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Sprinkler fitter/Washington/Apprenticeships/UA Sprinkler Fitters Local 669 Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee

Registered apprenticeship · Sprinkler Fitter

UA Sprinkler Fitters Local 669 Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee

A registered apprenticeship for the Sprinkler Fitter occupation, on file with Washington L&I.

Registration ActiveApplication window Unknown · the registry publishes no application window for any programShop Union
01

The occupations

Yes, and the certificate is the state's own: Washington requires a certificate to work in this trade, and a journey-level sprinkler fitter applicant needs 8,000 hours of trade-related fire protection sprinkler fitting experience, which is what these hours are. The exam and fees are on the licensing page.3, 4

02

The pay steps

You are paid from day one. Washington publishes the first-step rate and the journey rate. Each program sets the wage steps in between.

Journey rate$55.30/hr2
Steps between: set by the program, not published
Apprentice, step 1$24.89/hr2

The starting rate is 45% of the journey rate. Both dollar figures are published by the registry.

03

The hours

Hours on the job
10,000 hours2
Classroom hours (RSI)
720 hours2
Term
About five years at full-time hoursderived: 10,000 hours at 2,000 working hours a year, which is the figure the state rule uses for a year of a term. The registry states hours, not years.
04

Who runs it, where

Registered with
Washington State L&I, Apprenticeship Registration and Tracking System (ARTS)program 286, occupation record 1700
Address on registration
7050 Oakland Mills Road - Suite 100 Columbia MD 210461The address on the registration is in Maryland; Washington is the state that registered this program.
05

How to apply

1

Read the program's own listing

The registry's listing for this program lists its current contact and any requirements the program adds on top of the state's. Open it on L&I ARTS5.

2

Ask when the window opens

Programs recruit on their own calendars. Use the contact in the registry's listing to ask when applications open. Until a source publishes an application window, we show it as Unknown.

3

See how it counts toward the state certificate

Washington licenses this work separately from the apprenticeship, and the hours you work in this program count toward its experience requirement. The Washington sprinkler fitter licensing page lists the fee, the application form and the exam.

06

Sources

  1. https://data.wa.gov/resource/4mxd-hz2q.jsonread 2026-08-19
  2. https://data.wa.gov/resource/6zih-i79k.jsonread 2026-08-19
  3. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=18.270.020read 2026-08-23
  4. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=18.270.040read 2026-08-23
  5. https://secure.lni.wa.gov/arts-public/#/program-details?programId=286read 2026-08-19

Washington L&I republishes this registry monthly. Every figure above is the registry’s own, read on the day beside it.