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  "_schema": {
    "about": "Social work licensing requirements per US jurisdiction, for the FIRST credential an MSW graduate holds in that jurisdiction.",
    "nullRule": "null means we have not read that figure off the board's own page. It never means zero. Do not substitute a default, an average or another state's number.",
    "attribution": "Social Work Test Prep Academy is not affiliated with any state licensing board or with ASWB. We read each board's published pages and record what they say; the board's page is the source of record. Requirements change.",
    "fields": {
      "abbr": "Two-letter USPS code, uppercase.",
      "name": "Jurisdiction name.",
      "url": "Absolute URL of the human-readable page.",
      "json": "Absolute URL of the full record for this jurisdiction.",
      "checked": "true when we have read this board's own pages and published the record. false means no data yet, not \"no requirements\".",
      "firstCredential": "The first credential an MSW graduate holds here (abbreviation, title, and the ASWB exam category needed to hold it: \"none\" when it is issued without one, null when an exam applies but no board rule names its level, or when the sources disagree on whether one applies).",
      "examRequiredFirst": "true when the ASWB exam gates that first credential. false when the jurisdiction licenses or registers you first and the exam comes later (Michigan, California, Florida, Illinois). null when there is no yes-or-no ASWB answer; examOrderReason says why.",
      "examOrderReason": "Why examRequiredFirst is null (null when it is true or false). \"applicant\": the rule turns on the applicant (Connecticut's degree-date cutoff, Minnesota's provisional route, Colorado's jurisprudence exam). \"provider_unconfirmed\": an exam comes first but the rule names only one approved by the board, not ASWB (Louisiana). \"unchecked\": we have not read the board, or the first rung (Nebraska PCMSW). \"sources_conflict\": the primary sources disagree on whether the exam applies, so neither reading is stated (no jurisdiction today). The per-state JSON `summary` states the rule.",
      "knownFeesUsd": "Sum of ONLY the fixed fees the board publishes for that first credential, in US dollars. null when it publishes none. A level-dependent ASWB exam fee (a fee line with amount_by_level) is never in it; it is charged in addition.",
      "hours": "Plain-language supervised-hour requirement on the path, or the not-checked sentence.",
      "lastChecked": "ISO date WE last read the board pages behind this record. It is not a board review, approval or sign-off.",
      "compactMember": "true when the jurisdiction has enacted the Social Work Licensure Compact. null when not checked.",
      "compactStatus": "Social Work Licensure Compact status: \"enacted\", \"pending_legislation\" or \"no_active_legislation\", with the page it was read from and the ISO date checked. null when not checked.",
      "compactLicenses": "Whether multistate compact licenses are being issued anywhere yet, with the compact's own statement quoted and the ISO date checked.",
      "ladder": "Every rung of the licensure ladder in order. `exam` is the ASWB category required to HOLD that rung (\"none\" = no ASWB exam; null = an exam applies but no board rule names its level); `supervised` means practice only under supervision. Optional: `examChoice` (\"board\" | \"applicant\") says who picks from a multi-level `exam`; `checked: false` marks a rung we have not read a record for (not checked yet, never another license's steps); `examProvider: \"unconfirmed\"` marks a rule that names only an exam approved by the board, so ASWB is not asserted.",
      "fees": "The board's own fee lines for the first credential, each with the page it was read from. amount_usd is null when the board does not publish the amount (counted in unknownFeeCount), or when conflict is true: the sources state different amounts, so neither is used (counted in conflictFeeCount, never in knownFeesUsd). A line with amount_by_level is an ASWB exam fee that depends on the level, kept out of knownFeesUsd.",
      "aswbExam": "The exam for the first credential: level (null when no rule names it) and fee. provider \"unconfirmed\" when the rule names only an exam approved by the board, not ASWB. null when the credential is issued without an exam or its rung is not checked yet.",
      "supervision": "The supervised-experience package on the path, each figure with its own source page. A figure the board does not publish is null, and so is one with conflict: true, where the sources state different figures and neither is used (the hours line says it is not confirmed).",
      "applicationSequence": "The board's published order of operations, in the board's own terms.",
      "sources": "The board and statute pages this record was read from.",
      "records": "The raw rulebook records for this jurisdiction, unmodified.",
      "dataProblems": "Every field we could not state plainly, one entry per field: `credential` is the record it belongs to, `path` the field inside that record, `kind` why (unchecked, unpublished, not_applicable, conflict, stale_source, no_single_total), `note` the specifics, `sources` what each source says, verbatim, `askTheBoard` the question to put to the board (or null), `checked` the ISO date we read them. Empty when there are none."
