?
The master license is for the person; the electrical contractor license is for the business. A Wyoming electrical contractor must employ a full-time master as its master of record, and a master can be the master of record for only one company.
Fees
| Item | Cost |
|---|---|
| ICC exam | $115 |
| Master license, new | $200 |
| Master license, renewal | $100 |
Renewal and continuing education
A master license expires July 1 of the third year after it is issued. You need 16 hours of board-approved continuing education per license period, at least 8 of them on the NEC. There is a 45-day late window with a $50 late fee; after that you must retest.
Licensed in another state?
Wyoming has master reciprocity with Idaho, South Dakota and Iowa only. The license must have been earned by exam with 75% or better and held for at least one year, and you must still meet Wyoming's hours and schooling requirements. Reciprocity can be used once, and anyone who failed a Wyoming exam must wait three years before applying by reciprocity.
Getting ready
Wyoming and ICC do not publish exam pass rates. Try our free 10-question practice test on the 2023 NEC, or see the full Wyoming Master Electrician exam prep.
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