Publish Date: October 2026
Updated Tariff & Recession Risk Analysis and Forecasts
The Electrical Equipment Manufacturing Market Report covers the $60 billion industry which produces components and systems managing, transforming, and applying electrical power across industrial, utility, commercial, and residential applications. Competitive structure encompasses global electrical equipment corporations alongside specialized manufacturers addressing particular equipment categories or application sectors. Market demands increasingly emphasize energy efficiency, power quality, operational reliability particularly for critical applications, and increasingly digital capabilities supporting monitoring and management. Manufacturers face challenges balancing electrical engineering requirements, regulatory compliance across diverse markets, quality assurance for safety-critical applications, and significant tariff implications affecting both component sourcing and international market access. Industry leaders differentiate through advanced engineering optimizing electrical performance and efficiency, specialized designs addressing particular application requirements, comprehensive certification ensuring compliance, and increasingly digital capabilities supporting energy management and system monitoring in a sector where reliability specifications and safety credentials directly impact purchasing decisions.
Electrical Equipment Manufacturing Industry Definition
Electrical Equipment Manufacturing produces devices that generate, transform, distribute, and control electrical power for industrial, commercial, and utility applications. Companies design and build equipment including transformers, switchgear, motors, and control devices essential to electrical infrastructure. Manufacturing processes include magnetic core production, coil winding, insulation system integration, assembly of conductive components, enclosure fabrication, testing under load conditions, and certification to electrical standards. These businesses create the fundamental components enabling modern electrical systems. The industry continuously improves reliability, efficiency, safety features, and increasingly, digital monitoring and control capabilities while developing enhanced insulation systems, improved materials, and advanced designs that optimize performance and reliability in critical power applications.
NAICS Code: 3353
Total # of Companies: 1,847
Total # of Factories / Facilities: 2,051
Industry Employees: 127,621
Market Size: $60 billion
TARIFF IMPACT (Summer 2025 – Download Report for Updated Analysis)
This report has in-depth analysis on the recent US tariff changes on material costs, quantifying import dependencies, tariff exposure rates, and key source countries for the electrical equipment manufacturing sector.
Estimated Tariff Cost: $3.9 billion
Relative Tariff Impact: SEVERE
Electrical Equipment Manufacturing Report Format
The 2026 U.S. Electrical Equipment Manufacturing Market Report is 63 pages of deep insights into the trends, dynamics, and forecasts shaping the industry. Professionals leverage this market report to develop a deep understanding of the market for business strategy, planning, forecasting, benchmarking, industry analysis, valuations, identifying organizational inefficiencies, financial analysis, and more.
The report has over 100 industry statistical data sets with historicals (2017-2025), trend analysis, and forecasts for 2026 and the next 5 years. The report includes market size & growth, in-depth OPEX analysis on 26 categories, financial ratio benchmarks, forecasts on 100+ data sets, inventory statistics, composition of balance sheets, numerous industry segmentations, industry concentration analysis, material costs analysis, profitability analysis, state metrics analysis, plant utilization, organizational breakdown, inflation trend benchmarks, wage analysis, employee productivity benchmarks, and more.
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Report Table of Contents
Explore the below table of contents to appreciate why thousands of professionals, bankers, consultants, accountants, and other executives rely on Kentley Insights for data-rich industry insights.
For this report, the core data is sourced from comprehensive business, operational, and economic surveys conducted by government and private institutions and filled out by a statistically significant number of companies in the electrical equipment manufacturing sector. Our analysts develop the forecasts utilizing econometric models based on historical statistical analysis, industry trends and dynamics, macroeconomic analysis & forecasts.
