HVAC Installer Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

HVACHires had 733 open HVAC installer listings from 359 employers on October 13, 2026.

371 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 523 in the previous 30 days.

At least 0.8% of HVAC installer listings were part-time on October 13, 2026.

Listings that name no schedule are counted as full-time, so the real part-time share may be higher.

The benefit HVAC installer listings named most often on October 13, 2026 was paid time off, in 77.6% of listings, followed by health insurance (61.3%).

A listing that does not mention a benefit may still offer it.

To browse the openings themselves, see all HVAC installer listings.

The median annual wage for heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers, the BLS occupation that includes HVAC installers, was $61,010 in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, SOC 49-9021, May 2025).

The 25th percentile was $48,360 and the 75th percentile $77,060 a year (BLS OEWS, SOC 49-9021, May 2025).

Employers hiring HVAC installers on HVACHires advertise a median of $31.00 an hour across 200 employers on October 13, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

106 HVAC installer listings from 70 employers stated annual pay instead, at an employer median of $92,500 a year.

For BLS pay by percentile, see the HVAC installer salary guide, and for the full distribution of posted pay see our quarterly HVAC installer pay data release.

Florida had the most open HVAC installer listings on October 13, 2026, with 56 (7.6% of the national total).

New York followed with 42 (5.7%).

To browse the openings in one state, start with HVAC installer openings in Florida.

359 employers had open HVAC installer listings on HVACHires on October 13, 2026, and the five largest posted 29.6% of them.

300 employers (83.6%) had exactly one open HVAC installer listing.

BLS publishes no separate employment or wage figure for HVAC installers; they are counted inside heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers (SOC 49-9021).

BLS counted 409,670 wage-and-salary jobs in heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers (SOC 49-9021) in May 2025, a count that excludes the self-employed (BLS OEWS).

297,290 of those jobs, 72.6%, were at plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, NAICS 238220; share calculated).

BLS projects employment of heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers (SOC 49-9021) to grow 10.9% from 2025 to 2035, against 3.5% for all occupations, with about 40,600 openings a year (BLS Employment Projections, 2025–35).

For what drives that projection, and whether the trade is short of workers, see the HVAC technician job outlook.

For how to enter the field, see the HVAC installer career guide.

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid HVAC installer listing on HVACHires at the time shown, and refreshed every six hours.

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all HVAC installer jobs, so read them as a picture of current hiring, not of total employment.

Advertised pay is the midpoint of the range an employer posts, or its single figure, and hourly and annual postings are never converted into each other.

The headline is the employer median: each employer’s own median, then the median across employers, so a contractor or franchise network posting hundreds of openings counts once.

A pay figure needs at least 30 listings from 10 employers and is withheld when one employer posted more than half of them.

Federal figures come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (OEWS May 2025 and Employment Projections 2025–35) and are quoted as published, with the year in each sentence.

OEWS wages cover wage-and-salary workers only and leave out overtime and the self-employed.