Transfer Your Electrician License to Mississippi: Reciprocity & Endorsement (2026)

The thing to settle about Mississippi before you plan anything: there is no state journeyman or master electrician license here to transfer. Individual electricians are licensed below the state level, by a city or county, where they are licensed at all, so "reciprocity" is the wrong question — the right one is which authority governs electrical work at your jobsite and what it requires. If Mississippi licenses anything electrical statewide, it is the contractor business, a separate credential; the notes below say what applies here.

Mississippi has NO statewide journeyman or master electrician license, so there is no state credential to transfer in or out — endorsement_available false and no_reciprocity true. The Mississippi State Board of Contractors licenses electrical CONTRACTORS (companies): a commercial contractor license is required for electrical work over $50,000, and residential electrical work under $10,000 needs no state license (contact the local building official). Individual journeyman/master electrician licensing is MUNICIPAL — the city or county where the work is performed sets its own requirements, exams and any local reciprocity. MSBOC does operate a reciprocity program, but it is for the CONTRACTOR (business) license, not for an individual journeyman credential. Not a NERA member. NOTE: the MSBOC ?page_id=9 reciprocity URL 302-redirects to a suspicious external domain and was not followed; the clean path is https://www.msboc.us/contractors/reciprocity/.