    }
  },
  "abbr": "WI",
  "name": "Wisconsin",
  "url": "https://www.socialworktestprepacademy.com/licensing/wi",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "checked": true,
  "lastChecked": "2026-09-29",
  "board": {
    "name": "Wisconsin Marriage and Family Therapy, Professional Counseling, and Social Work Examining Board (DSPS)",
    "url": "https://dsps.wi.gov/a-z-professions-list/social-worker-advanced-practice-apsw/"
  },
  "firstCredential": {
    "abbr": "APSW",
    "title": "Advanced Practice Social Worker (accrues LCSW hours under an approved supervisor)",
    "rung": "masters",
    "exam": "Masters"
  },
  "examRequiredFirst": true,
  "examOrderReason": null,
  "summary": "The ASWB Masters exam is required before the license.",
  "aswbExam": {
    "level": "Masters",
    "feeUsd": 230
  },
  "knownFeesUsd": 292,
  "unknownFeeCount": 0,
  "conflictFeeCount": 0,
  "fees": [
    {
      "name": "APSW initial credential fee",
      "amount_usd": 62,
      "source_url": "https://dsps.wi.gov/credentialing/credential-fees-and-renewal-dates/",
      "verified_date": "2026-09-29"
    },
    {
      "name": "ASWB Masters examination",
      "amount_usd": 230,
      "source_url": "https://www.aswb.org/exam/",
      "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
    }
  ],
  "supervision": {
    "experience_hours": {
      "value": 3000,
      "source_url": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/code/admin_code/mpsw/3/09",
      "verified_date": "2026-09-29"
    },
    "client_contact_hours": {
      "value": 1000,
      "source_url": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/code/admin_code/mpsw/3/09",
      "verified_date": "2026-09-29"
    },
    "supervision_hours": {
      "value": null,
      "source_url": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/code/admin_code/mpsw/4/01",
      "verified_date": "2026-09-27",
      "notes": "Wis. Admin. Code MPSW 4.01 sets a rate, not a total: at least 1 hour per week of face-to-face supervision."
    },
    "minimum_months": null,
    "maximum_months": null,
    "notes": [
      "Of the 1,000 face-to-face client-contact hours, 'At least 600 hours of the required 1,000 hours of face-to-face client contact must involve DSM diagnosis and treatment of individuals.' (Wis. Admin. Code MPSW 3.09(3)).",
      "Supervision must occur in face-to-face individual or group sessions of at least one hour during each week of supervised practice, with no more than 6 supervisees per group supervisor (Wis. Admin. Code MPSW 4.01); no total supervision-hour figure is stated in the rule, so supervision_hours is left null rather than inferred from the weekly cadence.",
      "Supervised experience counts only if completed while the applicant was certified as an Advanced Practice Social Worker or Independent Social Worker.",
      "In lieu of supervised clinical field training, an applicant may substitute an affidavit of 1,500 hours of supervised clinical experience in not less than one year, including 500 hours of face-to-face client contact, but this does not reduce the separate 3,000-hour post-degree requirement."
    ]
  },
  "hours": "3,000 hours, 1,000 client contact, supervision: no single total, for the LCSW",
  "compactMember": true,
  "compactNote": null,
  "compactStatus": {
    "status": "enacted",
    "sourceUrl": "https://swcompact.org/compact-jurisdictions/",
    "checkedOn": "2026-09-27"
  },
  "compactLicenses": {
    "issued": false,
    "statement": "The Social Work Licensure Compact has been enacted in at least seven states and has reached activation status, however multistate licenses are not yet being issued. The implementation process for the compact will take 12 to 24 months before multistate licenses are able to issued.",
    "sourceUrl": "https://swcompact.org/",
    "checkedOn": "2026-10-18"
  },
  "applicationSequence": [
    "Hold a master's or higher degree in social work from a CSWE-accredited program (Wis. Admin. Code MPSW 3.05).",
    "Complete the LicensE online application and pay the applicable fees.",
    "Pass the ASWB Masters examination (info1992.pdf: 'Advanced Practice Social Worker... requires a Master's or higher degree in social work and passage of the intermediate (ASWB Master's Examination) level national exam').",
    "Pass the Wisconsin Statutes and Rules (jurisprudence) examination unless taken within the last 5 years."
