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Electrician Low Voltage Fire/Security
On L&I’s approved list for the limited energy (06) certificate, for low voltage work such as alarms, security and data. It counts for up to half of the 4,000 work hours the certificate needs, with no apprenticeship.
Total cost
$19,324
$15,239 tuition + $2,501 fees + $1,583 books and supplies, for the whole program. Approved programs cost $13,623 to $59,205.
Length
24 months
Associate degree. Online.
How past students did
34 people finished it in the latest 3 years of data, about 11 a year.
Finished
85%
of everyone who left it
Working
91%
with a job 7 to 9 months later
Pay
$29 an hour
median, $53,700 a year
Top industries for graduates Administrative Support 43% · Construction 37% · Manufacturing 10% · Other Industries 10%
How to read these
Finished is the share of students who completed the program, out of everyone who left it. Working is the share of those who finished with a job 7 to 9 months later, not counting self-employed people. Pay is the median the state publishes for the program. All of them cover the latest 3 years of data. The state publishes results by type of program at each school. Here the type is “Fire Systems Technology.” Results cover both of Clover Park’s fire and security programs.
What it counts for
- The limited energy (06) certificate needs 4,000 hours of work as a trainee, supervised at least 75% of the time, and 48 hours of approved classes before the exam. No apprenticeship is needed.
- This program counts for up to half of those hours, 2,000 at most, and toward this one certificate only.
- Later, if you join an apprenticeship to become a general electrician, it must count the certificate’s 4,000 hours toward its 8,000.
- Its description says it prepares you for an apprenticeship.
- You need an L&I training certificate the whole time you’re enrolled.
Before you pay
Check you can get in
The fire and security certificate first, or the instructor’s permission, and an orientation before you start.
The school’s words
Successfully completion of the Electrician Low Voltage Fire Security certificate, or by Instructor's permission. A mandatory orientation is required before admission to the program.
Get a training certificate
Apply to L&I for an electrical training certificate before you start, and keep it for as long as you’re enrolled.
Apply at L&I (L&I’s site)Get your total in writing
The state lists $19,324 for the whole program. Ask the school for your own total in writing before you sign.
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Program details
- School
- Clover Park Technical College
- Award
- Associate degree (AAT)
- Length
- 24 months, 126 credits
- Where
- Lakewood and online
- How it’s taught
- Online
- Evening or weekend classes
- No
- Approved to train veterans
- Yes
- Career Bridge number
- 939
How the school describes it
Prepares students for positions in the electronic fire/security industry as low voltage electrician apprentices, service technicians, or installers. Students participate in hands-on training with advanced equipment, techniques, and programming related to burglar alarms, fire alarms, card access, and closed-circuit TV. The program prepares students for careers as alarm-system installers and service technicians. Included in this program are academic courses in communication (English composition, speech), quantitative reasoning (math), and social sciences (psychology, sociology) that provide knowledge and abilities that enhance personal development and serve as a foundation for technical skills. The Electrician Low Voltage Fire/Security Degree Program is approved as a Limited Energy (06) specialty electrical training program in the state of Washington. Upon successful completion of the program, graduates applying to become a Limited Energy (06) specialty electrician can be credited with 1,815 hours of work experience.
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info@skilledladder.comThis program or an apprenticeship
This program
You pay
$19,324
in total
- 24 months
- Counts for up to half your hours
An apprenticeship
You’re paid
$14.60 – $24.75 an hour
on day one
- Paid work from day one
- Every hour counts toward your certificate
Cost: Career Bridge, the state’s training directory · Pay: L&I’s apprenticeship registry, across 34 programs
Other programs for this certificate
See all 31 programs- Electrician Low Voltage Fire/SecurityClover Park Technical College · Lakewood and online
$13,623total cost
15 monthsCertificate
- Information Technology & Communication SystemsPerry Technical Institute · Yakima
$53,543total cost
24 monthsAssociate degree
Sources
- Career Bridge, program 939, the state’s training directory: cost, length, award, place, how it’s taught, entry rules, results, where graduates work and the school’s description
- L&I, approved electrical construction trade training schools: this program’s approval and certificate, the credit of up to half the work hours, for one certificate only, and the training certificate while enrolled
- L&I, electrician certificates: the 4,000 hours, the 75% supervision and the 48 hours of classes for a specialty
- L&I, electrical apprenticeship: each apprenticeship’s committee decides school credit, and must count a specialty certificate’s 4,000 hours
- L&I, electrical trainee: the training certificate
- L&I, apprenticeship registry: what the 34 registered programs pay on day one
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