Very little. There is no yearly tuition. The apprentice will pay approximately $1,100 for books each year, and you are required to have a laptop — we do not provide them. The Quad City Electrical JATC is a non-profit organization. The cost of training our students is paid for by our sponsoring contractors through an agreement between labor and management. If you are selected into our program, you can consider yourself as having received a scholarship.

The classes are held at the Quad City Electrical Training Center, located at 1700 52nd Avenue, Moline, IL 61265.

The electrical program covers the spectrum of residential, commercial and industrial electrical installations.

The curriculum includes areas such as Electrical Theory, Print Reading, Grounding, Controls, Communication Equipment, Testing Equipment, Pipe bending and The National Electrical Code. The curriculum also covers Job Safety, First Aid, Job Site Management and Supervision.

Our curriculum is registered with and approved by the U.S. Department of Labor. It's fully developed and constantly updated by a full-time staff at the National Joint Apprenticeship Training & Committee (NJATC).

Each section of the curriculum is written and monitored by NJATC personnel with actual experience and expertise in that particular field. The NJATC is in constant contact with all the local JATC electrical apprenticeship programs throughout the United States and Canada in order to maintain and continue to improve the curriculum.

Yes. Our participating employers require their workers to be tested (both scheduled and random) for substance abuse. Failing a drug test will result in serious penalties up to and including being terminated from the program.

Quad City Electrical Training Center
1700 52nd Avenue
Moline, IL 61265
309-762-3270

Electrical apprentices learn the trade by working alongside skilled and experienced Journeymen Electricians. The work is both indoors and outside. it is usually physical, often dirty and requires you to use your mind as well as your hands. 

You may be:

- Working on a new building just going up or on a job within an existing facility.

- Digging a ditch, handling heavy conduit or equipment, pulling heavy cable, cleaning and sweeping the work area or climbing an extension ladder to install equipment in the ceiling.

- Running conduit and pulling wire for lights and receptacles in a commercial building.

- Troubleshooting issues in an older building.

The work depends on the job, depends on the day and depends on the hour. 

Yes. You'll work a full-time 40-hour work week while attending classes.

As jobs become available. When our sponsoring contractors need apprentices, they contact the JATC. The JATC then places the apprentice with the contractor.

If you are accepted into the apprenticeship program, the JATC will place you with one of our sponsoring contractors.

Any high school graduate or person with a GED who's at least 18 years old, is physically fit and healthy, has completed one year of high school algebra or equivalent with a passing grade, and possesses a valid Driver’s License can become eligible for apprenticeship. Applicants must pass the GAN Human Resources Test administered by the JATC. You do not need any prior experience in the electrical field.

The JATC Apprenticeship Committee will select apprentices from those applicants who best qualify regardless of race, religion, color, national origin or sex.

If a person has previous experience in the trade, but cannot qualify for apprenticeship, he or she may contact IBEW Local Union 145 for further information on opportunities within the industry. The phone number for the IBEW 145's Union Hall in Moline is 309.736.4239.

All applications are checked to verify compliance with minimum requirements. Those who qualify and who have submitted the required documents are eligible to take GAN Human Resources Test administered by the JATC. Those who achieve qualifying scores on the aptitude test are scheduled for an interview with the JATC Apprenticeship Committee. Once interviewed, applicants will be given an interview score. The score will be recorded on the ranking list. As positions become available, apprentices are selected from the ranking list based on their interview score.

The Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (JATC) takes applications all year and interviews all qualified applicants after the application cycle is complete.

An apprentice is paid a percentage of what a Journeyman earns. The percentage is determined by the apprentice's progress in training. Each Apprentice will receive a substantial pay raise one time per year. At the completion of apprenticeship, the graduate will advance to journeyman level and be paid the full wage scale.

All apprentices are covered under the same health insurance and retirement pensions as Journeymen. Health insurance takes effect approximately six months after the apprentice is indentured. The retirement pensions include both international pensions and local pensions.

Yes. Our program is recognized by the VA. Many of our students receive their Veteran’s Benefits while participating in our program.