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Electrical contractors in Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI

The Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro area has 251 electrical contractors, or 1.61 per 10,000 residents.

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

The facts

Electrical contractors in this metro
251
Per 10,000 residents
1.61 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
3
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
1
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There is no license source for this trade in Wisconsin. 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
4,490 employed, $77,800 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Electricians. Median hourly wage $37.41.
Independent, franchise, corporate
250 independent, 0 franchise brand, 1 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.40% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.40% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 1,560,424, 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 Milwaukee-Waukesha

By record count, electrical is the eighth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Milwaukee-Waukesha, behind plumbing and ahead of painting. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Milwaukee-Waukesha.

Per resident, Milwaukee-Waukesha carries fewer electrical records than Wisconsin as a whole.

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

Far more of Milwaukee-Waukesha's electrical records carry no street address than across Wisconsin. What a blank street line is and is not is set out on the methodology page.

Wisconsin publishes no business-level licence source for electrical that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Milwaukee-Waukesha 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 Milwaukee-Waukesha, 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 4,490 workers across Milwaukee-Waukesha, and this site publishes 251 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 Milwaukee-Waukesha electrical records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

No Milwaukee-Waukesha 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 Milwaukee-Waukesha 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 Milwaukee-Waukesha 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 4 Wisconsin metro areas this site publishes a electrical page for, Milwaukee-Waukesha carries the fewest records per resident. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a electrical page for rather than every metro area in Wisconsin.

Ordered by electrical records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a electrical page for, the hubs either side of Milwaukee-Waukesha are Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom above it and Trenton-Princeton below it.

Electrical contractors, A to Z

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

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