Double-Digit Employment Increases Will Fire Up Business In Hottest Metros

摘要

While the overall U.S. electrical wholesaling is expected to grow at a decent but still somewhat pedestrian 5% in 2018, some local market areas appear to be positioned to grow at more than double that rate. When Electrical Marketing's editors analyzed the year-end employment data for the core construction and manufacturing business segments in more than 340 local metropolitan markets, we spotted quite a few metros that were growing at twice the year-over-year (YOY) percent increases for construction employment (+4%). Many of these metropolitan areas are included in the table on page 2, which highlights the 50 largest metros when ranked in terms of EM's Core Electrical Potential (the total of electrical contractor and industrial estimated sales potential).