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Electrical contractors in Anchorage, AK

The Anchorage, AK metro area has 95 electrical contractors, or 2.37 per 10,000 residents.

What electrical work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national electrical page. Alaska publishes no business-level licence source for electrical, so this page shows no licensed share; the Alaska page says what it does publish.

The facts

Electrical contractors in this metro
95
Per 10,000 residents
2.37 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
1
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There is no license source for this trade in Alaska. No electrical record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a missing file.
Employment and pay for this trade
930 employed, $82,440 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Electricians. Median hourly wage $39.63.
Independent, franchise, corporate
95 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
1.04% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 401,314, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 OEWS, published May 15, 2026, SOC 47-2111.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about electrical in Anchorage

By record count, electrical is the fifth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Anchorage, behind HVAC and ahead of cleaning. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Anchorage.

Per resident, Anchorage carries more electrical records than Alaska as a whole.

The independent share of Anchorage's electrical records is close to the Alaska figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Alaska publishes no business-level licence source for electrical that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Anchorage is shown as not published rather than as zero, and no electrical record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a file that does not exist.

No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for electrical in Anchorage, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.

The occupational series the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes for this trade counts 930 workers across Anchorage, and this site publishes 95 electrical records here. The two count different things, one an occupation across every employer and the other the businesses on this site, so they stand side by side rather than one against the other.

No Anchorage electrical record is classified as a franchise brand or a corporate-owned location, so the chain split here is independent records and records still in review.

No Anchorage electrical record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.

More electrical records first appeared in Anchorage over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this trade and metro grew. A record appears when the source learns of a business, which is a different event from a business opening.

No city inside Anchorage differs from the metro enough on electrical to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.

Anchorage is the only Alaska metro area this site publishes a electrical page for, so there is no second Alaska hub of this trade to rank it against.

Ordered by electrical records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a electrical page for, the hubs either side of Anchorage are Asheville above it and Reading below it.

Electrical contractors, A to Z

94 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.

Other trades in Anchorage

Pest control and Pool have fewer than 8 publishable records in Anchorage, so they are answered on the overview above instead.