Minnesota Electrician License and Exam Prep, in One Place

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

• Minnesota Electrician Questions, Answered and Cited

  Twenty Minnesota electrician questions answered in the words people type, each tied to the statute, a DLI page or the Board of Electricity minutes.

• How to Become an Electrician in Minnesota: The Real Order

  Becoming an electrician in Minnesota starts with a job and a $14 registration, not a school. Here is the order that works and what each step costs.

• Minnesota Electrician License: Every Step and Every Fee

  How to get a Minnesota electrician license: register, log the months, apply, wait for approval, sit the exam in St. Paul and pay the license fee.

The licenses

• Minnesota Electrician Apprenticeship: Every DLI Sponsor

  DLI names eight registered construction electrician sponsors in Minnesota, one limited energy sponsor and two utility sponsors. Here is the whole list.

• Class B Electrician Minnesota: Closed Since August 1985

  Minnesota stopped issuing Class B master and Class B journeyworker licenses on August 1, 1985. Here is what they were and what you can get instead.

• Minnesota Class B Installer License: The Open Class B

  Class B installer, code IB, is the one Class B credential Minnesota still issues. It needs 12 months or a course, a 25 question exam and a $1,000 bond.

• Minnesota Electrical Contractor License: Bond and Insurance

  A Minnesota electrical contractor license costs $188, needs a $25,000 bond, set insurance limits and a master electrician carrying the license.

• Journeyman Electrician Minnesota: The Journeyworker License

  Minnesota calls it a Class A journeyworker electrician license. It takes 48 months of experience and an 80 question exam. Here is the whole route.

• Journeyworker or Journeyman? Minnesota Uses One of Them

  Minnesota law, DLI and the license itself say journeyworker. The prep market says journeyman. Both point at the same license, and here is how to tell.

• Minnesota Electrician License Types and What Each Allows

  Every electrical license Minnesota issues, the two letter code on each one, the experience it asks for, its exam length and what it lets you do.

• Minnesota Lineman License: The NESC Exam and 48 Months

  The Minnesota lineman license, code LN, is the one electrical exam taken on the National Electrical Safety Code. It needs 48 months with a utility.

• Minnesota Maintenance Electrician License: Scope and Exam

  The Minnesota maintenance electrician license, code MN, takes 48 months with 24 in repair work and a 70 question exam. Its scope is tied to one employer.

• Minnesota Master Electrician License: Three Ways to Qualify

  The Minnesota Class A master electrician license has three qualifying routes, an 80 question exam and a 60 month matrix. Here is each route in full.

• Minnesota Power Limited Technician License: PL in Full

  The Minnesota power limited technician license takes 36 months and an 80 question exam, and its continuing education split runs the opposite way.

• Minnesota Registered Unlicensed Electrician: RE and RT

  Minnesota registers unlicensed electrical workers on the RE and RT codes. It costs $14, needs no exam, and it is what makes your hours count later.

• Minnesota Satellite System Installer License: SI Explained

  The Minnesota satellite system installer license takes a 25 question exam plus a certification program the board accepts. Here is what that means.

Rules and money

• Minnesota Electrical License Lookup: How to Verify Anyone

  DLI runs a free public license search for Minnesota electricians and contractors. Here is where it lives, what it shows and where it stops.

• Minnesota Electrical Continuing Education: Hours by License

  Minnesota electrical continuing education is 16 hours for most licenses, split 12 code and 4 non code. Power limited technicians run the split backwards.

• Minnesota Electrical License Fees and Renewal Dates in Full

  Every Minnesota electrical license fee from the state schedule, plus the renewal dates, including the ones the statute and DLI word differently.

• Minnesota Electrical Experience: Months, Not Hours, By Type

  Minnesota counts electrical experience in months in named categories, with a minimum and a maximum for each. Here is every matrix DLI publishes.

• Minnesota Electrical License Reciprocity: Nine States Listed

  Minnesota has journeyworker reciprocity with nine states and master reciprocity with four. Here are the states, the eight conditions and the $50 fee.

The exam

• Minnesota Electrician Exam Questions, Answered and Cited

  Twenty questions about the Minnesota electrical exam and the code, answered short and cited to DLI, the exam guide or the board minutes.

• Minnesota Electrical Exam Book Rules: DLI Hands You One

  Minnesota supplies the code book at the exam. It is soft cover with no tabs or aids, only a basic calculator is allowed, and phones stay outside.

• What Is on the Minnesota Electrician Exam, Area by Area

  DLI publishes no content outline for its electrical exams. Here is what the guide does state, and our own ordering of the code areas to work.

• Minnesota Exam Format Change: What DLI Has Not Published

  The DLI exam guide dates the current question format, difficulty and length to September 8, 2026 but never says what changed. Nobody has published it.