  ],
  "ladder": [
    {
      "rung": "bachelors",
      "abbr": "CSW",
      "title": "Social Worker (Basic-Level)",
      "exam": "Bachelors",
      "supervised": false,
      "source": "https://dsps.wi.gov/a-z-professions-list/social-worker-sw/"
    },
    {
      "rung": "masters",
      "abbr": "APSW",
      "title": "Advanced Practice Social Worker (accrues LCSW hours under an approved supervisor)",
      "exam": "Masters",
      "supervised": true,
      "source": "https://dsps.wi.gov/a-z-professions-list/social-worker-advanced-practice-apsw/"
    },
    {
      "rung": "advanced",
      "abbr": "ISW",
      "title": "Independent Social Worker",
      "exam": "Advanced Generalist",
      "supervised": false,
      "source": "https://dsps.wi.gov/a-z-professions-list/social-worker-independent-isw/"
    },
    {
      "rung": "clinical",
      "abbr": "LCSW",
      "title": "Licensed Clinical Social Worker",
      "exam": "Clinical",
      "supervised": false,
      "source": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/code/admin_code/mpsw/3/09"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Wisconsin Marriage and Family Therapy, Professional Counseling, and Social Work Examining Board (DSPS) · APSW applicant resources",
      "url": "https://dsps.wi.gov/a-z-professions-list/social-worker-advanced-practice-apsw/"
    },
    {
      "label": "Wis. Admin. Code MPSW 3.05 - Application for certification as an APSW",
      "url": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/code/admin_code/mpsw/3/05"
    },
    {
      "label": "DSPS Credential Fees and Renewal Dates",
      "url": "https://dsps.wi.gov/credentialing/credential-fees-and-renewal-dates/"
    },
    {
      "label": "APSW fees · ASWB Masters examination",
      "url": "https://www.aswb.org/exam/"
    },
    {
      "label": "Social Work Licensure Compact · member jurisdictions",
      "url": "https://swcompact.org/compact-jurisdictions/"
    },
    {
      "label": "Wisconsin Marriage and Family Therapy, Professional Counseling, and Social Work Examining Board (DSPS) · LCSW applicant resources",
      "url": "https://dsps.wi.gov/a-z-professions-list/social-worker-licensed-clinical-lcsw/"
    },
    {
      "label": "Wis. Admin. Code MPSW 3.09 - Application for licensure as a clinical social worker",
      "url": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/code/admin_code/mpsw/3/09"
    },
    {
      "label": "Wis. Admin. Code MPSW 3.11 - Temporary certificate or license",
      "url": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/code/admin_code/mpsw/3/11"
    },
    {
      "label": "Wis. Admin. Code MPSW 4.01 - Supervision",
      "url": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/code/admin_code/mpsw/4/01"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "state": {
        "name": "Wisconsin",
        "postal_code": "WI"
      },
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        "track": "masters",
        "title": "Advanced Practice Social Worker",
        "abbreviation": "APSW"
      },
      "board": {
        "name": "Wisconsin Marriage and Family Therapy, Professional Counseling, and Social Work Examining Board (DSPS)",
        "source_url": "https://dsps.wi.gov/a-z-professions-list/social-worker-advanced-practice-apsw/"
      },
      "fees": [
        {
          "name": "APSW initial credential fee",
          "amount_usd": 62,
          "source_url": "https://dsps.wi.gov/credentialing/credential-fees-and-renewal-dates/",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-29"
        },
        {
          "name": "APSW biennial renewal fee",
          "amount_usd": 62,
          "source_url": "https://dsps.wi.gov/credentialing/credential-fees-and-renewal-dates/",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-29"
        },
        {
          "name": "ASWB Masters examination",
          "amount_usd": 230,
          "source_url": "https://www.aswb.org/exam/",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
        }
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        "Hold a master's or higher degree in social work from a CSWE-accredited program (Wis. Admin. Code MPSW 3.05).",
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        "Pass the ASWB Masters examination (info1992.pdf: 'Advanced Practice Social Worker... requires a Master's or higher degree in social work and passage of the intermediate (ASWB Master's Examination) level national exam').",
        "Pass the Wisconsin Statutes and Rules (jurisprudence) examination unless taken within the last 5 years."
