Top 25 as Ranked by Sales Per Employee

As in the past, specialty distributors, which tend to have fewer customers and employees than full-line electrical distributors, dominate the list of distributors as ranked by sales per employee. The companies here were among those respondents that provided both a 2009 sales number and an employee count for publication in this year's listing.

Rank Company Headquarters Sales Per Employee 1 Western United Electric Supply Brighton, CO 2,814,815 2 United Utility Supply Cooperative Corp. Louisville, KY 2,500,000 3 Tri State Utility Products Inc. Marietta, GA 2,419,355 4 Rural Electric Supply Cooperative (RESCO) Middleton, WI 2,369,565 5 TEC Utility Supply & Service Georgetown, TX 1,784,314 6 Arkansas Electric Cooperatives Inc. Little Rock, AR 1,750,000 7 International Electrical Sales Corp. (IESCO) Miami 1,468,750 8 General Pacific Inc. Fairview, OR 1,382,759 9 Gresco Utility Supply, Inc Forsyth, GA 1,154,639 10 The Reynolds Co. Fort Worth, TX 1,063,953 11 Omni Cable Corp. West Chester, PA 954,819 12 Houston Wire & Cable Houston 950,746 13 Codale Electric Supply Inc. Salt Lake City 950,270 14 Gallant & Win Corp. Long Island City, NY 885,714 15 Lasalle Electric Livonia, MI 876,000 16 Turtle & Hughes Inc. Linden, NJ 872,222 17 Shepherd Electric Supply Baltimore 864,583 18 OneSource Distributors, LLC Oceanside, CA 859,649 19 Advance Electrical & Industrial Supply Norcross, GA 852,541 20 Professional Electric Products Co. (PEPCO) Eastlake, OH 842,105 21 I.G. Federal Electrical Supply Corp. Long Island City, NY 837,159 23 Connexion Buffalo Grove IL 791,892 24 Independent Electric Supply Inc. San Carlos, CA 791,489 25 Sunrise Electric Supply Addison, IL 775,000 25 WESCO Distribution Inc. Pittsburgh 758,025