An electrician apprenticeship is a paid job with training, and you don't need experience to start one. To work as an apprentice in Utah, you need an apprentice electrician license from the Division of Professional Licensing (DOPL). Utah has 80 registered electrician apprenticeship programs, with 1,766 apprentices in training at the latest federal count.
About $860 a week at 40 hours. The middle half of starting wages is $18.00 to $23.62 an hour.
Median pay at the end
$35.03 an hour
About $1,400 a week at 40 hours.
From 1,740 recent starting wages in 51 programs, and 830 people who finished recently in 39 programs. The 2 figures come from different groups of apprentices, not the same people followed from start to finish.
Note: The Utah Electrical JATC in West Jordan accounts for 54.2% of the recent starting wages behind the median starting wage, so that figure mostly describes its apprentices.
How to get in
Pick 2 or 3 programs near you
Use the list below. Search each program's name with its city to find it.
Each program takes applications in its own way. Ask each program how and when it takes applications.
The Utah Electrical Training Alliance takes applications for the Inside Wireman program all year, and interviews take place when needed during the year.
Get your apprentice electrician license before you start work
As an apprentice electrician in Utah, you must hold this license. You don't need experience and you don't take an exam, but your employer must sign a Verification of Supervision form for your application. The $110 application fee isn't refunded.
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Also trains other trades: these 10 sponsors train more than one trade, so their count includes apprentices in their other trades.A count of 0 means the federal data recorded no apprentices in training, and it doesn't always mean the program has closed.
How one program works: Utah Electrical Training Alliance
Each program runs in its own way. This is how one of them takes apprentices and trains them, as its own pages describe it.
Utah Electrical Training Alliance
1
Apply online
Create an account on the Utah Electrical Training Alliance site, choose the Inside Wireman program and start your application. The application processing fee is $75.
2
Send your documents
Within 30 days of your application, upload your birth certificate, your high school transcript, proof of your diploma or GED and proof of 1 year of algebra with a passing grade.
3
Pass the aptitude test
Once your application is complete, the alliance emails you the next test date. You must pass the Electrical Industry Aptitude Test at the alliance's training center before you can get an interview.
4
Interview for a place
The interviewers look at your appearance, reliability, interest, attitude, cooperativeness and dependability. If you don't meet the minimum requirements, the alliance closes your application without a test or an interview, and you apply again once you meet them.
Total cost of the electrical apprenticeship classes at Mountainland Technical College
$3,585
Mountainland Technical College (MTECH) teaches a 720-hour electrical apprenticeship program over 4 years, and the program meets the state's education requirement. MTECH doesn't find you a job, so you work for an electrical company while you attend evening classes. If you don't have a job yet, you can take the first year of classes in the daytime, but you need a job in the electrical industry before your second year.
To apply to the Utah Electrical Training Alliance, you must be at least 18 years old. You need a high school diploma or GED, 1 year of high school algebra with a passing grade or 1 quarter of college algebra, and a valid driver's license.
If you don't meet the algebra requirement, you can take an algebra course at a college or complete the Electrical Training Alliance Online Tech Math course. You need at least 75% in the Tech Math course or a passing grade in the algebra course, and you send the alliance an official transcript or other proof.
If you live in Utah, you need a Utah driver's license. The alliance doesn't accept an ID card in place of a driver's license. If you live in another state, you can apply with your own state's license, but you may need to travel to Utah for the test and the interview.
If you don't finish your application within 30 days, the alliance closes it and you start a new application. You can upload your documents online, or have your school mail your transcript to the alliance's office in West Jordan.
The Inside Wireman program at the Utah Electrical Training Alliance has 8,000 hours on the job and 720 classroom hours. You attend class 1 week at a time and work about 6 to 8 weeks in between. You pay for your books, modules and tuition each semester, and you get raises as you complete your hours on the job and in class.
To finish the program, you need the journeyman electrician license. Once you meet the terms of your apprenticeship agreement and get the journeyman electrician license, the alliance gives you its Certificate of Completion.
Note: The alliance's contractors work across the whole state, from Logan to St. George, and you can be assigned to work anywhere in Utah.
To work as an electrician in Utah, you need your own license from DOPL, and cities and counties can't require a separate electrician license. You start with the apprentice electrician license, which needs no exam. You can get the journeyman electrician license later with 8,000 hours on the job, 576 classroom hours and 2 exams.
U.S. Department of Labor national apprenticeship data, extract of August 17, 2026: the programs, the apprentice counts, the 2 median wages and the range of starting wages
Utah Division of Professional Licensing apprentice electrician, journeyman electrician and fee schedule pages, commerce.utah.gov, and Utah Code sections 58-55-301 and 58-55-302: the apprentice electrician license, the $110 fee and the journeyman electrician license
The U.S. Department of Labor data has 7 Utah filings whose registration numbers name a different state. No figure counts those filings. Every bar uses the same scale.
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