Pass the Michigan Journeyman Electrician exam
Michigan asks for 75%, the highest pass mark of the four states we cover, and tests its own Part 8 amendments and two licensing statutes next to the NEC. You bring bound books with factory tabs only. These 629 questions were written for that room.
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How licensing works in Michigan
Michigan licenses electricians through LARA's Bureau of Construction Codes. You apply to LARA first ($40); once approved, you schedule the exam with PSI ($100, non-refundable). You get two attempts inside a year before you must reapply.
To sit, you must be at least 20 and show 8,000 hours of experience over at least four years under a licensed electrician (2016 PA 407, §339.5707).
The one thing candidates get wrong: they study the NEC and skip the state layer. Part 8 rewrites 28 NEC sections, and PA 407 and PA 230 are on the exam. National prep does not cover any of it.
Licensing and exam: Journeyman Electrician
- Eligibility
- 20+ years old · 8,000 h over 4+ years
- Exam format
- 80 multiple-choice questions, one form
- Pass mark
- 75%
- Time
- 150 min
- Fee
- $100 exam (non-refundable) + $40 LARA application
- Attempts
- Two within a year, then reapply
- References allowed
- NEC 2023, Part 8, PA 407, PA 230: bound, factory tabs only
- Code edition
- NEC 2023 as amended by Part 8 (effective 12 March 2024)
2016 PA 407 §339.5707 and PSI bulletin 4376 (effective 20 Aug 2026), read 10 Sep 2026.
The Michigan exam, weighted the way PSI weights it.
PSI publishes no topic weights for Michigan, so we do not invent them. These are the thirteen topics named in the bulletin, with the book each one lives in.
Journeyman Electrician
80 items · 150 min · 75%Every practice question is tagged to one of these domains, so your study time follows the exam.
Five questions from the Michigan bank
Answer one and read the whole explanation, exactly as the app shows it after every question.
WorkUgo5 questions from the Michigan bank
Answer, then read the full explanation exactly as the app shows it after every question: the rationale, why each other option fails, and the worked solution on calculations.
What makes Michigan different
Michigan-amendment notes on every affected question
For 230.85, CSST bonding and NM cable you see the national rule and the Michigan rule side by side, so you learn the one the inspector enforces.
Emergency disconnect for one- and two-family dwellings: three permitted forms, including a meter disconnect, with a marking requirement.
Removes the meter-disconnect option and prescribes the exact marking text. On the Michigan exam, the Part 8 version is the answer.
State-law questions written from PA 407, PA 230 and the Part 8 rules
70 items in the bank cover licensing, permits, inspection and administration, the topic national prep leaves out.
- 2016 PA 407 · 339.5707
- 2016 PA 407 · 339.5731(2)
- 2016 PA 407 · 339.5737(2)
- 1972 PA 230
- Michigan Part 8 · 80.19(e)
Sample question 2 above is one of them.
Explanations teach where a rule lives in the book
You cannot tab or highlight, so every explanation names the article, table and column as well as what the rule says.
Then 300.5(B) for why a buried raceway is a wet location. Two turns of the book, both named.
What a Michigan electrician earns
Wages for electricians employed in Michigan, all experience levels, union and non-union.
BLS OEWS, May 2025, Electricians (SOC 47-2111), Michigan statewide.
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- 629 verified Michigan questions (474 knowledge · 155 calculation)
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- Bookmarks, flags and history
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Questions about the Michigan exam
Facts from the PSI bulletin, LARA and 2016 PA 407. Something missing? Write to us.
Contact us75%. That is 60 of 80 questions right in 150 minutes, the highest pass mark of the four states we cover.
Bound paper copies of the NEC 2023, the Michigan Part 8 rules, 2016 PA 407 and 1972 PA 230. Factory tabs and markings only: no highlighting, no notes, no tabs you added. The NEC Handbook is not allowed.
NEC 2023, as amended by the Michigan Electrical Code Rules, Part 8, in effect since 12 March 2024. Our questions and explanations cite that edition.
Part 8 is the set of Michigan rules that adopts the NEC and changes 28 of its sections for the state. Examples: 230.85 emergency disconnect (no meter-disconnect option, exact marking text), 250.104(B) CSST gas-piping bonding, and the NM cable use lists in 334.10 and 334.12(A).
Yes. The bulletin lists Michigan licensing law as a topic: 2016 PA 407 (the Skilled Trades Regulation Act), 1972 PA 230 (the construction code act) and Part 8 administration. We have 70 questions written from those texts.
8,000 hours of experience over at least four years under a licensed electrician, and you must be at least 20 years old (2016 PA 407, §339.5707). You apply to LARA for $40 before scheduling with PSI.
Two attempts within a year of your LARA approval. After that you reapply. Each sitting costs $100 and the fee is non-refundable.
The 2026 PSI bulletin does not state a calculator policy. Plan for a basic on-screen calculator at most. Our worked solutions key every step the way you would on a plain calculator.
Yes. Every question touched by a Part 8 amendment carries a note showing the national rule and the Michigan rule side by side, and the reference pill cites the Part 8 section.
No. WorkUgo is an independent exam-preparation platform. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by or approved by LARA, the Bureau of Construction Codes or PSI.
Yes. The practice runner, explanations and progress pages are built for a phone screen, and a session resumes where you left it.
A move to the 2026 NEC is in rulemaking (2026-17-LR) but LARA has not filed it. Until it does, the exam stays on NEC 2023 with Part 8. Our explanations already note where a section number moves in 2026.