How a request becomes a phone call, and who pays whom
ElectricianMatch is a referral service. We are not an electrical contractor, we do not employ electricians, and we do not do or answer for any work. We write guides about electrical costs, permits and licensing, and we pass your request to an independent electrical company that has agreed to receive it. This page says exactly what happens, and where the money comes from.
What happens when you send a request
- 01You give us the job, your ZIP code and a way to reach you.We keep the request, the time, your IP address and the exact consent wording you agreed to, so there is a record of what you asked for and what you said yes to.
- 02We send it to one independent electrical company that serves your ZIP.That may be a company we deal with directly, or a referral partner that places requests with the companies it works with. The consent line on the form says a referral partner may act for the company. Either way the request goes to a single company.
- 03The company contacts you.You agree the work and the price with it. ElectricianMatch is not part of that agreement, and the company answers for the work.
- 04If nobody contacts you, no company took the request.That can happen on an unusual job or in a ZIP code few companies cover. Treat it as unmatched and use your state's license lookup or your city's permit office to find an electrician yourself.
How we are paid
The electrical company, or the referral partner acting for it, pays us for each request it receives. You never pay us. The fee does not depend on whether you hire the electrician, and we take no share of the job.
Being paid per request gives us a reason to make requests easy to send, and we push against that in the writing: every service page says what to check first, and where a job needs no electrician at all, it says so before it shows the form. Payment never changes what a page recommends, and the companies that pay us do not see a page before it is published.
What we check, and what we do not
The first list is what we stand behind. The second is what stays with you.
- Every code, permit and licensing statement on the site links to the statute, rule or government page it came from, and anything we cannot source does not run. Where we could only read a source through a summary, the sentence says so.
- Cost figures are labeled as estimates and say how they were built.
- We do not inspect, rate or answer for any electrician's work, and we do not publish reviews of electricians.
- We do not set or negotiate prices.
- We do not promise a company will call, that one serves your address, or that any company that receives a request holds a license. Check the license number you are given.
Check the license yourself, it takes two minutes
Electrical work is licensed work in most states, and each state has its own board and its own public lookup. Our guide to finding a licensed electrician shows the steps for the state that is live, and the guide on license types explains what apprentice, journeyman, master and contractor mean there. For any other state, ask for the license number and look it up with that state's licensing board.
Your information
Your request goes to the company described above and to the vendors that run our forms, hosting and call tracking. Depending on where you live, privacy laws let you ask what we hold and ask us to delete it, and the sharing that some laws treat as a sale can be switched off on the Do Not Sell or Share page. The privacy policy is the controlling document.
Who runs this
ElectricianMatch (electricianmatchusa.com) is operated under that name. Editorial questions, privacy requests and partner inquiries all go to support@electricianmatchusa.com, and the mailing address is on the contact page. Electrical companies that want to receive requests can also use the partner page.