Washington L&I coverage

Washington Contractor License Lookup

Search Washington State L&I contractor records by license number or business name. Check status and available construction, electrical, plumbing, or elevator licensing information for free.

Verify a contractor license

Free public lookup: up to 10 search or verification requests per IP each UTC day.

Results are informational and should be confirmed against the official Washington State Department of Labor & Industries record before making a hiring or compliance decision.

Authority

Washington State Department of Labor & Industries

Live coverage

Statewide construction, electrical, plumbing, and elevator contractors

Refresh cadence

Daily at 6:00 PM Pacific

Statewide Washington contractor scope

The official L&I source contains statewide construction, electrical, plumbing, and elevator contractor records. Construction records include general and specialty classifications; the dataset is not limited to contractors whose mailing address is in Washington.

StateLicense preserves L&I's raw status and type codes while mapping common identity, status, specialty, date, contact, authority, and jurisdiction fields into the normalized API contract.

Washington L&I source and freshness

Washington records refresh daily at 6:00 PM Pacific and retain source and record timestamps. Use those timestamps to evaluate freshness and confirm consequential decisions through the official L&I verification tool.

  • Construction registrations include general and specialty classifications.
  • Electrical, plumbing, and elevator records remain distinguishable by license type.
  • Status mappings can include active, expired, suspended, inactive, and revoked records.

Information returned by the lookup

InformationAvailability
License status and numberWhen supplied by the authority
Business and principal identityWhen supplied by the authority
License type and specialtyWhen supplied by the authority
Issue, expiration, and suspension datesWhen supplied by the authority
Phone and mailing locationWhen supplied by the authority
Source and record timestampsWhen supplied by the authority

Freshness: Daily at 6:00 PM Pacific. Field availability depends on the source record; unavailable values are not inferred.

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Add the same source-linked records to onboarding, compliance, or internal operations workflows through the live StateLicense API.

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Washington Contractor License Lookup FAQ

Which Washington contractor records can I search?

Current statewide L&I coverage includes construction, electrical, plumbing, and elevator contractor records.

Can I search by business name?

Yes. Use the business-name tab to find possible Washington records, then confirm the license number, identity, type, status, and location.

How often does Washington data refresh?

Washington L&I records refresh daily at 6:00 PM Pacific. Each result includes freshness information.