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Skilled trades in Tennessee

SkilledLadder has guides for 2 trades in Tennessee so far: electrician and plumber. Each one has its own license and its own rules.

No sprinkler fitter guide for Tennessee yet. The sprinkler fitter guides cover Florida and Washington so far. See the sprinkler fitter guides

Sources

  1. The licensing boards and agencies listed in each trade's guide: who issues the license
  2. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: median pay and jobs
  3. U.S. Department of Labor, national apprenticeship data, extract of August 17, 2026: the registered programs

Pay and jobs: median pay counts every worker in the trade on a payroll in the state, from first-year apprentices to masters, so it isn't what an apprentice earns. Jobs counts filled positions on payrolls. Someone with 2 jobs counts twice, and the self-employed aren't in it.

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