Registered apprenticeship · Plumber
Locklin Technical College Apprenticeship Program, GNJ
A registered apprenticeship for the Plumber occupation, on file with Florida DOE.
The occupations
Not a state license: Florida issues no plumber license to a person. Cities and counties issue journeyman licenses, and the statute names completing a registered apprenticeship as one of three standards for them, together with a proctored exam and approved coursework. The licensing page sets out where both halves stand.3
The pay steps
You are paid from day one. Florida publishes what each program's standards pay at program start and by program completion. The registry does not publish the wage steps in between.
The program-start figure is 69% of the program-completion figure. Both dollar figures come from the registry; we calculated the percentage.
The figure at program start is the rate in this program's registered standards. Florida's minimum wage is higher than it, and pay on the job has to meet the minimum wage in force.
These two figures are what the program standards schedule. What people who finished were actually observed earning is a different measure and is further down.
The hours
- Program length, in hours
- 8,000 hours1
What people earned after finishing
The state matches people who completed a program against its own wage records and reports what those found working in Florida earned: the average of each apprentice's best four quarters, as a year of pay. Completers who moved away, went self-employed or stopped working are not in these figures at all.
- A year after finishing
- $57,727.002
- Five years after finishing
- no wage data: no completers that year, no program that year, or none found working
These are earnings the state observed, not rates set by any program standards. They come from the same annual report as the wage figures above.
Who runs it, where
How to apply
Ask when the window opens
Programs recruit on their own calendars. Ask the program itself when applications open. Until a source publishes an application window, we show it as Unknown.
See where the license actually sits
Florida issues no license to a person in this trade: the state licenses contractors, and cities and counties license journeymen, unevenly. The statute names completing a registered apprenticeship among three standards for the journeyman licenses they are authorized to issue. The Florida plumber licensing page sets out where both halves stand, each with its source.
Sources
- https://www.fldoe.org/file/5626/APPR-Sponsor-Contacts.xlsxread 2026-08-20
- https://www.fldoe.org/file/9904/2425ApprenticeshipReportAppendices.xlsxread 2026-08-20
- https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2025/489.1455read 2026-08-20
- https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Constitution#A10S24read 2026-08-20
- https://floridajobs.org/florida-minimum-wageread 2026-08-20
Florida publishes this registry as two workbooks: a sponsor roster it overwrites in place, and the wage appendix of its annual apprenticeship report. Every figure above is the registry’s own, read on the day beside it.