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Washington contractor license records
These records come from L&I's contractor licensing datasets. L&I's general file also carries records that have expired, been re-licensed under a new number, or gone out of business; this directory publishes the ACTIVE records, plus the SUSPENDED records labeled as suspended. Expired and superseded records are held out of the current directory.
Source: Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) — L&I contractor licensing datasets (data.wa.gov), file dated November 3, 2026. Records change; the board’s own L&I Verify a Contractor is the current source.
Licensed or registered — two different credentials
Washington runs two different credentials through L&I, and this site always uses L&I's own word for them. Construction contractors are REGISTERED: registration records the business with the state together with its bond and insurance. Electrical, plumbing, and elevator contractors are LICENSED: a license is the state credential for those trades. A registration is not a license, and this site never prints it as one.
L&I updates these datasets three times a day. This site republishes dated snapshots of them.
Registered is not licensed
Most Washington construction contractors hold a registration, not a license. Registration means the business is on file with L&I with a bond and insurance recorded. It is not a state examination or a skills credential. Electrical, plumbing, and elevator work is the licensed tier.
A suspension line in L&I's data is not a discipline finding
L&I's records include suspension entries that are licensing-workflow milestones. Discipline — infractions and citations — is published by L&I through a separate channel and is not part of these datasets, so no record on this site presents a suspension entry as a disciplinary action.
Records the board lists as SUSPENDED: 9,600 suspended records → — published with their recorded status, never presented as current.
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What if there is no record?
A name or number missing from these pages is not in L&I's ACTIVE or SUSPENDED contractor records as of November 3, 2026. It may be expired, re-licensed under a new number, recorded under a different name, or outside these datasets. Absence here is a statement about these files — not about any business's right to do any particular work.
To check the board’s live records, use L&I Verify a Contractor. If the board’s file should contain a record that is missing here, tell us — corrections are answered within two business days.