Registered apprenticeship · Pipe Fitter (Sprinkler Fitter)
Florida Gulf Coast Chapter ABC, Inc., GNJ
A registered apprenticeship for the Pipe Fitter (Sprinkler Fitter) occupation, on file with Florida DOE.
The occupations
No license exists for the person who installs a fire sprinkler system, at any level this site has read. What Florida certifies is the contracting: a Contractor II certificate from the Division of State Fire Marshal covers water sprinkler systems. Whether a county journeyman license reaches this work is an open question, and the licensing page says where it stands.3, 4
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 55% 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
- $87,167.472
- Five years after finishing
- $83,784.002
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 certificate actually sits
Florida issues no state license to the person who installs a fire sprinkler system. What the state certifies is the contracting: a certificate from the Division of State Fire Marshal is required to contract for this work. The Florida sprinkler fitter licensing page sets out that certificate, the one permit the chapter attaches to this work, and where the county question stands, 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/2025/633.336read 2026-08-20
- https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2025/633.102read 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.