19,913 Washington contractor licenses
Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (published on data.wa.gov) publishes Washington's contractor-license registry as one open-data file — 161,374 rows, fetched here on 2026-09-18. That is far too many rows to publish in one place, so this page carries an alphabetical slice: the first 800 businesses per letter of the business name, 19,913 in all, tabled in full on the letter pages below — each with its license number, verbatim status, expiration date, license type and city, exactly as the state publishes them. Statuses are the registry's own wording, so rows read "ACTIVE" and so on exactly as published.
License status — the full file
Counted from all 161,374 rows of Washington's file with a group-by query at collect time on 2026-09-18 — not from the slice. The counts sum to the total; statuses are the registry's own wording.
| Status (registry's wording) | Licenses |
|---|---|
| ACTIVE | 76,003 |
| EXPIRED | 61,357 |
| SUSPENDED | 9,669 |
| RE-LICENSED | 9,390 |
| OUT OF BUSINESS | 4,709 |
| INACTIVE | 131 |
| SUPERCEDED | 95 |
| PASSED AWAY | 15 |
| RESTORED FROM ARCHIVED | 4 |
| REVOKED DUE DEPT ERR | 1 |
| Total | 161,374 |
License type — the full file
Counted the same way across all 161,374 rows. The type wording is Washington's own.
| License type (registry's wording) | Licenses |
|---|---|
| CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTOR | 148,957 |
| ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR | 9,218 |
| PLUMBING CONTRACTOR | 3,075 |
| ELEVATOR CONTRACTOR | 124 |
The slice, by letter of the business name
Every letter page tables its slice in full (the first 800 businesses of that letter in the file's own name order). Businesses whose names start with a digit or punctuation mark are not part of the slice.
What the columns mean
License type is Washington's own trade wording, kept verbatim — the same trade carries different labels in different states. Status is the registry's own flag: active meant in good standing when the file was fetched (76,003 of the state's 161,374 licenses were active), and every other flag is kept as the registry prints it. Expiration dates are the renewal dates the registry publishes, normalized to ISO format; nothing else is changed. The source file also publishes address and phone columns; they are kept in the dataset behind this page but are not rendered on these public pages. For a binding check of any single license, use Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (published on data.wa.gov)'s official lookup service.