Licensing, Simplified: Comprehensive Guides for the Toughest Industries

Licensing facilitates growth and enables reliable performance. Yet maintaining licensing across a dynamic operational footprint can be challenging. Each state handles licensing differently, with unique requirements, processes, and timelines to navigate.

Having the right information in hand makes this task much easier. To help businesses leverage licensing to serve their goals, we’ve published a series of online guides that break down requirements in every U.S. jurisdiction for easy reference. Whatever your plans, our simple charts of requirements and detailed filing instructions cut the task down to size. Take advantage of our data to save time and safeguard your compliance as your business grows and changes.

Why do we share this data?

We share this data because we believe that compliance is a strategic asset that should be accessible to organizations in all industries and stages of development. In addition to our data, we provide software and fully managed compliance services to make licensing even more accessible. Our compliance specialists can provide hands-on assistance with a single filing or take the entire task of maintaining licenses off your plate by completing applications and renewals for you.

Take a few minutes to explore the data we’ve assembled for your industry. If you don’t see your industry here, we can still handle the licenses. We just haven’t published a full guide for your industry yet. Get in touch if you have questions, we’re happy to help!

Architecture – Licensing for individual architects and architectural firms.

Construction – Requirements for general contractors, asbestos abatement, electrical, mechanical, HVAC/R, and plumbing.

Employment and Staffing – Licensing for employment agencies, professional employer organizations (PEOs), and talent agencies.

Energy – Licensing for electricity and natural gas suppliers, brokers, agents, and aggregators.

Engineering – Firm licensing (COAs), individual licensing and other organization requirements for engineering firms.

Insurance – Licensing for insurance professionals, insurance agencies and brokerages, insurance companies, and utilization review companies.

Pharmacy – Licensing requirements for brick-and-mortar pharmacies, mail order and internet pharmacies, wholesale drug distributors, drug manufacturers, and other pharmaceutical organizations.

Land Surveying – Individual surveyor licensing, firm licensing (COAs), and more.

Nonprofit – Charitable solicitation registration and disclosure requirements across all U.S. jurisdictions.

Real Estate – Nationwide licensing requirements for real estate brokerage firms.

Security – Licensing for private investigators and private investigation firms.

Transportation – Licensing for motor carriers and other transportation companies.

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Harbor Compliance is not an accounting or law firm and does not provide tax, financial, or legal advice.