Revenue for the Midwest’s top specialty contracting firms remained strong in 2018. Although business was down last year compared with the previous two record-setting years, leaders from the firms tend to agree they have more than enough in the pipeline to weather any storm.
A total of 68 firms responded to ENR Midwest’s annual survey and reported total revenue of $8.84 billion. That’s down from the $10.03 billion in work that 55 contracting firms reported last year, but the 2018 revenue was still strong enough to rank as the third-highest year since ENR Midwest first conducted the survey in 2004. Respondents covered the entire 11-state area of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Kentucky.