US electrical-contractor market, mapped
70,000 US electrical-contractor shops, and the top ten brands hold under 1%.
Updated June 8, 2026
By storefront count, no single brand controls more than 0.3% of the US electrical-contractor market. Quanta and MYR dominate by revenue and labor force, but the procurement seats are spread across thousands of separate shop addresses. This is the vendor map.
Active US electrical-contractor establishments
iShare of US storefronts held by the top ten brands combined
iSub-brand operating offices hidden under public-company parents
iThe top ten brands
The ten largest US electrical contractors by visible storefront count.
Ranked by visible US establishment count, not revenue. The revenue ranking flatters Quanta and MYR; the storefront view shows a market where no single brand is decisive. One corporation can employ 16,000 electricians while appearing as roughly 25 operating offices in the location graph, because the remaining subsidiaries file under their own brand names and never carry the parent on the truck. The full parent-and-brand breakdown sits in Brand-by-brand below.
Who buys this data
B2B vendors selling into the US electrical-contractor market.
This page is for teams selling into electrical-contractor shops, not the contractors themselves. The buyer for this dataset usually falls into one of these categories.
Software
Field service management platforms
ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, FieldEdge, Jobber, Procore, and the route-and-dispatch tools selling the upgrade off a paper schedule. Residential service operators and commercial-service branches both buy here.
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Electrical distribution and switchgear
Graybar, Rexel, Sonepar, City Electric Supply, Crescent Electric, plus the switchgear OEMs (Eaton, Schneider, ABB) selling into the bid-and-spec layer at commercial and industrial shops.
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Estimating, takeoff, and BIM software
Accubid, McCormick Systems, ConEst, Trimble Stabicad, and the takeoff tools that own the estimator's seat. The buyer is the chief estimator or VP of preconstruction, not the field manager.
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Financing, lending, and M&A advisors
Equipment lenders, surety brokers, working-capital providers, and the PE and search-fund operators tracking the next mid-market roll-up. The owner contact at the independent shop is the asset.
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Marketing, SEO, and lead-gen agencies
Scorpion, Blue Corona, Townsquare Interactive, and the agency layer selling websites, Google Local Service Ads management, and reputation services to residential operators who built their book on referrals.
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Training, licensing, and safety
Apprenticeship and journeyman training programs, NFPA 70E safety courses, state licensing CE, plus OSHA-10 and OSHA-30 providers. The owner or training manager is the budget holder.
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Fleet, payments, and back-office
Fleet telematics for service vans, fuel cards, payments for residential subscription billing, and the back-office stack a 20-truck shop runs without a CFO. The owner approves the line item personally.
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The long version
Detail, on demand.
Most published figures for the US electrical-contractor market come from annual revenue rankings and industry-association directories. Both are useful for tracking M&A and revenue concentration. Neither tracks where the shops are or who runs them. We work location by location against the universe of US small and mid-market businesses and refresh on a rolling monthly schedule.
How the establishment count is built
- Anchor on the establishment, not the parent. Orbital’s location graph identifies active US electrical-contractor establishments by address, not by consolidated entity. A contractor running three branches appears three times, because that is how a vendor scopes territory and prices a list.
- Classify each location into the right sub-market. Electrical contracting is not one market. Residential service, commercial new construction, commercial service, industrial, utility T&D, low-voltage and data, and solar EPC all have different buyers and different software stacks. The dataset splits them.
- Resolve sub-brands to the public parent where possible. Quanta Services owns roughly 200 subsidiary operating companies. PAR Electrical Contractors is the most directly visible at the office-network level. InfraSource, Dashiell, and dozens of others file under their own brands. We attribute back to Quanta where the relationship is publicly documented.
- Find the owner for the independents. The long tail of single-shop independents is where most of the buying happens. Most of those owners do not have a LinkedIn presence. We find them by name, with a verified email and a direct dial, the same way we find owners across every long-tail vertical.
- Drop the dead pins. Closures, license lapses, shops rebranded after a sale. Annual reports carry them for twelve months. We do not.
- Refresh on a rolling schedule. The June 2026 snapshot is the one quoted on this page. Counts move when shops open, close, or change hands.
Want the source breakdown for a specific state, metro, or sub-segment? Ask. We do not hide the working. For owner contacts at the independent shop level, see the electrician owner email list.
Ranked by visible US location count, not revenue. The interesting line is the parent company column: one public company can employ 16,000 electricians while appearing as roughly 25 operating offices in the location graph, because the other subsidiaries file under their own brand names and never reach the parent in a standard B2B database.
