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ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR is an award-winning, industry-leading magazine for the electrical construction sector. The magazine is published in print and online formats by the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) and is distributed to 80,000+ subscribers each month. Our audience consists of electrical contractor firm owners, engineers, estimators, purchasing agents, project managers, supervisors, journeymen and apprentice electricians. Our expert writers cover the latest updates in codes and standards, safety, tools, low-voltage, and more.

Safety is one of our key content areas, with selections labeled as SAFETY LEADER geared toward those who are supervising and guiding our readers into working safely and adopting a careful mindset as they approach electrical construction work. These stories bring readers important topics in safety leadership, codes and standards, PPE, workplace safety and more every month.

We’ve been publishing continuously since 1935—so we know a thing or two about the industry. And the demand for the latest industry stories hasn’t stopped.

We also offer a quarterly supplement geared specifically to the outside line audience within our subscriber base. Started in 2021, LINE CONTRACTOR is published in March, June, September and December. It focuses on everything related to outside line construction, such as construction and maintenance, high-voltage transmission and distribution, substations, outside line safety and more.

History

ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR was first published in its current form in 1935, and in previous iterations since 1901. As long as NECA has been around, so has a magazine serving the whole electrical construction industry. The magazine first went online starting in 2000, and has since gone through several designs with hundreds of articles shared both online and in print ever since.

First cover of the National Electrical Contractor magazine, 1901

The first issue of NECA's first magazine, The National Electrical Contractor, published in 1901.

ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR is a free subscription for everyone in the electrical construction industry in the United States.

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Awards

ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR has won numerous awards over the past several decades for business-to-business publications, including Tabbie, Ozzie, Eddie, Maggie, Folios, Apex, Clarion and EXCEL awards. Recent awards include:

2025:

Apex Award of Excellence for Magazines, Journals and Tabloids (over 32 pages)
Tabbie Honorable Mention for best feature article for "Silver Linings Forecast: 2024 Construction Outlook"
Tabbie Honorable Mention for focus/profile article for the "2024 Profile of the Electrical Contractor"
Tabbie Honorable Mention for front cover, digital imagery for the October 2024 issue

2024:

Tabbie Honorable Mention for best B2B website
Tabbie Honorable Mention for best e-newsletter
Tabbie Honorable Mention for best feature design for "Bringing Buildings Into the Modern Age," June 2023
Eddie Honorable Mention in the Energy/Utilities/Engineering category for the May 2023 issue
Eddie Honorable Mention in the B2B Technology category for the October 2023 issue
Eddie Honorable Mention for B2B Long-Form Feature Content for "Silver Linings Forecast: 2024 Construction Outlook"

2023:

Tabbie Award for Special Section or Issue for the December 2022 issue
Comments: Great issue and cover is eye-catching. Beautiful, clean, and sophisticated design throughout. A joy to read. Digital edition provides great navigation; top notch for readability.
Tabbie Honorable Mention for best B2B website
EXCEL Award for the 2022 Media Kit

2021:

EXCEL Award for General Excellence for Line Contractor 2021 issues
Tabbie Honorable Mention for 2021 Construction Outlook

2020:

Maggie Award for Best Non-Paid/Trade for June 2020 issue
Tabbie Bronze Award for June 2020 cover
EXCEL Award for June 2020 cover

Advertising and Media Kit

ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR offers many advertising opportunities. Please visit our media kit page where you can find details and contact information for our marketing representatives.

Submissions

ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR is not open for submissions. Our editorial policy dictates that 100% of our editorial must be from paid contributing editors or staff writers. ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR does not accept contributed articles.

However, if you would like to write for ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR, you may address an email to [email protected].