What people come here for
Every page below is on this site, and every figure on it carries the board page, the rule or the bulletin it came from.
The path
- Colorado Electrician Questions - Answered and Cited
Twenty Colorado electrician questions answered in the words people type, each tied to the Board, the statute, the rules or the PSI bulletin.
- Colorado Electrical Apprentice Registration - The Rules
Your employer registers you as a Colorado electrical apprentice within 30 days of hire. Here is the supervision rule, the reporting and the six year exam.
- How to Become an Electrician in Colorado - Step by Step
Getting hired, apprentice registration, hours, 288 classroom hours, the PSI exam and the license application, in the order Colorado asks for them.
- Colorado Electrician License - The Full Path, Cited
Every Colorado electrician license, the hours behind it, the PSI exam and the dates in the 2026 cycle, with a state source on every line.
- Colorado Electrician Hours and Experience - What Counts
8,000 hours for journeyman with 2,000 commercial, 4,000 for residential wireman, 10,000 for master, plus 288 classroom hours and a printed conflict.
The licenses
- Colorado Electrical Contractor Registration - The Rules
The Colorado electrical contractor registration is a business record with no exam. It needs a master electrician on it, and it ends if that master leaves.
- Colorado Journeyman Electrician License - Hours and Exam
The Colorado journeyman electrician license asks for 8,000 hours, 2,000 of them commercial, 288 classroom hours and a PSI exam passed at 70 percent.
- Colorado Electrician License Types - Codes and Scope
Colorado issues three electrician licenses, an apprentice registration, a contractor registration and a new photovoltaic installer registration.
- Colorado Master Electrician License - The Four Routes
Colorado master electrician applicants use one of four experience routes, pass the PSI master exam first, and become the person a contractor must employ.
- Colorado Photovoltaic Installer Registration - Dec 31
Senate Bill 25-165 makes photovoltaic installers register with the Board by December 31, 2026. Applications are not open yet. Here are the five conditions.
- Colorado Residential Wireman License - Scope and Hours
The Colorado residential wireman license covers one to four family dwellings, asks for 4,000 hours over two years and stops at the commercial job site.
Rules and money
- Colorado Electrician Continuing Education - 24 Hours
24 CE hours in each three year license period, at least four in code changes, no more than four in safety, and a first renewal exemption worth knowing.
- Colorado Electrician License Fees and Renewal Dates
Licenses expire September 30, 2026 and renew through November 30, 2026. The state publishes no fee amounts, and this page says so instead of guessing.
- Colorado Electrical License Reciprocity - The 14 States
Colorado has 14 reciprocity states and a separate endorsement door. Texas is not one of them, and the edition test for endorsement is in dispute.
- Colorado Electrical License Lookup - How to Verify
The Colorado electrical license lookup runs on DORA's free public search. Here is what it shows, the license codes you will see and where it stops.
The exam
- Colorado Electrician Exam and Code Questions - Answered
Twenty questions about the Colorado electrician exam and the code it tests, answered short and cited, with both sides printed where sources disagree.
- November 1 2026 - The Last Day for the 2023 NEC Book
PSI provides the 2023 code book on request until November 1, 2026. After that it is not offered. What to do if you booked late or studied on 2023.
- Colorado Exam Book Rules - You Cannot Bring Your Own
PSI supplies the code book and formula page in Colorado and bars writing, highlighting, underlining and indexing. You cannot bring or tab your own copy.
- Denver Electrical Exams 380 and 377 - On the 2014 NEC
Denver runs its own electrical signal exams through Pearson VUE at $115 each, written to the 2014 NEC, four editions behind the Colorado state exam.
- What Is on the Colorado Electrician Exam - By Subject
No content outline is published for the Colorado electrician exams, so this page works from the 90 item format, the pass mark and the state competencies.
- Colorado Journeyman Electrician Exam - Format and Fee
90 scored items, 240 minutes, 63 correct to pass, $78 to sit and $73 to retest, on the 2026 NEC book PSI hands you at the Colorado test center.
- Colorado Master Electrician Exam - Format, Fee, Books
The Colorado master electrician exam runs 90 scored items in 240 minutes at a 70 percent pass mark, and you sit it before you apply for the license.
- Colorado Residential Wireman Exam - What to Expect
The residential wireman exam is the same 90 item, 240 minute, 70 percent paper as the other three, and PSI supplies the code book and the formula page.
- Colorado Electrician Exam Retakes - Fee and Timing
There is no published waiting period after a failed Colorado electrician exam. The retest fee is $73 and you cannot rebook on the day you tested.
- Colorado 6 Year Apprentice Exam - Who Has to Sit It
PSI runs a fourth Colorado exam for apprentices registered six years or more. The statute makes it compulsory every three years until you pass it.
- Colorado Electrician Exam Study Plan - Eight Weeks
A study plan for an exam you sit with a book you have never marked, built around lookup speed, the 240 minute clock and the 2026 edition switch.
