US electrical-contractor market, mapped
Largest Electrical Contractors in the US: 70,000 Establishments, Top 10 Hold Under 1%
By US location count, the 10 largest electrical contractors run a fraction of the market. Quanta Services and MYR Group dominate by revenue and labor force, but roughly 600 sub-brand operating offices hide under public parents that never carry the parent name on the truck.
The market, in three numbers
A long tail the ENR rankings keep hiding.
active US establishments
Census NAICS 238210 counts establishments, not parents. A contractor running three branch offices shows up three times, which is the unit a vendor actually sells into.
share held by the top ten brands
The 10 largest electrical contractors by visible US storefront count combine for roughly 500 locations. Mr. Electric alone holds 190 of those, all as franchisee LLCs.
hidden sub-brand operating offices
Quanta Services, MYR Group, IES Holdings, and Rosendin operate sub-brands that file under their own legal entities. The parent revenue rolls up; the brand identity never does.
Source: Census County Business Patterns NAICS 238210 (2024), NECA 2024 membership, IBISWorld Electricians industry report, plus Orbital's establishment-level location graph.
Methodology
Why our count moves and the published estimates do not.
The headline numbers you usually see in electrical contracting, the ENR Top 600 revenue ranking, the NECA membership directory, and the IBISWorld Electricians report, are excellent for what they cover. They are also annual at best, and the buyer behind every shop moves faster than that. We work location by location and refresh against the universe of US small businesses every month.
How the 70,000 figure is built
- Anchor on the Census establishment count. County Business Patterns NAICS 238210, Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors, reports roughly 70,000 active establishments for 2024. This is the most defensible universe-of-the-vertical number and the one published estimates from IBISWorld and NECA cluster around.
- Classify each location into the right market. Electrical contractor is not one market. The dataset splits residential service, commercial new construction, commercial service, industrial, utility T and D, low-voltage and data, and solar EPC. A vendor selling field service software cares about a different cut than a vendor selling switchgear.
- Resolve sub-brands back to the public parent where possible. Quanta Services owns roughly 200 subsidiary operating companies. PAR Electrical Contractors is the one 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 documented in 10-K filings.
- 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 polished 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 keep them on for twelve months. We do not.
- Refresh on a rolling schedule. The June 2026 snapshot is the one quoted on this page. Census County Business Patterns publishes annually and lags by 18 to 24 months. ENR Top 600 publishes annually. IBISWorld refreshes on a 12 to 18 month cycle. Counts on this page move when shops open, close, or change hands.
Want the source breakdown for a specific state, metro, or sub-segment (residential service, commercial, industrial, utility, low-voltage, solar EPC)? Ask. We do not hide the working.
By state
Where the electrical-contractor shops actually are.
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 classifier, June 2026 snapshot.
The top ten brands
Largest US electrical contractors by visible location count.
Press coverage ranks by revenue. Procurement seats live at the office. Ten brands, roughly 500 visible locations, under 1 percent of the 70,000 US establishment universe. Ten brands, roughly 500 visible locations, well under 1 percent of the US establishment universe. The remaining 69,500 are independents, regional shops, and sub-brand operating companies that never report up to a parent procurement office.
| # | Brand | US locations | Parent / note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quanta Services | ~25 | NYSE:PWR. 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.
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| 2 | Mr. Electric | 190 | Neighborly franchise brand. 190 franchisee-LLC locations across the US. Floor estimate due to franchisee-LLC rollup limitations; the franchisee, not Neighborly, is the buyer. |
| 3 | Mister Sparky Electric | 100 | Authority Brands franchise. 100 franchisee-LLC residential-service locations. Same franchisee-buyer pattern as Mr. Electric. |
| 4 | IES Holdings | 50 | NASDAQ:IESC. IES Residential alone runs 50 visible US offices; the holding company also owns IES Communications, IES Commercial & Industrial, and IES Infrastructure as separate operating segments. |
| 5 | MYR Group | ~25 | NASDAQ:MYRG. 9 subsidiary operating segments. The 25 figure is rolled-up operating offices.
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| 6 | Rosendin Electric | ~25 | Employee-owned (ESOP), one of the largest in the country by revenue. Roughly 25 major US operating offices anchored in San Jose, with strong concentration across data-center and utility-scale solar work. |
| 7 | Facility Solutions Group | 21 | FSG. Texas-headquartered. Commercial electrical service plus national lighting retrofit work; one of the larger privately held operators. |
| 8 | Strada Services | 21 | Florida-headquartered. Residential and commercial electrical, plus solar EPC. Acquired by Wind Point Partners in 2021. |
| 9 | High Voltage Electrical | 20 | Privately held. Industrial and utility-tier work, multi-state regional footprint. |
| 10 | ArchKey Solutions | 16 | Formed in 2019 from the merger of Sachs Electric and Walker-J-Walker. Commercial and industrial electrical plus technology services; multi-state footprint. |
| * | Public-majors combined | ~600 | Quanta, MYR, IES Holdings, Rosendin, and Cupertino Electric collectively run roughly 600 to 800 sub-brand operating offices when you include every subsidiary disclosed in 10-K filings. Most never carry the parent name on the truck. |
| * | Mr. Electric (franchise) | 190 | Neighborly franchise brand. Each location is a separate franchisee LLC. If you sell into franchisees, this is your list. If you sell to the franchisor, ask for the brand-rolled view. |
As of 2026, US open locations.
