Colorado — statewide
Colorado State Electrical Board, Division of Professions and Occupations
In short
Colorado State Electrical Board, Division of Professions and Occupations issues 2 permits we publish for Colorado — statewide, last verified 2026-09-03. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Contractor License — Colorado position (licensed locally)only if it applies to you | Colorado State Electrical Board, Division of Professions and Occupations | No fee | set by the city or county | 2026-09-03 |
| Electrical Contractor Registrationonly if it applies to you | Colorado State Electrical Board, Division of Professions and Occupations | Fee not published — Colorado's licensing division publishes no fee schedule and quotes amounts only inside its authenticated application checkout | 3 years — all licenses and registrations expire on 30 September | 2026-09-03 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
General Contractor License — Colorado position (licensed locally)
The regulatory agencies department's licensing and permitting page lists the credentials it issues alphabetically, with electricians and plumbers (each including contractors) among them, and its list contains no general contractor entry. Municipal and county building departments license contractors instead, and Denver shows how sharply: its contractor licensing page states that Denver does not accept or reciprocate contractor licenses or certificates from other counties or states, that licenses and certificates renew every one to three years depending on type, and that a Colorado electrical or plumbing license substitutes for Denver's own supervisor certificate. A contractor working across the Front Range needs a separate license in each jurisdiction.
Electrical Contractor Registration
Electrical is one of only two construction trades Colorado licenses, and to perform electrical contracting you must be registered as an electrical contractor as well as employing licensed electricians. No fee is recorded because none is published anywhere: the licensing division's standing instruction is that fees are on the respective applications and forms, the posted forms carry no fee table, and the rules refer only to the current fee. The amount appears solely inside the authenticated checkout. What is published is the permit side, on a schedule effective December 2024 — new residential wiring runs $146 up to a thousand square feet, $218 to fifteen hundred and $292 to two thousand, and the inspection fee doubles if the permit is filed after work starts. The state only inspects where the local jurisdiction runs no electrical inspection programme of its own. Plumbing works the same way, on a two-year cycle expiring the last day of February in odd years.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Colorado — statewide
- Phone
- (303) 894-7800
- Website
- dpo.colorado.gov/Electrical
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- City and County of Denver — contractor licensing, which does not reciprocate with other Colorado jurisdictionsCity and County of Denver · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
- Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies — the complete list of licenses and permits it issues, which contains no general contractorColorado Department of Regulatory Agencies · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
- Colorado State Electrical Board — applications and the three-year license cycle expiring 30 SeptemberColorado Division of Professions and Occupations · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
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Colorado jurisdictions
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