- Colorado Electrician Test Day - ID, Centers and Rules
The ten PSI centers in Colorado, the identification that gets you in, the cancellation window and what the room gives you when you sit down.
- Colorado Exam NEC Edition - The 2026 Book Since August
The Colorado electrician exam has tested the 2026 NEC since August 1, 2026. Here is the PSI sentence, its revision date and what it costs a 2023 student.
The code
- Colorado Code and Exam Dates - The 17 Day Gap in 2026
The state code moved on July 15, 2026 and the exam moved on August 1, 2026. Seventeen days apart, from two bodies, with other texts still disagreeing.
- 2023 to 2026 NEC in Colorado - What Actually Changed
What a Colorado candidate who learned on the 2023 book faces now, and why this site does not print an article by article list it cannot source.
- Colorado and the Next NEC Edition - What Happens Next
Colorado is on the 2026 NEC. How the last adoption ran, what the Board needs in order to depart from the code, and what has not been published yet.
- Colorado NEC Amendments - What the Rule Actually Says
Colorado incorporates the NEC by reference and adds an EV power transfer requirement. No amendment schedule was found and the new text is unread.
- Colorado NEC Edition in Force - The 2026 Code, July 15
Colorado's state electrical code went to the 2026 NEC on July 15, 2026 by rule filing 2026-00171, while other official texts still print older editions.
Study
- Colorado Electrician Practice Questions - Free by Topic
Free Colorado electrician practice questions by topic, written to the 2026 NEC numbering the Colorado exam has used since August 1, 2026.
- Colorado Electrician Exam Tools - Calculators and Drills
Every calculator, game, lab and drill on this site, with what each one does and the code edition the table values inside them were read in.
Your city
What a person in each of these eight cities does to get licensed, the training programs there, the nearest test center and the local wage.
- Denver Electrician License CO - Exams, Classes, Rules
Denver electricians hold the state license and meet a city layer nobody could read. What the ICC bulletin confirms, and what stays unconfirmed here.
- Colorado Springs Electrician License - Classes and Exam
Colorado Springs runs no electrical exam of its own. PPRBD registration, the IBEW and IEC programs, the college, and the Edison Avenue test center.
- Aurora Electrician License CO - Training and Testing
Aurora issues no separate electrician license for the trade. What the city says, where Aurora people train, and which test centers they drive to.
- Fort Collins Electrician License - Classes and Exam
Fort Collins registers master electricians and runs no exam of its own. The IEC Rocky Mountain campus, the fee question and the College Avenue test site.
- Lakewood Electrician License CO - Classes and Testing
Lakewood registers electrical contractors as Class B. Red Rocks Community College is both the electrical college in town and the PSI test center.
- Thornton Electrician License CO - No Fee, Two Years
Thornton licenses electrical contractors under Class D with no fee and a two year term. The nearest training and test centers are all outside the city.
- Arvada Electrician License CO - Registration and Exam
Arvada checks your state contractor and master licenses before it issues a permit. There is no Arvada apprenticeship sponsor and no test center in town.
- Pueblo Electrician License CO - Classes and Exam Site
Pueblo's building department changed hands on January 1, 2026. The JATC, IntelliTec and the West 4th Street test center are the local pieces.
Hands-on labs
In a lab you drag the conductor, turn the dial or drop conductors into a box, and the page answers with the number it just changed and the code section behind it. All four are free and none of them asks for an account.
- Conduit bending simulator
Offsets, saddles and 90s, worked live.
- Switch wiring lab
3-way and 4-way, drag the wires.
- Box fill lab
Drop conductors in and watch it fill.
- Grounding electrode lab
Build it, bond it, size the GEC.
How it works
- Sit thirty questions against the clock. The practice test is timed and scored by content area. Thirty questions are free, they run with no account and no network, and every miss comes back with the arithmetic worked out and the section named.
- Work the area you lost. The score report names the area you are weakest in. Practice questions by topic holds 54 topics with 25 questions each, free.
- Open the bank when the free set runs out. $79 once opens the other 470 questions and the seven remaining rungs of the calculation ladder. One payment, no subscription, no account, and no email address on file with us.
Thirty free questions, timed, with the working shown
Every miss comes back with the arithmetic worked out and the code section named, so you learn the trap and not just the answer. No account.
All questions here are original. They are not actual exam questions, and no question bank can promise you a pass.
What this page cites
- State Electrical Board applications page The hours each license asks for, the 2,000 hour commercial floor inside the 8,000 and the 288 classroom hours. source
- PSI bulletin 3395 The 90 scored items, the 240 minutes, the 70 percent pass mark and the book PSI provides at the test center. source
- C.R.S. 12-115-110 The statutory experience for master, journeyman and residential wireman, and the 288 hours of training. source
- Secretary of State eDocket 2026-00171 The 2026 National Electrical Code adopted into Rule 1.5 of 3 CCR 710-1, effective 15 July 2026. source
The 2023 to 2026 section crosswalk maps every section that moved, both directions, $29 once.