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The Wyoming state government issues no general contractor license. The Wyoming Business Council, which state law makes a state instrumentality, says the state of Wyoming does not do contractor licensing, with electrical work as the exception, and that the option to license contractors is left to the local jurisdiction of the construction site.
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No state general contractor license
The Wyoming state government issues no general contractor license. The Wyoming Business Council, which state law makes a state instrumentality, answers the question how to secure a Wyoming general contractor’s license by saying contractor licensing (except electrical) is not done by the state of Wyoming and that the option to license contractors is deferred to the local jurisdiction where the construction activity is to take place. A Wyoming statute requires each county, city, town and other government entity that issues licenses to contractors to recognize a license issued to a contractor by another one in Wyoming, in accordance with conditions the statute goes on to list.
No state general contractor license. The Wyoming state government issues no general contractor license. The Wyoming Business Council, which state law makes a state instrumentality, answers the question how to secure a Wyoming general contractor’s license by saying contractor licensing (except electrical) is not done by the state of Wyoming and that the option to license contractors is deferred to the local jurisdiction where the construction activity is to take place. A Wyoming statute requires each county, city, town and other government entity that issues licenses to contractors to recognize a license issued to a contractor by another one in Wyoming, in accordance with conditions the statute goes on to list.
How do I secure a Wyoming general contractor’s license?
The council is a body corporate operating as a state instrumentality operated solely for the public benefit.
W.S. 9-12-103(a) · Official text · retrieved 2026-10-04
Each county, city, town and other government entity that issues licenses to contractors shall recognize a license issued to a contractor by another county, city, town or other government entity in Wyoming, in accordance with the following:
W.S. 16-6-1101(b) · Official text · retrieved 2026-10-04
The Wyoming state government issues no general contractor license. The Wyoming Business Council addresses that point. Its startup resources page poses the question of how to obtain a Wyoming general contractor's license, and its reply is that the state of Wyoming does not carry out contractor licensing, with electrical work set apart as an exception [1].
The Council is named as the agency on this page because the statement is its own. State law makes the Council a state instrumentality [2].
Where the licensing choice sits
The same Council answer goes on to say where the decision lies instead. According to the Council, whether to license contractors is an option left to the local jurisdiction in which the construction activity is set to happen [1]. The answer does not name any particular jurisdiction, and this page names none either.
A separate Wyoming statute speaks to the government bodies that issue licenses to contractors. It applies to each county, city, town and other government entity that issues them, and it directs each one to recognize a license that another such entity in Wyoming issued to a contractor [3]. That recognition is not unconditional: the statute ties it to a list of conditions that follow the opening sentence [3]. This page prints only that opening sentence and says nothing about what the conditions contain.
The Council's answer and the recognition statute can be read side by side. The state government does not issue a general contractor license, and the Council places the option to license contractors with local jurisdictions [1]. The statute then addresses how the counties, cities, towns and other government entities that issue licenses to contractors treat each other's licenses [3].
Neither the Council's answer nor the statute says that construction work in Wyoming goes unlicensed, and this page does not say so either.
