Getting licensed as a social worker in Vermont

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Your first license

Licensed Master Social Worker (registers for supervised practice to accrue LICSW hours)

LMSW

Exam required before the license

The ASWB Masters exam is required before the license.

Known fees

Fees the Vermont Office of Professional Regulation, Social Work publishes for the LMSW
LMSW application/licensure fee$120
ASWB Masters examination$230
Known total$350

What else it takes

Supervised hours
3,000 hours, 2,000 client contact, supervision: no single total, for the LICSW
ASWB exam level
Masters
Licensure compact
Member jurisdictionMultistate licenses are not yet being issued. Last checked against the compact's own site.
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Next step

Hold a master's or doctoral degree from an accredited social work education program (26 V.S.A. Section 3205(1)). Pass the examination(s) designated by the Director within five years prior to applying for licensure (26 V.S.A. Section 3205(2)) - the ASWB Masters examination.

The ladder

Vermont has 2 rungs. 2 need an ASWB exam.

  1. masters

    LMSW

    ASWB Masters

    Licensed Master Social Worker (registers for supervised practice to accrue LICSW hours). Practice is supervised at this rung.

  2. clinical

    LICSW

    ASWB Clinical

    Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker.

Requirements change

Nothing on our law calendar changes Vermont's exam requirement today. The change that does touch you is national: ASWB launched the 2026 exams on August 3, 2026 with three content areas and 122 items, and held fees at $230 Masters and $260 Clinical. ASWB's announcement.

Law calendar read . If Vermont moves, this page moves with it.

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Vermont asks for 3,000 hours of supervised experience. Supervision hours: no single total.

Checked against the published rule. Last checked September 27, 2026.

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Programs in Vermont

How first-timers from each accredited program here did on the ASWB exam. A rate built on fewer than 10 first-time exams is one or two people, so those programs show how close they are to that floor instead of a percent. Source: ASWB, 2025 report.

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Sources

We read the board's own pages. Nothing here is a guess.

SWTPA is not affiliated with any state board or with ASWB. Requirements change; the board's page is the source of record. This record is also available as JSON.

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