About StateLicensed
An independent reference site for occupational licensing requirements: what it takes to become licensed as a CNA, an electrician, a cosmetologist, or any of a dozen other regulated trades and health occupations, in any of the 50 states plus DC.
Mission
Licensing requirements are set by 51 different jurisdictions, published on 51 different board websites, in 51 different formats, and none of it is federally consolidated. The mission is to make that legible: one structured record per occupation per state, every fact dated and traceable to the board that actually issues the license. Not a summary of the rules, but the rules, organized.
Who runs this
StateLicensed is a small, independent project built and maintained by Max, a software engineer who runs the data pipeline behind the site. Max holds a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering and a Master of Arts in Linguistics, with 20 years of professional software development experience, most of it spent building systems that turn large public datasets into something people can actually use. Earlier career work included technical writing and interpreting in industrial settings, and several years in international procurement of industrial equipment, which is direct exposure to several of the licensed trades this site covers.
This is the fourth data-driven reference site Max has built on the same method: ingest primary public data, model it with provenance attached to every field, and publish it as pages a person can actually check. The others cover college outcomes, undergraduate ROI, and trade programs, drawing on IPEDS, the Department of Education's College Scorecard, Census PSEO earnings records, and Bureau of Labor Statistics wage and employment data.
StateLicensed applies that method to occupational licensing. Every requirement record is compiled from the issuing state board's own publications, never from aggregators or forums; each fact group carries its own source URL and the date it was checked; records are schema-validated before they can build, and no record is published without a verification date. Max spot-checks a sample from every occupation before its wave goes live. Where a figure is cited, the board page it came from is linked in context. If you spot an error, write in and it gets fixed.
What this site is not
StateLicensed is not a licensing board, a training provider, a school, or a government affiliate, and it cannot process, expedite, or advise on an application. It is a citation layer on top of the boards' own published requirements. Nothing here is legal advice: for anything that affects your application, confirm with the issuing board, whose contact details are on every state page. How every fact is sourced and verified is documented in full on the methodology page, and the datasets behind the site are listed on data sources.
Corrections
If a figure here disagrees with a board's own page, that is a bug and it gets fixed. Email contact@statelicensed.org with the page URL and the fact in question, or see the contact page for what to include.
Page last updated 2026-07-28.