How to become an electrician in Kansas

The path in Kansas, step by step

There is no state electrical license in Kansas. Check with each county or city where you work. A city or county may also use its own exam, but that license is good only in that jurisdiction. The training is the same as anywhere: learn the trade under someone experienced, ideally in a registered apprenticeship.

1. Get two years of field experience under a licensed electrician.
2. Pass a state-designated standard electrical exam (ICC, IAPMO or Prometric) with at least 75%.
3. Apply to the county or city where you work for your journeyman or residential certificate.
4. After two years as a journeyman, get your master certificate.
5. Get the electrical contractor license from each county or city that requires one, and keep up your continuing education.

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Finding an apprenticeship in Kansas

Kansas runs Registered Apprenticeship through its own State Apprenticeship Agency, recognized by the U.S. Department of Labor to register and oversee programs there. Its staff are state employees, and it may use the federal paperwork or forms of its own. Apprenticeship.gov lists the Kansas State Apprenticeship Agency as the contact.

Either way, a registered program means paid work with a mentor, raises as you progress, classroom instruction and a credential recognized in every state. Search open spots in the Apprenticeship Job Finder.

Across the country. Most electricians learn the trade in a 4 or 5 year apprenticeship. Each year brings about 2,000 hours of paid on-the-job training plus some classroom instruction.

Licenses and exams around Kansas

The license to aim for: None at state level.

Trade exam. Local licensing uses the state-designated standard exams for electrical contractors, master, journeyman and residential electricians from ICC, IAPMO or Prometric, with a minimum passing score of 75%.

Keeping it. Local licenses require at least 12 hours of continuing education every two years, or 6 hours a year, approved by the local body.

Coming from another state. A certificate earned on a designated standard exam, with the required experience, is valid in any Kansas county or city that licenses electricians, without another exam.

What electricians earn in Kansas

The median electrician in Kansas earned $31.66 an hour in May 2025, 23rd of 51 states, with 6,350 on payrolls. The national median was $30.38.

At the bottom of the range, a quarter of electricians in Kansas earned under $24.67 an hour and a tenth under $20.51. At the top, a quarter earned over $38.73 and a tenth over $46.55.

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Jobs ahead in Kansas

Kansas's labor market office projects jobs for electricians growing from 6,440 in 2022 to 7,010 in 2032, a change of 8.9%. Counting people who retire or change careers, that is about 640 openings a year.

Jobs are projected to grow 8.9% from 2022 to 2032, faster than the 6.5% projected nationally, ranking 39th of the 50 states in the file.

These are the state's own long-term projections, published together on Projections Central for the occupation group electricians.

Starting your own electrician business in Kansas

Check with each county or city where you work. A city or county may also use its own exam, but that license is good only in that jurisdiction.

Pricing comes next. Paying yourself the Kansas median of $31.66 an hour, the labor rate calculator's starting numbers (one person, 2 unbilled hours a day, $90,000 of overhead, 15% profit) come to $126.19 per billable hour. Try your own in the electrician labor rate calculator.

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