| # | Brand | Parent / owner | US locations | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quanta Services | NYSE:PWR. PAR Electrical Contractors, InfraSource, Dashiell Corporation, and roughly 200 additional subsidiary brands. | ~25 | Roughly 16,000 craft employees across ~200 subsidiary operating companies. The ~25 figure is major operating offices visible at parent level; sub-brand offices push the count substantially higher. The dominant US electrical contractor by revenue and labor force. By revenue, far above the rest of this list. |
| 2 | Mr. Electric | Neighborly franchise brand. | 190 | 190 franchisee-LLC locations across the US. Floor estimate due to franchisee-LLC rollup limitations. The franchisee, not Neighborly, is the buyer for any B2B vendor selling into the location. |
| 3 | Mister Sparky Electric | Authority Brands franchise. | 100 | 100 franchisee-LLC residential-service locations. Same franchisee-buyer pattern as Mr. Electric. Authority Brands is the franchisor; each franchise owner is a separate legal entity and separate procurement decision. |
| 4 | IES Holdings | NASDAQ:IESC. IES Residential, IES Communications, IES Commercial & Industrial, IES Infrastructure. | 50 | IES Residential alone runs 50 visible US offices. The holding company operates four separate segments, each with its own procurement motion. Public company with audited disclosure for each segment. |
| 5 | MYR Group | NASDAQ:MYRG. Sturgeon Electric, CSI Electrical Contractors, Western Pacific Engineering, L.E. Myers, Harlan Electric, and 4 additional subsidiaries. | ~25 | 9 subsidiary operating segments. The ~25 figure is rolled-up operating offices. Like Quanta, most MYR subsidiary offices are not attributed to the parent in standard B2B databases and require chain-resolver logic to surface. |
| 6 | Rosendin Electric | Employee-owned (ESOP). | ~25 | One of the largest privately held electrical contractors in the US by revenue. ~25 major US operating offices anchored in San Jose. Strong concentration in data-center and utility-scale solar work. No public filings; count from public project disclosures and office addresses. |
| 7 | Facility Solutions Group | Privately held (FSG). | 21 | Texas-headquartered. Commercial electrical service plus national lighting retrofit work. One of the larger privately held operators in the commercial-service segment. |
| 8 | Strada Services | Wind Point Partners (private equity). | 21 | Florida-headquartered. Residential and commercial electrical plus solar EPC. Acquired by Wind Point Partners in 2021. |
| 9 | High Voltage Electrical | Privately held. | 20 | Industrial and utility-tier work, multi-state regional footprint. |
| 10 | ArchKey Solutions | Formed 2019 from Sachs Electric and Walker-J-Walker merger. | 16 | Commercial and industrial electrical plus technology services. Multi-state footprint anchored in the Midwest. |
Counts marked “~” are approximate, drawn from public-company filings and Orbital’s location graph reconciliation. Source: Orbital data team, June 2026 snapshot.
California, Texas, and Florida together hold roughly 27 percent of US electrical-contractor locations. Housing starts, commercial construction backlog, and utility infrastructure spend do most of the work. New York, Pennsylvania, and Illinois round out the top six.
| # | State | Locations | Share of US |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | 7,496 | 12.25% |
| 2 | Texas | 4,864 | 7.95% |
| 3 | Florida | 3,873 | 6.33% |
| 4 | New York | 2,893 | 4.73% |
| 5 | Pennsylvania | 2,472 | 4.04% |
| 6 | Illinois | 2,445 | 3.99% |
| 7 | North Carolina | 2,014 | 3.29% |
| 8 | New Jersey | 1,979 | 3.23% |
| 9 | Ohio | 1,774 | 2.90% |
| 10 | Massachusetts | 1,761 | 2.88% |
| 11 | Michigan | 1,734 | 2.83% |
| 12 | Georgia | 1,697 | 2.77% |
| 13 | Virginia | 1,282 | 2.09% |
| 14 | Washington | 1,245 | 2.03% |
| 15 | Minnesota | 1,229 | 2.01% |
Top 15 states account for roughly 67 percent of mapped US electrical-contractor locations. Source: Orbital data team, June 2026 snapshot.
We believe
If you segment electrical contractors by revenue ranking, you are calling the wrong list.
Quanta Services (NYSE:PWR) operates roughly 200 sub-brand operating companies that collectively employ 16,000 electricians, but our chain-resolver surfaces only one of them clearly at the office-network level: PAR Electrical, roughly 21 locations. MYR Group has the same problem. Nine subsidiaries, with Sturgeon Electric the only one visible in most generalist databases. Across the top five names by revenue, somewhere between 600 and 800 operating offices are sitting under brand identities that never surface to the parent.
If you sell into electrical contractors, you are probably segmenting on the wrong axis. The parent-by-revenue view flatters Quanta and MYR. The brand-on-the-truck view flatters Mr. Electric. Neither tells you which 500 procurement seats actually write checks for switchgear, software, or training this quarter. A revenue ranking is excellent for tracking M&A. It is not a call list. The establishment-count view is the call list.
Do not buy this if any of the following are true.
You only sell at the Quanta and MYR enterprise tier. If your motion is one annual contract with the public majors, you do not need the full establishment base. You need a focused account list of 5 to 10 logos and the procurement seat at each subsidiary. Save your budget.
You sell to homeowners directly. Consumer electrical-repair leads, smart-home end users, and home-improvement direct-to-consumer brands want a different dataset, the residential household database, not B2B owner contacts.
Your sales motion only fires above $250k ACV. The long tail of single-shop independents will not fit your unit economics. A residential service operator with six trucks rarely writes a six-figure annual check on day one. Call us when an enterprise-only motion stalls and you need a mid-market overlay.