      ],
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        "level": "Masters",
        "fee_usd": 230,
        "source_url": "https://www.aswb.org/exam/",
        "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
      },
      "supervision_requirement": {
        "experience_hours": null,
        "client_contact_hours": null,
        "supervision_hours": null,
        "minimum_months": null,
        "maximum_months": null,
        "notes": [
          "APSW has no pre-licensure supervised-practice-hour requirement of its own; Wisconsin's hours requirements attach to the Independent Social Worker (ISW) and Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) tiers (Wis. Admin. Code MPSW 4.01)."
        ]
      },
      "supervisor_eligibility": null,
      "forms": [
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          "name": "LicensE online application portal",
          "source_url": "https://license.wi.gov/"
        }
      ],
      "processing_benchmark": null,
      "endorsement_rules": [
        "Reciprocal applicants: eligibility is based on a comparison of the applicant's home-state licensing standards to Wisconsin's, not on individual qualifications; the credential must remain active until the Wisconsin process is complete (info1992.pdf)."
      ],
      "compact_status": {
        "member": true,
        "multistate_licenses_available": null,
        "source_url": "https://swcompact.org/compact-jurisdictions/",
        "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
      },
      "last_verified": "2026-09-29",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Wis. Admin. Code MPSW 3.05 - Application for certification as an APSW",
          "url": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/code/admin_code/mpsw/3/05"
        },
        {
          "label": "DSPS, APSW credential page",
          "url": "https://dsps.wi.gov/a-z-professions-list/social-worker-advanced-practice-apsw/"
        },
        {
          "label": "DSPS Credential Fees and Renewal Dates",
          "url": "https://dsps.wi.gov/credentialing/credential-fees-and-renewal-dates/"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "state": {
        "name": "Wisconsin",
        "postal_code": "WI"
      },
      "license_target": {
        "track": "clinical",
        "title": "Licensed Clinical Social Worker",
        "abbreviation": "LCSW"
      },
      "board": {
        "name": "Wisconsin Marriage and Family Therapy, Professional Counseling, and Social Work Examining Board (DSPS)",
        "source_url": "https://dsps.wi.gov/a-z-professions-list/social-worker-licensed-clinical-lcsw/"
      },
      "fees": [
        {
          "name": "LCSW initial credential fee",
          "amount_usd": 62,
          "source_url": "https://dsps.wi.gov/credentialing/credential-fees-and-renewal-dates/",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-29"
        },
        {
          "name": "LCSW biennial renewal fee",
          "amount_usd": 62,
          "source_url": "https://dsps.wi.gov/credentialing/credential-fees-and-renewal-dates/",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-29"
        },
        {
          "name": "ASWB Clinical examination",
          "amount_usd": 260,
          "source_url": "https://www.aswb.org/exam/",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
        }
      ],
      "application_sequence": [
        "Hold a master's or doctoral degree in social work with a concentration in clinical social work from a CSWE-accredited program, including supervised clinical field training (Wis. Admin. Code MPSW 3.09).",
        "While certified as an Advanced Practice Social Worker or Independent Social Worker, complete at least 3,000 hours of supervised clinical social work experience, including at least 1,000 hours of face-to-face client contact, at least 600 of which involve DSM diagnosis and treatment of individuals, under a Board-approved supervisor (Wis. Admin. Code MPSW 3.09(3)).",
        "Pass the ASWB Clinical examination.",
        "Pass the Wisconsin Statutes and Rules examination unless taken within the last 5 years.",
        "Submit the LicensE online application, transcripts, and documentation of post-graduate clinical experience (Form #2560)."
