How we research, write and check what we publish
Every page here makes claims about money, building codes or the law. This is the standard each one has to meet before it goes live, how the cost estimates are built, and what we do when we are wrong.
Who writes and who reviews
Pages are written by the ElectricianMatch editorial team, and each one is checked against the sources listed at its foot. No licensed technical reviewer has been appointed yet, so no page claims to be expert reviewed.
When a named, licensed reviewer is appointed, this section will show their name, license number, state, years in the trade and a link to the public registry entry, and each page they have read will say so. Until then, treat the sources at the bottom of each page as the authority and check anything that matters with your state's licensing board or your city.
Where the numbers come from
| Figure | Source | How often it is checked |
|---|---|---|
| Population, housing age, home value | U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey five-year estimates 2023 (tables B01003, B25034, B25077) | Each ACS release |
| Electrician wages | U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release, electricians (SOC 47-2111), for the state and metro area of the page. These are wages paid to electricians, not prices charged to homeowners. | Each BLS release |
| Permit fees | The enforcing agency's own published schedule. A dated or partly inconsistent schedule is flagged on the page with a note to check with your city, and a city with no readable schedule shows no fee. | When the agency adopts a new schedule |
| Cost estimates | National cost ranges published by third-party sites, used only as inputs to the model and never cited, adjusted by the electrician wage ratio of your state to the US and a typical permit fee. Labelled estimates, not quotes. | Each BLS release, or when an agency changes its fee schedule |
| Prices electrical companies publish | None collected yet. When a page shows one, it will name the company, the date we read it and how many companies it rests on. | Each collection round |
| Codes, permits, licensing | State statutes, administrative rules, the state licensing board's pages, the state's list of who enforces the code and city permit pages, each linked on the page that uses it | When a rule changes or a reader reports one |
| Utility facts and rebates | The utility's own pages, with the date we read them. Dollar amounts appear only where the utility prints them, and each page says that availability can change. | Each review |
| Which electric utility serves a city | The state's service-territory map, sampled at several points in each city. Border streets can differ, so confirm by address with the utility. | Each review |
The rules every page follows
- 1A fact we cannot source is left out. A fact we could only read through a summary stays in only if the sentence says so. We do not guess a code rule, a section number or a permit fee from memory.
- 2Every cost figure is labeled an estimate and shows how it was built. We never present a range as a quote.
- 3Pages say when you do not need an electrician. If resetting a breaker or checking the utility's outage map settles it, the page says so before the form.
- 4We do not publish reviews, rankings or "best of" lists. We have no basis for ranking companies we do not inspect.
- 5Referral income never changes what a page recommends. Companies that pay for requests do not see pages before publication and cannot edit them.
- 6Each page shows the date it was last reviewed and, where it quotes prices, the date those prices are as of.
- 7Pages may be drafted with software help. A person reads each one, and every factual claim has to trace to a source we list, or it comes out.
How we estimate costs
The ranges on this site are estimates, not quotes. Each one is built the same way, in three steps. First, we take the national published cost ranges for the job (one to three per service, from third-party cost guides we have not been able to verify) and use the median of their lows and the median of their highs, widening the band by 15 percent each side when only one range exists. Those guides are inputs only: we do not show them as local prices. Second, we multiply by your state's electrician wage ratio to the US, the state mean hourly wage divided by the national mean (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2025). Third, for work that needs a permit, we add a typical permit fee, the median of the electrical permit schedules we could read in your state.
A wage is what electricians are paid, not what you are charged, and the wage ratio is the only way wages enter an estimate. The estimates are a model, not a survey: they do not rest on customer quotes or invoices, and we have not yet collected prices that electrical companies publish on their own sites, so read each range as a planning figure and not as an offer. Each estimate row says how many sources it rests on. When we collect company prices, we will say how many and from when. Figures are reviewed at least twice a year and whenever BLS or an agency's fee schedule changes, and each page shows its last review date. Your actual price depends on your home, the work and the electrician you choose.
Corrections
If something on this site is wrong, tell us which page, which number or rule, and what you saw instead, with a link if you have one. We check it against the source. If you are right we fix the page, write the date of the fix at the foot of that page and add a line to the log below.
- Oct 19, 2026: Launch. No corrections yet.
How the site is paid for
ElectricianMatch earns money when an electrical company, or a referral partner acting for one, receives a homeowner request from us. That is a conflict of interest and we say so on every page. The way we deal with it is in the rules above: sources on every claim, no rankings, no paid placement, and pages that tell you when not to call anyone. The full account is on how it works.
- ElectricianMatch: how we estimate costs (editorial policy) Read Oct 19, 2026.