Our take
Commercial electrical is one of the most under-rolled verticals on the list.
We believe
Public commercial-electrical companies have rolled up 600 to 800 sub-brand offices. The brand identities never roll up to the parent.
Commercial-electrical is one of the most under-rolled verticals on this list. Quanta Services (NYSE:PWR) operates roughly 200 sub-brand operating companies that collectively employ 16,000 electricians, but our chain-resolver shows only one of them in the office-network view (PAR Electrical, roughly 21 locations). MYR Group has the same problem: 9 subsidiaries, only Sturgeon Electric visible. The actual market story is that public commercial-electrical companies have rolled up roughly 600 to 800 sub-brand operating offices across the top 5 names (Quanta, MYR, Rosendin, Cupertino Electric, IES Holdings), but the brand identities never roll up 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. That is the cut we built for.
Who buys this data
B2B vendors selling into 70,000 electrical-contractor shops.
This page is for the seven vendor categories selling into 70,000 electrical-contractor shops, not the contractors themselves. The sub-brand rollup is the part most generalist databases miss.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Marketing, SEO, and lead-gen
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.
Training, licensing, and safety
NECA training programs, IBEW JATCs, NFPA 70E safety courses, state journeyman and master licensing CE, plus the OSHA-10 and OSHA-30 providers. The owner or training manager is the budget holder.
Fleet, payments, and back-office
Fleet telematics for service vans, fuel cards, payments for residential subscription billing, and 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.
Adjacent universes built the same way: the market insights index, the broader by-industry email lists, the leaf electrician owner email list, the sister largest HVAC companies map, and the largest pest-control companies page for the trades family.
Plain-spoken
When the electrical-contractor dataset is the wrong fit.
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 70,000 records. 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 set, 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 6 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, which is the right cadence for prospecting and the wrong cadence for compliance gatekeeping.
The honest version
Why most electrical-contractor vendor data is wrong.
If you Google "largest electrical contractors in the US," the top result is almost always the latest ENR Top 600 list. ENR is the canonical industry ranking and it is excellent for what it does, which is rank specialty contractors by self-reported annual revenue. That is the right lens for tracking M&A, deal flow, and revenue concentration. It is not the right lens for figuring out which 500 procurement seats your AE team should call this quarter.
The revenue lens flatters the public majors. Quanta reports billions, MYR reports billions, and the field looks consolidated. The location lens does not flatter anyone. By US establishment count, the 10 largest brands run roughly 500 visible locations against a Census universe of 70,000. 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 the 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 general manager at the subsidiary, or an independent owner who never reports up to corporate procurement. ENR 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 10-K disclosures support it, and find the owner or decision-maker for the long tail. That works for electrical contractors the same way it works for HVAC, pest control, and convenience retail. What is specific to electrical is the layer on top: sub-segment (residential service, commercial new construction, commercial service, industrial, utility T and D, low-voltage and data, solar EPC), license tier, and the per-state journeyman or master number when the operator publishes it. We are the establishment-count complement to ENR, not a replacement for it. Both views belong in your stack. ENR Top 600 is the revenue lens; this is the location lens. The Census County Business Patterns series is the universe-of-the-vertical anchor, refreshed annually with an 18 to 24 month lag.
Questions
Before you ask sales about electrical-contractor data.
How many electrical contractors are there in the US?
There are roughly 70,000 active US electrical-contractor establishments as of 2024, based on Census County Business Patterns NAICS 238210 (Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors), NECA membership data, and IBISWorld's Electricians industry report. The figure counts establishments, not parent companies, so a single contractor running three branch offices shows up three times. The long tail of single-shop independents holds the majority of the count.
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 ENR or NECA?
ENR (Engineering News-Record) ranks electrical contractors by self-reported annual revenue. NECA represents roughly 4,000 member contractors. Both are excellent for what they cover. 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. The picture is different on purpose. ENR 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 to roughly 500 US locations against a universe of 70,000 establishments, 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. Census County Business Patterns publishes annually and lags by 18 to 24 months at any given point. ENR Top 600 publishes annually. NECA membership rolls update on a member-renewal cadence. Counts on this page 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 70,000 records. 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 dollars in annual contract value, the long tail of single-shop independents will not fit your unit economics. Call us when an enterprise-only motion stalls.
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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