Electrician License from Texas to Utah: Does It Transfer? (2026)
Does Utah accept a Texas electrician license?
An electrical license transfers from Texas to Utah by endorsement — there is no automatic reciprocity, but you do not start over. Apply to the Utah Division of Professional Licensing (DOPL) — Electrician licensing, verify your Texas license, and meet Utah's endorsement requirements. Utah waives its journeyman electrician exam for an out-of-state applicant qualifying by endorsement — i.e., holding a current, active license obtained by examination (minimum 75% score) in a state DOPL determines has substantially similar standards; applicants whose state does not qualify apply 'not by endorsement' and must sit the Utah exam. Master applicants must pass the Utah law-and-rules exam regardless.
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Verdict
Licensure by endorsement
Utah publishes no reciprocity list covering Texas, but the Utah Division of Professional Licensing (DOPL) — Electrician licensing licenses out-of-state electricians by endorsement, so this move runs on the board's case-by-case judgment rather than an automatic waiver. If you hold a master license, check the board's separate master-level rules — master electricians typically endorse rather than transfer through journeyman reciprocity. Ask the board, in writing, exactly which exam or experience requirement it will waive before you rely on it.
What's different between Texas and Utah
Computed from both states' verified data rows, in both directions, and from the route every other origin gets into Utah. Exam notes are our summary of each board's published rules, with sources below.
- Route, each way
Texas to Utah (this page): Licensure by endorsement.
Utah to Texas (the reverse move): Licensure by endorsement.
The route is the same in both directions.
- Does coming from Texas matter?
Texas gets Utah's most common result: 37 of 50 origins (the other 49 states and DC) get the same one, so for most movers the origin does not change the answer.
The others get: no state license to transfer (13).
- Reciprocity agreements
Utah's row names no reciprocity agreement states.
Texas's reciprocity agreement list names 10 states (Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wyoming), not including Utah.
- Application fee
Texas lists $30 for the reverse move; Utah has no verified fee figure on file, so the two cannot be compared here.
- Experience hours
Utah's first-time-applicant standard is 8,000 hours of documented experience for the journeyman license; Texas's is 8,000.
The two standards are the same.
- Exam rules on record
Utah and Texas carry different exam notes (our summaries, below); any state law or jurisprudence exam is listed with each state's requirements.
- Utah (this move): Utah waives its journeyman electrician exam for an out-of-state applicant qualifying by endorsement — i.e., holding a current, active license obtained by examination (minimum 75% score) in a state DOPL determines has substantially similar standards; applicants whose state does not qualify apply 'not by endorsement' and must sit the Utah exam. Master applicants must pass the Utah law-and-rules exam regardless
- Texas (the reverse move): Texas waives its journeyman electrician exam for an applicant who holds a journeyman license obtained by that state's examination in a reciprocal state and has held it for at least one year; applicants from non-reciprocal states must apply and pass the Texas journeyman exam
What changes, Texas → Utah
| Texas (current) | Utah (destination) | |
|---|---|---|
| Experience hours | 8,000 | 8,000 |
| Application fee | $30 ($30.00 journeyman electrician reciprocal license fee; the master electrician reciprocal license fee is $45.00.) | DOPL's fee schedule lists the electrician license application fee (DOPL page content indicates roughly $110 initial, ~$78 renewal); the official fee-schedule PDF and DOPL application pages returned HTTP 403 to automated retrieval, so the exact current amount is not reproduced here — verify on the DOPL fee schedule |
| Processing time | TDLR does not publish a fixed processing time for out-of-state reciprocal license applications | DOPL does not publish a fixed processing time for licensure by endorsement |
| Licensing authority | Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) — Electricians program | Utah Division of Professional Licensing (DOPL) — Electrician licensing |
The destination column is what you must satisfy — Utah sets the rules for this move.
Step by step
- Confirm Utah's current requirements on the Utah Division of Professional Licensing (DOPL) — Electrician licensing website (linked below) — rules change.
- Submit the endorsement application to the Utah Division of Professional Licensing (DOPL) — Electrician licensing (application linked below).
- Arrange license verification from your current state.
- Hold a current, active out-of-state license obtained by examination with a minimum score of 75%, in good standing.
- Provide an official Verification of Licensure from the issuing state; DOPL determines whether that state qualifies for endorsement.
- Document four years (8,000 hours) of electrical trade experience plus apprenticeship education equivalent to Utah's.
- Master / residential-master applicants must pass the Utah law-and-rules exam even when qualifying by endorsement.
- Pay the fees listed above, and allow for the processing time shown there.
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Frequently asked questions
Does this route work for a master electrician?
Not necessarily — master licenses move on separate terms. Some boards keep their own master reciprocity list; otherwise they review the master license individually. Confirm the Utah Division of Professional Licensing (DOPL) — Electrician licensing's master-level experience and exam requirements, which are separate from the journeyman track this site's grid tracks.
Sources
Primary sources only — official boards and compact commissions. Data last verified 2026-07-21.
- Oregon BCD — signed Utah/Oregon Journeyman & Master reciprocal agreement (Utah endorsement terms: without exam, 75%+, current/active, 8,000 hrs) ↗ (accessed 2026-07-21)
- Utah DOPL — Journeyman Electrician, Out-of-State Applicants Applying by Endorsement ↗ (accessed 2026-07-21)
- Utah DOPL — Division fee schedule ↗ (accessed 2026-07-21)
- TDLR — Electricians: Out-of-State (reciprocity) applicants ↗ (accessed 2026-07-21)
- TDLR News — Texas Expands Electrician Reciprocity with Ohio (2026-06-05) ↗ (accessed 2026-07-21)
Reviewed by the License Reciprocity Editorial Team · verified against primary sources 2026-07-21
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