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Nevada contractor licensing

The Nevada State Contractors Board (NSCB) licenses contracting businesses statewide. A license belongs to the business, carries one or more classifications, and has a monetary limit set by the Board. Each license is qualified by a person — the qualified individual — who is not the license holder. This page does not count Nevada contractors and is not a ranking or Trust Score.

Page generated 2026-09-25. Active directory downloaded 2026-09-25; the Board prints "Information current as of 9/25/2026 10:32:43 AM". Discipline rows keep their own dates. The Board's license search is the live check for current status.

Nevada contractor license (19,213 active license numbers)

From the Board's public Contractor Listing Search with every county and every classification selected — the "Active Directory of Licensed Contractors". It lists active licenses only (status as published: Active 19,212 · Active Probation 1); expired, suspended, revoked, and inactive licenses are not in it. 1,023 license numbers end in a letter; they are separate licenses and are kept exactly as printed. 13,146 licensees list a Nevada address and 5,972 an out-of-state address; an address is not a service area. Phones and street addresses are not republished. Board listing · Verify a license

Classifications

• Class A — General Engineering

  Fixed works requiring specialized engineering knowledge: highways, bridges, dams, pipelines, sewers, grading, and similar projects.

• Class B — General Building

  Structures for the support, shelter, or enclosure of people, animals, or property, using more than two unrelated building trades or crafts.

• Class AB — General Engineering and General Building

  Holds both the A and B scopes on one license.

• Class C — Specialty

  One specialty trade (for example C-1 Plumbing and Heating, C-2 Electrical, C-15 Roofing and Siding) with subclassifications that narrow the scope further.

• E-1 / E-2 — Owner/Builder (as printed in the listing)

  The listing also prints Owner/Builder classifications (E-1 not to exceed three stories, E-2 exceeding three stories). They are shown as published and kept apart from A, B, AB, and C.

One license can carry several classifications. The directory lists 21,937 license-to-classification links across 19,213 licenses and 166 classification labels; links are not contractors and are never added to license counts. Codes and descriptions are kept exactly as the Board prints them. Board classification list

Monetary limit

The Board sets a monetary limit on each license: the largest single contract (or project) the licensee may take on. It is a regulatory limit tied to financial responsibility, not revenue, company size, a quality signal, or a recommended budget.

As printed in the directory: Unlimited (4,022) · $10,000.00 (1,344) · $245,000.00 (1,075) · $25,000.00 (947) · $200,000.00 (923) · $100,000.00 (769) · $500,000.00 (727) · $1,000,000.00 (698) · $50,000.00 (581) · $250,000.00 (551) · $2,000,000.00 (461) · $5,000,000.00 (428). Licensees post a bond and show financial responsibility as a condition of licensure. These are regulatory requirements, not quality indicators.

Qualified individual

A qualified individual is a person (owner, officer, member, manager, or employee) who qualifies the license by examination and experience; the license belongs to the business, not the person. The active directory does not print principals or qualified individuals, so no list of them was loaded and none is counted as a contractor. The Board's license search can be searched by principal or qualified individual, one license at a time. License search

Disciplinary and Board actions (609 rows)

From the Board's public Disciplinary and Board Actions Search, 2023-01-03 through 2026-09-02 (PARTIAL): Administrative Citation 399 · Disciplinary Hearing 208 · Pending Administrative Citation 1 · Pending Disciplinary Hearing 1. 607 rows print a license number; 287 of those match a license in the active directory exactly and show in the lookup above. The other 320 name licenses that are no longer in the active directory, and 2 print no number; those stay standalone. Nothing is matched by name. Penalty details sit on the Board's per-action page and were not loaded. Unlicensed-contractor enforcement is separate and is not in this search. Board search

Complaints

The Board takes complaints against licensed contractors and, separately, against unlicensed contractors. Complaint records are not published and none were loaded; a complaint is not discipline. Only actions the Board takes appear above. File a complaint

What is not claimed

• No count of Nevada contractors. License numbers, classification links, qualified individuals, and discipline rows are different things and are never added.
• A monetary limit, bond, or financial-responsibility requirement is not revenue, size, or quality.
• Missing from the active directory is not the same as unlicensed; expired and inactive licenses were not loaded.
• No record is attached to a contractor by name. No Las Vegas, Reno, or Henderson pages; city and county licensing and permits are not covered.
• No ranking, recommendation, or Trust Score.