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 2008 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 3,050,444 2 Tri State Utility Products Inc. Marietta, GA 2,806,452 3 United Utility Supply Louisville, KY 2,282,609 4 Priority Wire & Cable Inc. North Little Rock, AR 2,147,908 5 Utility Supply & Service Georgetown, TX 2,090,909 6 Arkansas Electric Cooperatives Inc. Little Rock, AR 1,877,778 7 General Pacific Inc. Portland, OR 1,865,517 8 International Electrical Sales Corp. Miami 1,781,250 9 Reynolds Co., The Fort Worth, TX 1,256,684 10 Omni Cable Corp. West Chester, PA 1,193,061 11 Houston Wire & Cable Houston 1,138,609 12 Villa Lighting Supply St. Louis 1,135,802 13 Advance Electrical and Industrial Supply Norcross, GA 1,066,436 14 Caniff Electric Supply Hamtramck, MI 1,032,258 15 Wholesale Electric Supply Co. of Houston Inc. Houston 1,018,605 16 Allied Wholesale Electrical Supply Inc. Indianapolis 1,016,020 17 Turtle & Hughes Linden, NJ 1,015,361 18 Sunrise Electric Supply Addison, IL 1,014,925 19 Connexion Buffalo Grove, IL 1,000,000 21 Lasalle Electric Supply Livonia, MI 993,750 22 OneSource Distributors LLC Oceanside, CA 975,862 23 WESCO Distribution Inc. Pittsburgh 947,663 24 Independent Electric Supply Inc. San Carlos, CA 933,333 25 Codale Electric Supply Inc. Salt Lake City 927,106

Tables & Analysis

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