NAICS 2022 · in 42361
423610
Electrical Apparatus and Equipment, Wiring Supplies, and Related Equipment Merchant Wholesalers
Analysis
NAICS 423610 is the 2022 national industry for electrical apparatus and equipment, wiring supplies, and related equipment merchant wholesalers, part of 42361 (Electrical Apparatus and Equipment, Wiring Supplies, and Related Equipment Merchant Wholesalers). Census lists 53 example activities under it in the official index.
County Business Patterns counts 13,379 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 229,921 people at an average annual payroll of $97,044 per employee (82nd percentile of national industries). 38% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include alarm apparatus, electric, merchant wholesalers, batteries (except automotive) merchant wholesalers, boxes and fittings, electrical, merchant wholesalers and bus bars and trolley ducts merchant wholesalers, among 53 in all.
Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 7% and employment rose 6%. The 2018 count used NAICS 2017, so part of a large move can come from codes being redefined rather than from businesses opening or closing.
Official definition
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of electrical construction materials; wiring supplies; electric light fixtures; light bulbs; and/or electrical power equipment for the generation, transmission, distribution, or control of electric energy.
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Index entries (53)
- Alarm apparatus, electric, merchant wholesalers
- Batteries (except automotive) merchant wholesalers
- Boxes and fittings, electrical, merchant wholesalers
- Bus bars and trolley ducts merchant wholesalers
- Capacitors (except electronic) merchant wholesalers
- Circuit breakers merchant wholesalers
- Coaxial cable merchant wholesalers
- Conduit, electric wire and cable, merchant wholesalers
- Conduits and raceways, electrical, merchant wholesalers
- Connectors, electrical, merchant wholesalers
- Construction materials, electrical, merchant wholesalers
- Current-carrying wiring devices merchant wholesalers
- Distribution equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers
- Electric light fixtures merchant wholesalers
- Electric motors, wiring supplies, and lighting fixtures merchant wholesalers
- Electric prime movers merchant wholesalers
- Electrical apparatus merchant wholesalers
- Fastening devices, electrical, merchant wholesalers
- Fittings, electrical, merchant wholesalers
- Fixtures, electric lighting, merchant wholesalers
- Flashlights merchant wholesalers
- Fuses, electric, merchant wholesalers
- Generators, electrical (except motor vehicle), merchant wholesalers
- Hanging devices, electrical, merchant wholesalers
- Hardware, transmission pole and line, merchant wholesalers
- Industrial controls, electrical, merchant wholesalers
- Instruments, electric measuring, merchant wholesalers
- Insulated wire or cable merchant wholesalers
- Insulators, electrical, merchant wholesalers
- Light bulbs merchant wholesalers
- Lighting fixtures, electric, merchant wholesalers
- Lightning arrestors merchant wholesalers
- Lugs and connectors, electrical, merchant wholesalers
- Meters, electrical, merchant wholesalers
- Motor controls, electric, merchant wholesalers
- Motors, electric, merchant wholesalers
- Panelboards, electric power distribution, merchant wholesalers
- Pole line hardware merchant wholesalers
- Power transmission equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers
- Receptacles, electrical, merchant wholesalers