Massachusetts — statewide
Massachusetts Office of Public Safety and Inspections, Division of Occupational Licensure
In short
Massachusetts Office of Public Safety and Inspections, Division of Occupational Licensure issues 1 permit we publish for Massachusetts — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Construction Supervisor Licenseonly if it applies to you | Massachusetts Office of Public Safety and Inspections, Division of Occupational Licensure | $150 initial license for three years; $100 to renew every two | 3 years for a first license, then 2 years on each renewal | 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
Construction Supervisor License
This is the credential that lets a permit be pulled, and it is not the same thing as home improvement contractor registration — the state says so in terms and warns that the two are not interchangeable. The first license runs three years and every renewal two, which is an unusual asymmetry. Before the license there is a $23 application and an exam at $75 for the unrestricted or restricted paper and $65 for a specialty, none of it refundable, and the license must be claimed within a year of passing. Practising on an expired license is prohibited outright; you may renew up to a year late without penalty, a further year for $100, and beyond two years you retake the exam. Specialty categories cover masonry, roofing, windows and siding, demolition, solid fuel appliances and insulation, each with a narrow scope — a masonry license does not permit building a masonry building. Testing moved to the tenth edition of the building code on 1 January 2025, so older study material is obsolete.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Massachusetts — statewide
- Phone
- (617) 727-3200
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.
- 780 CMR 110.R5 — licensing of construction supervisorsMassachusetts Board of Building Regulations and Standards · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
- 801 CMR 4.00 — rates, the Commonwealth's consolidated schedule of licensing board feesCommonwealth of Massachusetts · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
Other Massachusetts statewide offices
- Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Corporations Division
- Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Division of Food Protection
- Massachusetts Board of Registration of Cosmetology and Barbering, Division of Occupational Licensure
- Massachusetts Board of Registration in Veterinary Medicine, Division of Occupational Licensure
- Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care
- Massachusetts Department of Revenue
- Massachusetts Division of Standards, Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation
- Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, Home Improvement Contractor Program
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