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Montana Journeyman Electrician License

✓Written by a licensed IBEW journeyman electrician

Last updated: October 24, 2026

Montana licenses journeyman electricians at the state level. The State Electrical Board, part of the Department of Labor and Industry, issues the license after you pass a PSI exam with 70% correct. The exam has 60 questions and 180 minutes. The exam fee is $75.00 and the application fee is $190.

The facts, from the source

Who licenses

Montana State Electrical Board, Department of Labor and Industry (boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov)

Exam vendor

PSI (test-takers.psiexams.com)

Exam (questions/time)

60 questions, 180 minutes, single exam, computer-based (test-takers.psiexams.com)

Open book / references

Open book. Allowed: the National Electrical Code 2020 edition (tabs and indexes may be used); Montana Building Codes Amendments; "Printreading" by David L. Hittinger based on the 2020 NEC; a silent, nonprinting, nonprogrammable calculator not designed for preprogrammed electrical calculations. Personal highlights, underlining and notes in approved material are allowed. No loose papers. (test-takers.psiexams.com)

Passing score

70% correct (test-takers.psiexams.com)

NEC edition

2020 NEC. The exam reference is the 2020 NEC, and ARM 24.301.401 incorporates NFPA 70 2020 edition. Section 210.12 is amended to delete references to kitchens. (test-takers.psiexams.com)

Fees

Journeyman exam $75.00, paid to PSI, non-refundable, valid one year from payment. Application fee $190. (boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov)

Reciprocity

No list of states is published. The board checklist offers a Substantial Equivalency review for an active, unrestricted license in good standing from a state that requires an exam plus an apprenticeship or training program, 8,000 hours, or 20,000 maintenance hours. (boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov)

What’s on the exam

The exam bulletin lists two content areas: National Electrical Code, and General Trade Knowledge & Theory. No weightings are published.

Confirm these with the board

• Experience required: official sources disagree; confirm with the board
• License fee: not published in the materials we checked

Montana State Electrical Board (Department of Labor and Industry) ↗

Partly verified October 24, 2026: some items couldn’t be confirmed from official sources and are listed above

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