S.C. Code Ann. § 40-11-30
Licensing requirement.
No entity or individual may practice as a contractor by performing or offering to perform contracting work for which the total cost of construction is greater than ten thousand dollars for general contracting or greater than ten thousand dollars for mechanical contracting without a license issued in accordance with this chapter. Effect of Amendment 2023 Act No. 69, SECTION 3, substituted "ten thousand dollars" for "five thousand dollars" in two places.