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Electrician ads in Boston: US$12.06 a click

A Google Ads click for an electrician in Boston costs US$12.06 at the search-weighted average (1,494 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 33.9% on the 12 months before.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
US$12.06
Searches a month
1,494
Year on year
down 33.9%
Click cost per booked job
US$357

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about US$357 in clicks at US$12.06 a click.

In Boston, the lowest click price on this page is general searches at US$5.29. The highest click price on this page in Boston is urgent at US$32.27.

Cost per booked job

What a booked job costs in clicks

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about US$357 in clicks at US$12.06 a click.

Cost per booked job in Boston is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not Boston figures; the planner below starts from them and you can change both.

Intent groupClick pricePer booked job
General searchesUS$5.29US$156
Near meUS$19.16US$567
UrgentUS$32.27US$954
Specific jobsUS$11.71US$346

Each row uses the same two rates as the sentence above, so the order follows click price.

By intent

Where the electrician searches are in Boston

Searches split by what the searcher typed. The two tags rank the groups on this page by click price; they are rankings, not verdicts.

General searches are the largest share of counted search volume in Boston, at 46.1%.

In Boston, urgent has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at US$32.27 a click.

An urgent search (“emergency electrician”) costs US$29.35 a click, against US$5.29 for “electrician”.

General searches

Lowest click price on this page
“electrician”
Searches a month689, 46.1% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$5.29
In Boston, 1st of 4 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Near me

“electrician near me”
Searches a month562, 37.6% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$19.16

Urgent

Highest click price on this page
“emergency electrician”, “24 hour electrician”
Searches a month37, 2.5% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$32.27
In Boston, 4th of 4 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Specific jobs

“ceiling fan installation”, “switchboard upgrade”, “ev charger installation”, “smoke alarm installation”, “lighting installation”, “electrical contractor”
Searches a month207, 13.8% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$11.71

Related keywords

Not counted
“solar electrician”
Searches a month8
Click price, weighted avgno Google price
Related keywords sit next to this service but are not counted in the searches or the search-weighted average click price above.
Plan

Plan a month of electrician ads in Boston

Put in your own value per job and margin. The call and booking rates start at the benchmarks named under each box; change them to your own.

What the budget buys (worked example)

Clicks a month
82.9
Calls or forms
6.7
Booked jobs
2.8
Click cost per booked job
US$357

US$1,000 at US$12.06 a click buys about 82.9 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 6.7 calls and 2.8 booked jobs, so each booked job costs about US$357 in clicks.

Put in your value per job and your margin to see whether this pays back.

Keywords

Every electrician keyword tracked in Boston

Monthly searches are the average of the last 12 months. Related keywords are shown for context and are not counted in any total on this page.

The most-searched electrician keywords in Boston are “electrician” (689 searches a month at US$5.29 a click), “electrician near me” (562 searches a month at US$19.16 a click), and “electrical contractor” (57 searches a month at US$22.63 a click).

In Boston, “24 hour electrician” is the keyword furthest from the country median: US$40.15 a click, 91.3% above the US$20.99 median click price for electrician across this country's tracked cities.

In Boston, “switchboard upgrade” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 0 searches a month.

In Boston, 8 of the 10 counted electrician keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
electricianGeneral searches689US$5.29
electrician near meNear me562US$19.16
emergency electricianUrgent27US$29.35
24 hour electricianUrgent10US$40.15
electrical contractorSpecific jobs57US$22.63
ev charger installationSpecific jobs57US$11.68
smoke alarm installationSpecific jobs43US$5.02
ceiling fan installationSpecific jobs38US$2.96
lighting installationSpecific jobs12no price
switchboard upgradeSpecific jobs0no price
solar electrician
Related, not counted
Related keywords8no price
Ranks and trend

How Boston compares in the United States

Over the 48 months tracked, electricians searches in Boston peaked in October 2024 at 3,580 and were lowest in November 2025 at 1,040. Boston's single latest tracked month is up 25.8% on the same month a year ago and down 28.6% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Boston, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "switchboard upgrade", down 100.0%.

