Methodology

Sourcing tiers

Every requirement on this site is stored with the URL it was verified against, the date of verification, and one of two tiers:

• Official (shown as [src]): traced directly to a .gov or licensing-board page, a statute, an administrative rule, or an official board form. This is the standard for fees, hours, deadlines, and thresholds.
• Corroborated (shown as [src†]): the official source was unreachable or imprecise, but multiple independent third-party sources agree. We label these so you can apply your own skepticism.

There is a third category you will never see here: unverified. When we can't confirm a number — for example, Georgia's GC-tier application fee while the GOALS portal is the only authority — we say “we couldn't verify this” and point you at the official channel, rather than repeating a figure that floats around third-party sites. We also flag third-party figures we found to be affirmatively wrong (like the stale $500,000 Georgia Limited-Tier cap).

Freshness

Hover any [src] marker to see when that specific fact was last verified. Rules and fees change between our verification passes — that's why every page links the official board and tells you to confirm there before acting.

Who writes this

CredentialGC is researched and written by Ilan Sender, an independent researcher. He is not a lawyer and not a licensing official, and nothing here is legal advice. Authority on this site comes from transparent sourcing, not from credentials we don't have. See about.

Affiliate policy

• Some provider links may become affiliate links — if you buy through them, we may earn a commission. Each page with provider links carries a disclosure before the first link.
• Commissions never influence the comparisons: providers with no affiliate program appear in the same tables, on the same terms, and we publish facts that work against course vendors when they are true (e.g., Georgia commercial GCs owe zero CE hours; North Carolina's mandatory 2-hour course can only be bought from the Board's exclusive vendor).
• All affiliate relationships are self-serve programs. We have no business-development relationships with, and accept no payments or free products from, any vendor we compare.
• Where no affiliate relationship exists yet, links are plain links to the provider's site — we never use tracking links we don't actually have.

See the guides

This methodology backs every state guide:

• Florida general contractor license requirements
• Georgia general contractor license requirements
• North Carolina general contractor license requirements

Corrections

Found an error or a rule that changed? Email hello@credentialgc.com. Verified corrections are applied to the data (with a fresh last-verified date), not buried.