Requirements, license levels, and the issuing authority, sourced from Mississippi's official board.
State board licenses electrical CONTRACTORS (businesses). Mississippi has no statewide journeyman/master electrician license; individual electrician licensing is handled by municipalities.
| Requirements | Electrical major classification requires passing a trade exam or NASCLA-accredited exam. State license required for commercial work over $50,000 and for residential electrical work (per Board thresholds; residential work under $10,000 defers to local building official). |
| Reciprocity | Yes. The Mississippi State Board of Contractors publishes reciprocal agreements with named boards, and reciprocity means waiver of a trade examination only. The agreements that reach electrical work are: Alabama Electrical Board (must hold a current license and must have taken the Alabama exam); North Carolina Electrical Contractors Board, which waives the Electrical and Alarm Systems exams only (current license held for one year, exam taken); Ohio Construction Industry Licensing Board, which waives exams only for Electrical, HVAC, Plumbing and/or Refrigeration (current license, exam taken, no disciplinary action in the last year); South Carolina Contractors Licensing Board, which waives Building and Electrical exams only (current license, exam taken, and the exam must have been given by PSI, Experior, Block or NAI); South Carolina Residential Builders Commission, which waives Residential Builder, Residential Electrical, Residential HVAC and Residential Plumbing (current license, exam taken, no disciplinary action in the last 3 years); and Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors, which waives all exams (current license, exam taken, no disciplinary action in the last year). The Arkansas Contractors Licensing Board agreement expressly excludes electrical work from its waiver. General conditions: a $50 fee for each exam waived, non-refundable; every applicant must still take the Mississippi Law and Business Management examination and submit a full application; the applicant must have held the license for 1 year and be free of disciplinary action for the period specified in the agreement; verification runs through a two-part form completed by the applicant and the reciprocal state's board. Document revised 07/2025. |
| Renewal | Annual. The Mississippi State Board of Contractors states that licenses must be renewed annually, and that a license may be processed as a late renewal for up to 180 days after expiration; beyond 180 days a new application is required. Continuing education: none for the commercial classification under which electrical contractor licenses fall. The Board's official continuing education procedures and guidelines require two (2) credit hours of continuing education taught by a board-approved provider or instructor each year to maintain a RESIDENTIAL license pursuant to Miss. Code Ann. § 73-59-11, applying to all residential licenses issued on or after July 1, 2015, with no carryover of hours between licensure periods. That document addresses residential license holders only and never makes commercial licensees subject to continuing education. The guidelines also mandate no code-update or NEC-specific hour count: subject matter is illustrative, listing areas that may include building or residential construction codes and standards, construction safety, government regulations, land use, estimating, business principles and contracts. Renewal fee amounts are not recorded here: the Board's schedule of fees did not render when checked, so no dollar figure was read on an official page. |
| Notes | State board licenses electrical CONTRACTORS (businesses). Mississippi has no statewide journeyman/master electrician license; individual electrician licensing is handled by municipalities. |
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