  • Boston is 4th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.
  • Boston is 39th of 50 United States cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
  • Boston is the only city in Massachusetts in this set, so there is no same-state rank.
  • For this service, Boston sits in Massachusetts, which is 31st of 31 states by businesses per 10,000 people, the highest (an average of 3.6 businesses per 10,000 people across Massachusetts).
  • Boston's 29.7 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 90.8 for this service.
  • Boston's median electrician click price of US$12.06 is 42.5% below the country median of US$20.99.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 33.9% on the 12 months before.
  • In Boston, searches are fairly even through the year; the busiest month, July, is not a strong peak.
Businesses

Electrician businesses in Boston

The US Census Bureau counts 1,813 businesses in this industry in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (2023), about 3.6 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: employer establishments.

Counts cover businesses with employees; most sole traders are not included.

Population: 5,034,221 (Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH). Source: US Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP), MSA/micropolitan estimates, vintage 2023.

Business counts are never compared across countries on this site: each country's statistics agency counts a different set of businesses.

6 countries

Electrician click prices in 6 countries

United States is 6th of 6 countries by median electrician click price (lowest first), all in US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

CountryMedian click (US$)Searches per 100,000 peopleCities
IrelandUS$4.42314.75
New ZealandUS$6.10214.36
United KingdomUS$6.90170.025
CanadaUS$7.85106.513
AustraliaUS$17.29290.425
United States
this page's country
US$20.9990.850

Medians across each country's tracked cities, same pull month. Each country uses its own keyword set and its own name for the service. Only click prices and searches are compared across borders; business counts are not.

Rules

Rules for electricians in the United States

Licensing is set by each state.

FAQ

Questions people ask about electrician ads in Boston

How much does a Google Ads click cost for an electrician in Boston?

US$12.06 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted electrician search terms in Boston (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026). Boston is 4th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.

How many people search for an electrician in Boston each month?

1,494 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 33.9% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026).

What does a booked job cost in clicks for electricians in Boston?

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42.00% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about US$357 in clicks at US$12.06 a click.

Where do the numbers on this page come from?

Searches and click prices: Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026. Lead rate: LocaliQ 2026 (US benchmark). Booking rate: ServiceTitan (US/Canada benchmark). Population and business counts: US Census Bureau County Business Patterns (CBP) 2022, bulk file cbp22msa.zip (NAICS x MSA) (Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors). Every source is listed at the bottom of this page.

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Method

Search terms: a fixed keyword set per service for United States, tagged by intent (general, near me, urgent and specific jobs), targeted to Boston with Google Ads location codes, not a text match.

Monthly searches is the average of the last 12 months, summed across the counted keywords. Related keywords are listed but never counted.

Click price is the search-weighted average click price across the counted keywords (sum of each keyword's click price times its monthly searches, divided by total searches), as Google Ads reports the per-keyword prices via DataForSEO.

Year on year compares the last 12 months of counted searches with the 12 months before.

Cost per booked job is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The lead rate is LocaliQ's US share of clicks that become calls or forms for the closest industry (US benchmark); the booking rate is ServiceTitan's share of calls that book, for trades (US/Canada benchmark). Where either rate has no source, the page prints no number.

Google Ads reports click prices in US$, so no currency conversion applies.

The tags “Lowest click price on this page” and “Highest click price on this page” rank the intent groups on this page by click price. They are rankings, not verdicts.

Sources

Data and sources

Search data pulled October 13, 2026. Google Keyword Planner estimates via DataForSEO, not what you will pay at auction; your own Google Ads account shows your real price.

DatasetLicense
DataForSEO, retrieved October 13, 2026
DataForSEO Terms of Service (paid API)
US benchmark lead rate (calls and forms), Home & Home Improvement
Published benchmark, cited
US/Canada benchmark booking rate, trades
Published benchmark, cited
Business counts, 2023
US government work / public domain
Population

Related: Electrician in New York, Electrician in Los Angeles, Electrician in Chicago, Electrician across United States, All services in Boston.

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