• Minnesota Journeyworker Exam: 80 Questions, 5.5 Hours

  The Minnesota Class A journeyworker exam is 80 questions in five and a half hours at 70 percent, run by DLI in St. Paul on the 2026 NEC.

• Minnesota Master Electrician Exam: 80 Questions in St. Paul

  The Minnesota master electrician exam is 80 questions in five and a half hours at 70 percent. Here is what qualifies you and what the board reports.

• Minnesota Electrician Exam Pass Rates: What the Board Says

  Board of Electricity minutes give Minnesota journeyworker pass rates of 69, 40, 60, 32, 42 and 45 percent. The number depends on how the board counted.

• Minnesota Power Limited Technician Exam: 80 Questions, PL

  The Minnesota power limited technician exam is 80 questions in five and a half hours at 70 percent, with 36 months of experience behind it.

• Minnesota Electrician Exam Retake Rules: 30 Days and $50

  Fail a Minnesota electrical exam and you may apply again 30 days after notification, with a new application and a new $50 fee. Here is the whole rule.

• Minnesota Electrician Exam Study Plan: Eight Weeks, Clean

  A study plan for a Minnesota electrical exam, built around a clean code book, a four minute question pace and the 2026 edition the paper now uses.

• Minnesota Electrician Exam Day: St. Paul, 8:15 to 1:45

  Minnesota exams run weekly on Wednesdays at DLI in St. Paul, 8:15 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. Here is scheduling, ID, what to bring and when results arrive.

• Which NEC Edition Is on the Minnesota Exam Right Now

  Minnesota exams moved to the 2026 NEC on September 8, 2026. Permits moved on August 17. The DLI exam guide gives only one of those two dates.

The code

• NEC 2023 to 2026: What Moved, by Subject and Number

  Minnesota now works and tests on the 2026 NEC. Here are the article and section numbers that changed address since the 2023 book, by subject.

• Minnesota and the Next NEC Edition: What Happens Then

  Minnesota is current on the 2026 NEC. Here is the process the next edition will follow, based on the one the state just ran, and what to watch.

• Minnesota NEC Amendments: The Board Says There Are None

  The Board of Electricity voted unanimously to adopt the 2026 NEC without amendments. The Revisor page still prints the 2023 edition. Both are shown here.

• Which NEC Edition Minnesota Uses for Work Right Now

  Minnesota is on the 2026 NEC for permits filed on or after August 17, 2026. The Revisor page still prints 2023, and both are shown here.

Study

• Minnesota Electrician Practice Questions, Free by Topic

  Free Minnesota electrician practice questions by topic, written to the 2026 NEC numbering the state examinations moved to on September 8, 2026.

• Minnesota Electrician Exam Tools: Calculators and Drills

  Every calculator, game, lab and drill on this site, with one line on what each does and a note on the code edition the numbers 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.

• Minneapolis MN Electrician License, Classes and Permits

  A Minneapolis electrician license comes from the state, not the city. Here are the training routes, the city inspection program and local pay.

• Saint Paul MN Electrician License, Classes and Exam Site

  Saint Paul holds the only electrical exam site in Minnesota. Here are the training routes, the city permit rules and what the work pays locally.

• Rochester MN Electrician License, Classes and Local Rules

  Rochester has a registered electrical JATC with a 60 mile radius rule and no college electrician program. Here is the route from Rochester.

• Duluth MN Electrician License, Classes and Permit Rules

  Duluth licenses no contractors and sends electrical permits to the state. Here are the two JATCs at one address and the college diploma nearby.

• Bloomington MN Electrician License, Classes and the Metro

  Bloomington has no registered electrical apprenticeship of its own and no college electrician program. Here is what a Bloomington candidate does.

• Brooklyn Park MN Electrician License and Nearby Classes

  Brooklyn Park has a Hennepin Tech campus but its electrician diploma is taught in Eden Prairie. Here is the honest map of training near Brooklyn Park.

• Plymouth MN Electrician License and the Nearest Classes

  Plymouth has no electrical apprenticeship and no college program. Here is the nearest of each, the state route and what the metro pays.

• St. Cloud MN Electrician License, Classes and Local Rules

  St. Cloud has the one Minnesota apprenticeship sponsor DLI lists with no aptitude test, plus a college that names the license in its own statement.

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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.

What this page cites

• DLI electrical licensing basics Every license class, what each one covers, and what it costs to apply and to renew. source
• DLI Licensing Examination Guide Wednesdays in St. Paul, the question counts, the five and a half hours, the 70 percent pass mark and the room rules. source
• Minnesota Statutes 326B.33 The experience each class asks for, and the classes closed to new applicants since 1985. source
• DLI electrical codes and standards The 2026 code for permits filed on or after 17 August 2026, and the exam moving to it on 8 September 2026. source