1-2 – Market Report Overview & Contents
3 – Market Overview
– Data Sources, Industry Definition & Market Commentary
4 – Market Synopsis – Revenue & Growth
5 – Market Synopsis – Costs & Profitability
SECTION ONE
REVENUE & GROWTH ANALYSIS
7 – Market Size Details
– Industry Revenues, Companies & Facilities
– Trend Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
8 – Growth Benchmarks
– Sales per Company & Plant
– Trend Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
9 – Product Lines Revenue
– Percentage of Revenue from Product Lines
10 – BCG Matrix – Net Income vs. Revenue Growth
– Subsectors vs. Industry
11 – Total Sales by Month & Year
– 2021-2025 Sales per Month
12 – Inventory Value by Month & Year
– Inventory Value per Month for 2021-2025
13 – Months of Inventory
– Months of Inventory per Month for 2021-2025
14 – Sector Revenue by Segments
– Concentration Segments by Top Companies
– Business Size Segments
– Business Structure Segments
15 – Market Size by State
16 – Market Size as a % of State GDP
17 – Sales as a % of State Manufacturing
18 – Market Segmentation by Business Size
19 – Market Segmentation by Business Size
– Business Size Segments – 1-4, 5-9, 10-20, 21-50, 51-100, 101-250, & 250+ employees
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
20 – Segmentation by Concentration (Top 50 Companies)
– Concentration Segments – Top 4, 5-8, 9-20, & 21-50 companies
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
21 – Market Share of Top 50 Companies
22 – Subsector Market Share of Top 50 Companies
23 – Segmentation by Business Structure
– Business Structure Segments – C-Corporations, S-Corporations, Partnerships, & Sole Proprietorships
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
24 – Revenue per Company by State
– Revenue per Company
25 – Revenue per Company by Segments
26 – Revenue per Facility by State
27 – Revenue per Facility by Segment
– Business Size, Concentration, & Structure
28 – Subsector Growth
– Sales and 5-Year Growth
29 – Subsector Statistics
– Sales per Company & Facility, and 5-Year Growth
30 – Consolidation Analysis
– 5-Year Growth of Companies & Locations
31 – Employment Consolidation Analysis
– 5-Year Growth of Employee Statistics
32 – Subsector Consolidation Analysis
– Number of Companies & Facilities
– 5-Year Growth
33 – Subsector Consolidation Analysis
– Facilities per Company
– Employees per Company
– 5-Year Growth
SECTION TWO
COST, CAPITAL & PROFIT BENCHMARKS
35 – Profitability & Financial Ratio Analysis
– Percent of Companies that are Profitable
– Average Net Income as a Percent of Revenue
– 10 of the Top Financial Ratios
– Assets and Liabilities indexed to industry revenue at 100
– Current & Non-Current Assets: 14 Categories
– Short-term, Long-term Liabilities, & Net Worth: 13 Categories
37 – OPEX
– Industry OPEX
– Revenue vs. OPEX Growth
– OPEX as a Percent of Revenue
– Trend Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
38 – OPEX by Company & Plant
– OPEX per Company & Facility
– Revenue vs. Expenses Growth per Plant
– Trend Analysis & Forecasts
Page 39 – OPEX Detail
– Employee Expenses: payroll, insurance, pension, defined contribution plans, fringe benefits, temps
– Cost of Materials: materials, parts, containers, packaging, cost of resale, electricity and fuels, contract work
– Buildings and Equipment: capex for equipment, rental or lease for equipment, capex for buildings and structures, rental or leases, repair and maintenance
– Other Operating Expenses: professional and technical services, IT software and hardware, data processing and communications, advertising, refuse removal, taxes and license fees, other
-Inventory Breakdown: finished goods, work-in-progress, materials and supplies
40 – Production Material Costs & Tariff Analysis
– Top Production Material Costs Breakdown
– Industry & Material Tariff Analysis – % of costs, import %, tariff costs, source countries
41 – Producer Pricing Index
– Annual PPI – Indexed to 2006
– Trend Analysis & Forecasts
– Monthly PPI Figures for the Past 4 Years
42 – Plant Utilization & Hours
– Plant Utilization Rate
– Plant Operational Hours per Week
– 2022-2025 Historical Figures by Quarter
