Vermont Electrician & Plumber Exam Prep

Getting your Vermont contractor license? Contractor Pathway offers an original, exam-focused study guide and four full-length practice exams for every Vermont classification that requires a state board exam — currently 4 courses across Electrical and Plumbing. Choose your classification below and study with 30-, 60-, or 90-day access at $99, $129, and $169.

Who licenses contractors in Vermont

These are the Vermont classifications we build exam prep for, each licensed by its responsible board:

Always confirm the current code edition, experience requirements, fees, and passing score with the board and testing vendor before you schedule. Contractor Pathway is an independent exam-prep provider and is not affiliated with any Vermont board or testing vendor.

How to get licensed in Vermont

Vermont licenses the electrical trade through the Electricians’ Licensing Board at the Division of Fire Safety. The ordinary route is the state apprenticeship programme, not an hours count — the big hour figures Vermont publishes apply to a specific reciprocity path.

1. Journeyman: finish the Vermont apprenticeship. If you have completed the Vermont apprenticeship programme within the past two years, include a copy of your completion certificate — and note that affidavits are not required for that submission. This is the cleanest path to the licence.
2. Journeyman by military reciprocity: 8,000 hours. An applicant using the reciprocal military route submits a DD-214 showing honourable discharge no more than two years prior, together with a copy of 12R course completion or equivalent and 8,000 hours of experience.
3. Master: two years as a Vermont journeyman. Apply after holding a Vermont electrical journeyman licence for two years, submitting the completed application with a copy of that qualifying licence. On the reciprocal military route the master requirement is 12R course completion or equivalent plus 12,000 hours of experience.
4. Specialist: training plus 2,000 hours, per field. A specialist licence requires proof of completion of a recognised training programme plus one year — 2,000 hours — of experience, evidenced by signed affidavits, for each specialty applied for.
5. Licences run three years. Vermont electrical licences are issued on a three-year cycle: $115 journeyman, $150 master, and $115 per field for specialist.
6. Continuing education: 15 hours of Code per cycle. As a condition of renewal, journeyman and master electricians complete 15 hours of board-approved instruction on the National Electrical Code during the preceding 36-month period.
7. Study the Vermont Electrical Safety Rules, not just the NEC. Vermont enforces nationally recognised codes through its own state Electrical Safety Rules. The state amendments are where candidates who know only the NEC tend to lose marks.

Sources: Vermont Division of Fire Safety, Electricians’ Licensing Board, electrical licensing, the Vermont electrical licence application (from which the routes, hour figures and fees above are taken verbatim) and the 2025 Vermont Electrical Safety Rules. Contractor Pathway is an independent exam-preparation provider and is not affiliated with the Division of Fire Safety.

Choose your Vermont classification

Each course includes a comprehensive study guide — often 10,000 words or more — worked calculations, code-section breakdowns, common exam traps, a glossary, and a 30/60/90-day study plan — plus four full-length practice exams matched to the topic weightings of the Vermont test.