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      "aswb_exam": {
        "level": "Clinical",
        "fee_usd": 260,
        "source_url": "https://www.aswb.org/exam/",
        "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
      },
      "supervision_requirement": {
        "experience_hours": {
          "value": 3000,
          "source_url": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/code/admin_code/mpsw/3/09",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-29"
        },
        "client_contact_hours": {
          "value": 1000,
          "source_url": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/code/admin_code/mpsw/3/09",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-29"
        },
        "supervision_hours": {
          "value": null,
          "source_url": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/code/admin_code/mpsw/4/01",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-27",
          "notes": "Wis. Admin. Code MPSW 4.01 sets a rate, not a total: at least 1 hour per week of face-to-face supervision."
        },
        "minimum_months": null,
        "maximum_months": null,
        "notes": [
          "Of the 1,000 face-to-face client-contact hours, 'At least 600 hours of the required 1,000 hours of face-to-face client contact must involve DSM diagnosis and treatment of individuals.' (Wis. Admin. Code MPSW 3.09(3)).",
          "Supervision must occur in face-to-face individual or group sessions of at least one hour during each week of supervised practice, with no more than 6 supervisees per group supervisor (Wis. Admin. Code MPSW 4.01); no total supervision-hour figure is stated in the rule, so supervision_hours is left null rather than inferred from the weekly cadence.",
          "Supervised experience counts only if completed while the applicant was certified as an Advanced Practice Social Worker or Independent Social Worker.",
          "In lieu of supervised clinical field training, an applicant may substitute an affidavit of 1,500 hours of supervised clinical experience in not less than one year, including 500 hours of face-to-face client contact, but this does not reduce the separate 3,000-hour post-degree requirement."
        ]
      },
      "supervisor_eligibility": [
        "A Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a doctorate degree in social work.",
        "A Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a master's degree in social work.",
        "A Licensed Clinical Social Worker with five years of full-time clinical social work experience.",
        "A psychiatrist or psychologist.",
        "Another individual approved in advance by the Social Worker Section."
      ],
      "forms": [
        {
          "name": "LicensE online application portal",
          "source_url": "https://license.wi.gov/"
        }
      ],
      "processing_benchmark": null,
      "endorsement_rules": [
        "Reciprocal applicants: eligibility is based on a comparison of the applicant's home-state licensing standards to Wisconsin's, not on individual qualifications; the credential must remain active until the Wisconsin process is complete.",
        "A temporary license (valid 9 months, renewable once) permits practice and use of the 'Clinical Social Worker' title pending only the required examinations (Wis. Admin. Code MPSW 3.11(4) and (5))."
      ],
      "compact_status": {
        "member": true,
        "multistate_licenses_available": null,
        "source_url": "https://swcompact.org/compact-jurisdictions/",
        "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
      },
      "last_verified": "2026-09-29",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Wis. Admin. Code MPSW 3.09 - Application for licensure as a clinical social worker",
          "url": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/code/admin_code/mpsw/3/09"
        },
        {
          "label": "Wis. Admin. Code MPSW 3.11 - Temporary certificate or license",
          "url": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/code/admin_code/mpsw/3/11"
        },
        {
          "label": "Wis. Admin. Code MPSW 4.01 - Supervision",
          "url": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/code/admin_code/mpsw/4/01"
        },
        {
          "label": "DSPS, LCSW credential page",
          "url": "https://dsps.wi.gov/a-z-professions-list/social-worker-licensed-clinical-lcsw/"
        },
        {
          "label": "DSPS Credential Fees and Renewal Dates",
          "url": "https://dsps.wi.gov/credentialing/credential-fees-and-renewal-dates/"
        }
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          "kind": "no_single_total",
          "note": "The rule sets a weekly rate (1 hour of face-to-face supervision a week), not a total.",
          "sources": [
            {
              "label": "Wis. Admin. Code MPSW 4.01",
              "url": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/code/admin_code/mpsw/4/01",
              "says": "face-to-face individual or groups sessions of at least one hour duration during each week of supervised practice of social work"
            }
          ],
          "checked": "2026-09-29",
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        }
      }
    }
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    {
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      "path": "supervision_requirement.supervision_hours",
      "kind": "no_single_total",
      "note": "The rule sets a weekly rate (1 hour of face-to-face supervision a week), not a total.",
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        {
          "label": "Wis. Admin. Code MPSW 4.01",
          "url": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/code/admin_code/mpsw/4/01",
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