43 – Reasons for Non-Full Production
– 7 Categories Quarterly Survey Results for Past 2 Years
44 – Productivity & Employment
– Revenue per Employee
– Total Employees
– Employees per Company
– Trend Analysis & Forecasts
45 – Employee Productivity by Segments
– Business Size, Concentration, & Structure
46 – Employee Productivity by State
47 –Subsector Sales & Payroll per Employee
– Absolute & 5-Year Growth
48 – Payroll Analysis
– Payroll per Employee, Company & Plant
– Trend Analysis & Forecasts
49 – Payroll per Company by Segments
50 – Payroll per Plant by Segments
51 – Payroll per Employee by Segments
52 – Payroll per Employee by State
53 – Organizational Composition
– % of Employees for 27 Job Categories
– Management & Finance
– Sales & Marketing
– Technology, Engineering, Science
– Service, Support & Training
– Operations
54 – Job Categorization Pay Ranges
– Management & Finance
– Sales, Service & Marketing
– Operations
– Pay Bands – Bottom 10% & 25%, Mean, Top 25% & 10%
55 – Top 20 Jobs Breakdown
56 – Top 20 Jobs Pay
57 – Employees per Company by Segments
58 – Employees per Plant by Segments
59 – Facilities per Company by Segments
60 – Total Employment by State
61 – Population to Every Employee by State
62 – Employees per Facility by State
63 – Overview of Kentley Insights
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Product Lines, Materials, and Jobs Covered in Report
PRODUCT LINES
Motor and generator manufacturing
Switchgear and switchboard apparatus manufacturing
Relay and industrial control manufacturing
Power, distribution, and specialty transformer manufacturing
MATERIAL COST CATEGORIES
Cost of all other materials and components, parts, containers, and supplies consumed
Materials, ingredients, containers, and supplies, nsk
Electric motors, generators, and parts
Switchgear and switchboard apparatus
Semiconductors, including transistors, diodes, rectifiers, and integrated circuits for electronic circuitry, and related devices
Gas engines (excluding aircraft, automobile, and marine); diesel, semidiesel; and piston-type natural gas engines, and parts
Misc. fabricated metal products (excluding hardware, containers, screw machine, bearing components, castings, forgings, and wire)
Misc. iron, steel, and ferroalloy ingot, shapes, and forms (excluding castings, forgings, bars, structural, wire, sheet, strip)
Misc. copper-base alloy shapes and forms (exclud. wire products, ingot, castings, cathodes, anodes, pipe, tube, rods, bar)
Capacitors, resistors, coils, transformers, and other inductors
Printed circuit boards (without inserted components) for electronic circuitry
Sheet metal products, excluding stampings
Nonferrous metal castings (excluding aluminum and aluminum-based alloy)
Steel structural shapes and sheet piling (excluding castings, forgings, and fabricated metal products)
Copper and copper-base alloy wire products
Steel sheet, steel strip, and tin mill products
Paper and paperboard products
Nonferrous metal shapes, forms, sheet, strip, powder, and wire (excluding castings / forgings), excluding aluminum and copper
Plastics products (including packaging, foam products, film, sheet, rod, tube, fabricated shapes, bottles, etc.)
Metal bolts, nuts, screws, washers, rivets, and other screw machine products
INDUSTRY JOBS ANALYZED
Electrical, Electronics, and Electromechanical Assemblers
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators
Electrical and Electronics Engineers
First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
Engineering Technicians, Except Drafters
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
Mechanical Engineers
Machinists
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing
Industrial Engineers, Including Health and Safety
Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Workers
Laborers and Material Movers, Hand
General and Operations Managers
Engine and Other Machine Assemblers
Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Machine Tool Cutting Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Miscellaneous Production Workers
Drafters
Buyers and Purchasing Agents
Architectural and Engineering Managers
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