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3,375 electricians across California, every one with a working number and its own rating. No lead auction and no pay to rank.

Circuit directory Spark, California
  1. 1 Electricians listed 3,375
  2. 3 Cities covered 485
  3. 5 Guides written 17
  4. 7 Calculators 7
  5. 9 Average rating 4.81
  1. 2 States licensed 51
  2. 4 Counties, of 58 55
  3. 6 Kinds of work 16
  4. 8 Open 24 hours 968
  5. 10 Paid placements 0
Every slot on this list is a real business with a working number.

Work electricians do here

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Ranked by rating weighted against how many people left one, so a 4.9 with three hundred reviews sits above a 5.0 with three.


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Transformer Street 120 V 240 V Theirs Yours Meter Everything past it is yours Main 200 A 15 A 20 A 40 A Your panel Two bus bars, one per leg Lights One leg, 15 amps at 120 volts Outlets One leg, 20 amps at 120 volts Car charger Both legs, 40 amps at 240 volts Ground rod Leg one, 120 volts Leg two, 120 volts Neutral, the middle tap Ground A circuit in the house
The transformer on the pole has a tap halfway along its winding. That tap is the neutral. From either leg to the neutral you get 120 volts, which runs the lights and nearly every outlet in the house. Across both legs you get 240 volts. That is what a range, a dryer and a car charger need, and it is why those breakers are twice as tall and take two slots. The meter is the dividing line. Everything past it is yours.

How this list is built

Every business here is a working electrician in California, checked one at a time against its own public listing. A listing only publishes when the record matches by id, not by name. That is what keeps one company from being confused with a company of the same name a county away.

Nobody pays to be on this list. Nobody pays to move up it. There is no tracking number in front of the real one. The phone number on a profile is the one the business publishes.

How Spark works

Check the license yourself

Every electrical contractor in California holds a C 10 license, and the record is public. Before you hire anyone, search the number they give you. Check that it matches the name on the contract.

Where a listing matches an active C-10 record at the contractor board, its profile says so and links to that record. We never print a license number as a fact on its own. A number copied from a listing and shown as fact is how a stale record turns into a claim about somebody. The board record is the live one.

How we check licenses

How to check a license and read a quote

Learn before you call

Learning center

Working in the trade

Spark also carries a learning center for electricians. How to get into an apprenticeship, what the certification path looks like in California, how to pass the journeyman exam, and what it takes to run your own shop.

The licensing pages cover all fifty states, because the rules change hard at a state line and most of what is written about this online is wrong for where you live.

Calculators that show their working

Voltage drop, wire size, conduit fill, box fill, a dwelling load calculation, Ohm law and electric car charge time. Every one prints the arithmetic underneath the answer, so it is useful on a job and useful the week before an exam.