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What your license actually requires, and who says so.

CE hours, renewal cycles and fees for regulated professions, taken from the boards that publish them and dated so you can check us.

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  • 103 requirement pages
  • 51 jurisdictions
  • last verified 25 Jul 2026
Sample record Alabama · Real Estate Agent
CE hours
15
Cycle
2 yrs
Fee
$185
Alabama Real Estate Commission (AREC), read 25 Jul 2026
What you get

Sourced from the boards themselves

A figure with no source and no date is a rumour. Every number here can be walked back to the board that published it. Here is that walk, for a Real Estate Agent renewing in Alabama.

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The National Archives in Washington. Every state board keeps a register of its own, and publishes the rules that go with it. Mike Peel via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.
  1. The figure 15 hours every two years, for a Real Estate Agent in Alabama.
  2. The board that sets it Alabama Real Estate Commission (AREC) arec.alabama.gov Not a reseller, not an aggregator, and never shown as a seal or a logo. A name and a link is the whole relationship.
  3. The page it is printed on AREC, Course Requirements One of 5 sources cited on that page, each with a note on what it establishes.
  4. The day we read it 25 Jul 2026 Boards change fees and hours without announcing it, so the date is part of the figure. Where a rule is genuinely ambiguous, we print the ambiguity instead of the tidy answer.

All 103 requirement pages on this site are built from that same chain. CredentialDesk is independent, and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of any licensing board.

What's on a requirement page

One page per profession per state. No account, no paywall, and nothing to scroll past before the number you came for.

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Renewal is where the hours, the cycle and the fee all land at once. StockSnap.io. CC0.

  1. The hours, the cycle, the fee

    How many CE hours your board wants, which topics are mandatory, how long your cycle runs, and what renewal costs. On one page, for your state.

  2. The board's own link, and a date

    Every figure names the board that published it and carries the day we last read it. Where a board's wording is ambiguous, we say so instead of picking the tidy answer.

  3. What the deadline actually means

    What counts as late, what a lapse does to your ability to work, and how reinstatement runs in your state. The parts a postcard leaves out.

Where we stand

Nearly every site that tells you your CE requirement is also selling you the CE. That shapes what they tell you, and what they leave out. Here is the deal we offer instead.

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  • We do

    We cite your board, and date it

    Every hour count and fee links to the board that published it, with the date we last checked. A figure with no source and no date is a rumour, and this is not a site for rumours.

  • We do

    We publish what we don't know

    Where a rule is genuinely unclear, or a board contradicts itself, we print that instead of smoothing it over. You can act on a known gap. You cannot act on a confident guess.

  • We don't

    We don't sell CE courses

    We are not a course provider. When we point to one, we point to a provider your board actually approved, not whoever pays the most.

  • We don't

    We don't want your details

    No account, no password, no licence number, no email. Look up what you need and leave. There is no list here because we never asked you to join one.

What we cover today

We would rather publish a small number of requirements that are right than a directory of guesses. These counts come straight from what is published on this site right now.

Professions
3
Jurisdictions
51
Boards cited
103
Sources linked
400
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Check anything here against your board. We link every source so that you can, and we would rather you caught us being wrong than trusted us and missed a deadline.

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Renewal is set by your state, not by your profession alone, so the state page is where the two meet: 51 jurisdictions, each with every profession we publish for it.

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The Minnesota State Capitol in Saint Paul. Renewal is written state by state, which is why your state page is the one that matters. McGhiever via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.

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