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Electrical contractors in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ

The New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area has 3,395 electrical contractors, or 1.74 per 10,000 residents.

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

The facts

Electrical contractors in this metro
3,395
Per 10,000 residents
1.74 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
32
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
15
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There is no license source for this trade in New York. 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
36,550 employed, $79,020 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Electricians. Median hourly wage $37.99.
Independent, franchise, corporate
3,386 independent, 0 franchise brand, 1 corporate owned, 8 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.35% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.29% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 19,498,249, 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 New York-Newark-Jersey City

By record count, electrical is the fourth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in New York-Newark-Jersey City, behind HVAC and ahead of plumbing. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in New York-Newark-Jersey City.

Per resident, New York-Newark-Jersey City sits close to the New York rate for electrical, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of New York-Newark-Jersey City's electrical records is close to the New York figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Far more of New York-Newark-Jersey City's electrical records carry no street address than across New York. What a blank street line is and is not is set out on the methodology page.

New York publishes no business-level licence source for electrical that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for New York-Newark-Jersey City 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 New York-Newark-Jersey City, 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 36,550 workers across New York-Newark-Jersey City, and this site publishes 3,395 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.

Of the New York-Newark-Jersey City electrical records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

Almost none of New York-Newark-Jersey City's electrical records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above describe nearly the whole list.

More electrical records first appeared in New York-Newark-Jersey City 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 New York-Newark-Jersey City differs from the metro enough on electrical to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.

Among the 8 New York metro areas this site publishes a electrical page for, New York-Newark-Jersey City is 4th of 8 by records per resident, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a electrical page for rather than every metro area in New York.

Ordered by electrical records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a electrical page for, the hubs either side of New York-Newark-Jersey City are York-Hanover above it and Richmond below it.

Electrical contractors, A to Z

3,346 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship. This page shows the first 300 alphabetically; the rest are on the 11 further pages linked below, not withheld.

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