Trends from Our Longtime Top 50 Service Firms

This year marks the eighth iteration of the Top 50 Service list. Here, we track the performance of companies that appeared most or all of the years.

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The Top 50 Service program is beginning to mature. So we had to make use of the data we’ve collected so far.

This is our eighth list, and we’ve been lucky enough to count certain companies as repeat honorees.

Twenty have made the list for the past five consecutive years or more, while six have appeared on all eight.

In the hopes of producing a microcosm of the industry to see how it’s fared, we’ve pulled and tracked the data supplied by each of these companies. For our five-year group, we look at their data from 2020 to 2024 (while they appeared in the lists from 2021-2025, they provided data from the year before.) While most of their metrics show inclines in the five years, only average staff tenure has seen a reduction.

Meanwhile, we see how our elite eight-year group did from 2017 to 2024. These companies have proven themselves to be a steady lot: In all the examined metrics, from revenues to accounts to staff number and tenure, they showed moderate but continual growth.

Needless to say, external factors have not remained the same over the past several years. To take higher costs into account, we’ve adjusted our revenue charts. You’ll see earnings expressed in both real-time dollars and converted into 2020 dollars for the five-year group and 2017 dollars for the eight-year group. This makes it easier to compare apples to apples from the beginning of the time period to the end.

Our Five Timers

These companies have appeared on the Top 50 Service list for at least the past five consecutive years.

The following companies have been featured on the Top 50 Service list since the program began in 2018.

About the Author

Rebecca Robledo

Rebecca Robledo is deputy editor of Pool & Spa News and Aquatics International. She is an award-winning trade journalist with more than 25 years experience reporting on and editing content for the pool, spa and aquatics industries. She specializes in technical, complex or detail-oriented subject matter with an emphasis in design and construction, as well as legal and regulatory issues. For this coverage and editing, she has received numerous awards, including four Jesse H. Neal Awards, considered by many to be the “Pulitzer Prize of Trade Journalism.”