You need real-time license status. State journeyman and master license boards publish that, with appeal periods and reinstatement windows that move daily. We refresh monthly, the right cadence for prospecting and the wrong cadence for compliance gatekeeping.
If you Google “largest electrical contractors in the US,” the top result is almost always a revenue ranking. Revenue rankings are excellent for what they do: rank specialty contractors by self-reported annual revenue. That is the right lens for tracking M&A and deal flow. It is not the right lens for figuring out which procurement seats to call this quarter.
The revenue lens flatters the public majors. Quanta reports billions, MYR reports billions, and the field looks consolidated. The location lens shows something different. By US establishment count, the 10 largest brands run fewer than 500 visible locations. That is under 1 percent of the market by location count. The other 99 percent is somebody else’s truck.
The second problem is that enterprise B2B databases roll up by parent and lose the buyer. They show “Quanta Services” as one customer at the Houston HQ, and roughly 200 subsidiary operating companies collapse into a single row. The actual buyer for most electrical-contractor vendor categories is a branch manager, a regional GM at the subsidiary, or an independent owner who never reports up to corporate procurement. A revenue ranking sees the revenue but not the procurement seat. Generalist databases see the parent but not the branch. The establishment-level view sees both.
This is the gap Orbital sits in. We map the universe of US small and mid-market businesses, classify each location into its market, attribute sub-brands back to the public parent where public disclosures support it, and find the owner or decision-maker for the long tail. What is specific to electrical is the layer on top: sub-segment, license tier, and the per-state journeyman or master number when the operator publishes it. We are the establishment-count complement to the revenue rankings, not a replacement for them.
Questions
Before you ask sales about electrical-contractor data.
How many electrical contractors are there in the US?
The Orbital June 2026 location graph maps the active US electrical-contractor establishment base across all 50 states at establishment grain, not parent-company grain. A contractor running three branch offices appears three times, which is how vendors scope territory and price coverage. The long tail of single-shop independents makes up the vast majority of that count, and most of those owners do not appear in standard B2B databases.
Who is the largest electrical contractor in the US?
By revenue and labor force, Quanta Services (NYSE:PWR) is the largest, with roughly 16,000 craft employees and a portfolio that includes PAR Electrical Contractors, InfraSource, Dashiell, and dozens of other subsidiary operating companies. By storefront count visible to a B2B vendor, Mr. Electric (Neighborly franchise) leads with 190 franchisee-LLC locations. The two answers are both correct because they measure different things. Quanta sells to utilities and large industrials; Mr. Electric sells to homeowners through 190 different franchise owners.
How is Orbital's count different from other industry rankings?
Most industry rankings sort electrical contractors by self-reported annual revenue. This list ranks the same market by US location count, including the sub-brand operating offices that get hidden when a public parent reports one consolidated entity. A revenue ranking sees Quanta as one company; the storefront view shows roughly 25 major Quanta operating offices and 200 sub-brand operating companies.
Why does the top 10 look smaller than press coverage suggests?
Because press coverage measures revenue and this view measures locations. The top 10 by storefront count combine for fewer than 500 US locations, well under 1 percent of the market by location count. Independents with one shop run the majority of every electrical-contractor storefront in the country. Commercial electrical is consolidating by revenue and by labor share; it is not consolidating at the storefront level the way fast food or auto repair has.
Can I filter by state, metro, or sub-segment?
Yes. The dataset is filterable by state, metro, ZIP, chain affiliation, parent company, and sub-segment: residential service, commercial new construction, commercial service, industrial, utility T&D, low-voltage and data, solar EPC. California, Texas, and Florida together hold roughly 27 percent of US electrical-contractor locations, so most vendors start with those three plus their named target metros. Tell us the cut you want when you request the sample.
How is this list refreshed?
Orbital refreshes the location graph against the universe of US small and mid-market businesses on a rolling monthly schedule. The June 2026 snapshot is the one quoted on this page. Counts move when shops open, close, or change hands.
When is this dataset the wrong fit?
Three cases. First, if you only sell at the Quanta and MYR enterprise tier, you do not need the full establishment base. You need a focused account list of 5 to 10 public companies and their subsidiary procurement contacts. Second, if you sell to homeowners directly, you want consumer data, not B2B owner contacts. Third, if your sales motion only fires above $250,000 in annual contract value, the long tail of single-shop independents will not fit your unit economics.
What is the chain resolver under-rollup caveat?
Public commercial-electrical parents like Quanta, MYR, and IES Holdings operate dozens of sub-brands that file under their own legal entities and never carry the parent name on the truck or the office sign. Our location graph can attribute most PAR Electrical Contractors offices back to Quanta, but the long tail of Quanta acquisitions (InfraSource, Dashiell, Cupertino Electric joint ventures) often shows under the original brand. If your buyer is the procurement seat at the subsidiary, this works correctly. If your buyer is the corporate VP of supply chain at the parent, ask us for the brand-rolled view.
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Tell us the states, sub-segments, or parent rollups you want. We send a free sample of around 100 verified owner records you can check against your own pipeline, no commitment, no email-list back-and-forth. For the long tail of individual owner contacts, see the electrician owner email list.
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