Business phone system for all other specialty trade contractors in Arkansas

All other specialty trade contractors in Arkansas by the numbers

County Business Patterns counts 227 establishments in Arkansas classified as All Other Specialty Trade Contractors (NAICS 238990) for 2023. They employed 1,683 people in mid-March and reported $83.1 million in annual payroll. That is the 37th highest count among the 51 states and DC with published figures. All other specialty trade contractors make up 0.32% of the 70,452 business establishments in the state.

Per 100,000 residents (2024 estimate) Arkansas has 7.4 all other specialty trade contractors, 41.5% below the national rate of 12.6. The average establishment has 7.4 employees against 7.2 nationally. Payroll per employee is $49,350, 30.4% below the U.S. figure of $70,871.

Where all other specialty trade contractors in Arkansas are concentrated

Census published specialty trade contractor counts for 14 metro or micropolitan areas that include part of Arkansas. The largest is Memphis, TN-MS-AR, with 89 establishments (a multi-state area; its count covers every state it spans). Single-state metro and micropolitan areas account for 74% of the statewide total; the rest are outside any published area or in areas Census suppressed.

Team sizes at all other specialty trade contractors in Arkansas

56.9% of Arkansas's all other specialty trade contractors with employees had fewer than five people in March 2023, compared with 67.0% nationally. 77.8% had fewer than ten. That is the size of team where a missed call usually means nobody was free, not that nobody was on staff.

Why the phone matters for all other specialty trade contractors in Arkansas

This category covers fencing, paving, pool construction and other specialty work. These contractors depend on estimate calls from homeowners and businesses and are usually in the field. That holds for all other specialty trade contractors in Arkansas as much as anywhere.

A few of the calls that come in to all other specialty trade contractors in Arkansas:

• The contractor calls a customer to schedule work.
• A business calls about parking lot striping.
• A customer calls about a pool installation.

After-hours calls

After-hours calls are mostly estimate requests.

Callata voicemail is transcribed and triaged for urgency, and business-hours routing decides where calls go once you close.

What a phone system costs a specialty trade contractor in Arkansas

All other specialty trade contractors in Arkansas average 7.4 employees, so the comparison uses a 7-person team. Priced per seat, 7 users would run $210.00 a month on RingCentral RingEX Core and $174.65 on Ooma Office Pro (month-to-month list prices, checked September 28, 2026). On Callata the same 7 people cost $139.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.

The annual difference against RingCentral's monthly list price comes to $852. Some vendors discount annual contracts; the table shows month-to-month prices.

Area codes in Arkansas

Arkansas has 4 geographic area codes in service according to NANPA. You can choose local numbers in the area codes your customers know, subject to carrier inventory, or port your current number for free.

How Callata works for all other specialty trade contractors in Arkansas

Callata Office costs $99 per month for up to 5 people, and each additional user is $20 a month. That covers up to 3 local numbers, calling from a browser or your cell, transcribed voicemail, recorded calls with AI summaries, after-hours routing and E911 on each number.

If you already have a number in Arkansas, porting it to Callata is free. Texting from a local number requires a one-time carrier registration (10DLC, $49), and the numbers available in any area code depend on carrier inventory when you choose them.

Optional AI agents (receptionist, sales, support or scheduler) can answer calls after hours or when nobody picks up, take messages, text, email and transfer to your team. They are billed from prepaid AI minutes at $0.25 per minute, identify themselves as AI, and may only place outbound calls to people who consented, between 8am and 9pm.