Drywall Installation Contractor (Residential) Licensing

States Licensed

30

of 50 states and D.C.

×

Burden Rank

45th

for average burdens 1st is worst

=

Combined Rank

41st

for states licensed x average burdens 1st is worst

VT NH MA CT RI NJ DE DC MD
Change from 2017 to 2022, if any:
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Burden increased
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Burden decreased
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Mixed burden change
N
New license
E
Eliminated license
2022 Licensing Burden Rank
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Definition

Drywall installation contractors, or hanger contractors, contract with clients to apply plasterboard or other wallboard to ceilings or interior walls of buildings and apply or mount acoustical tiles or blocks, strips or sheets of shock-absorbing materials to ceilings and walls of buildings to reduce or reflect sound. See Appendix B for details on how we observed contractor occupations.

2022 Snapshot

  • 21 unlicensed states
  • Days lost range from 0 (17 states) to 1,460 (4 states)
  • Fees range from $0 (Nebraska) to $995 (Nevada)
  • 14 states require 1+ exam
  • 13 states set minimum age
  • 0 states set minimum grade

Changes Since 2017

  • No licenses created or removed
  • Fees changed most often and usually increased; Arizona and Utah decreased days lost to education and experience
  • Burden rank improved 3 spots because of large education and experience reductions; combined rank stayed the same, largely because of similar burden reductions among similarly ranked occupations

2022 Licensing Burden in Detail

N New License
E Eliminated License
Increase
Decrease

Data Notes: 2022 data collected between February 3, 2020, and March 18, 2022. Fees include charges for application review and license issuance; exams; background checks, credit reports and fingerprinting; recovery fund contributions; third-party certification; and certain fees for training courses. Calendar days lost were estimated based on required education and experience; except for amounts smaller than one day, days lost are rounded to whole days and thus may not reflect very small changes between 2017 and 2022. Appendix A details methods for estimating days lost and calculating burden ranks. Complete data, including revised 2017 data, are available at https://ij.org/report/license-to-work-3/ltw3-data/.

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