Shop size poll, how many people

[Mule]

Ok, Im curious what the size of your shop is.....Some of you may be a one man band, and others might be involved in a 50 man shop...

as you already know, our is a two man, myself and one helper.

 

[chris kennedy]

20.........

 

[greg y]

3 guys in the field, owner in the shop.

 

[Rewire]

I have four guys in the field an office manager and myself.

 

[ohmhead]

Well our company which has normally 1200 people on staff and our total electricians in the work force is around 800 or so . We are in central florida and do mostly service work new residential , heavy commercial , industrial ,power plant just about every type of project we even work out of the good old usa . take care best to yas

 

[TOOL_5150]

2 in the field 2 in the office. We are a little different though, we are an in-house electrical contractor for a different company that sells other stuff. My supervisor is the license holder, his brother owns the whole company, im the foreman and I have a guy working under me.

~Matt

 

[RJohnsonMasterElectrician]

We were at 20 and just hired 3 more so technically were at 23 in the field and 10 in the office.

 

[Ebow]

The company I work for used to have eight plus the boss. Now it's down to just four and the boss. The boss does very little hands on work, he just bids and bills and whatever.

Gene
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[Karl H]

25 guys in the field, three in the office.

 

[nunu161]

we got about 25-30 in the field and 8 in the office

 

[B4T]

I used to have a helper, but found out it was much easier working alone. Pulling wires can be a problem, but you get good at finding a working system. I use a 200 ft. reel snake and pushing the wires into the pipe works really good if you put a 5 pound weight tied onto the reel handle. Things get slow and I don't have to worry about having work to keep anyone busy. Best part of being a one man band is NO STRESS!! :grin:

 

[infinity]

About 210 in the field and another 20-30 in the office. Given the current economic situation that number could be 150 in a few weeks.

 

[Mule]

I used to have a helper, but found out it was much easier working alone. Pulling wires can be a problem, but you get good at finding a working system. I use a 200 ft. reel snake and pushing the wires into the pipe works really good if you put a 5 pound weight tied onto the reel handle. Things get slow and I don't have to worry about having work to keep anyone busy. Best part of being a one man band is NO STRESS!! :grin:

Im going to try that !!! I assume your up in the air with that method, otherwise it would be on the ground after one shove??

Well twice as many folks have the 1-3 person size shop as compared to the greater than 15, so far....

 

[Short.Circuit]

Just me, myself & I. I used to have a helper, Sparky Jr., on big houses. He now sits & drinks all day. Don't miss him..

 

[tonyou812]

Just Moi. Hope to hire a full time apprentice within a few months.

 

[Mule]

About 210 in the field and another 20-30 in the office. Given the current economic situation that number could be 150 in a few weeks.

Wow, 210 thats enormous.....I bet its nice to have all of the resources that a large shop could offer. Estimators, engineers, material delivery.....etc..

 

[infinity]

Wow, 210 thats enormous.....I bet its nice to have all of the resources that a large shop could offer. Estimators, engineers, material delivery.....etc..

It has it's advantages, some of which you've mentioned. But it does have some disadvantages too one being that you could just end up being a number.

 

[220/221]

A year ago we had 3 in the office, 8 in the field and I was almost retired.

Today there are 2 in the office, 3 fulltime, 1 part time in the field and I am back to work maybe 3 days a week.

 

[iaov]

I'm a one man band. Occasionaly I hire a helper. I hope the economy settles down. I would like to hire a full time apprentice.

 

[don_resqcapt19]

We have about 30 now, but usually have over 40 and have had over 100 at times. There are 5 in the office.