HVAC and plumbing contractors hiring HVAC technicians on HVACHires post a median of $30.00 an hour, across 27 employers and 283 listings that state hourly pay (October 6, 2026).
The middle half of those listings offer $27.50 to $40.00.
This is advertised pay, not earnings: for what HVAC technicians take home, see our hvac technician salary guide.
Listings per pay band.
The highlighted band holds the employer median of $30.00/h.
Employer median of posted hourly pay for each role with at least 30 listings and 10 employers stating it.
Listings that post an annual salary instead show an employer median of $100,000 a year (34 employers, 125 listings; middle half $72,500–$100,000).
Posted pay is what employers advertise to attract applicants.
It often runs above government wage estimates for the same occupation, because listings skew toward open, competitive roles and the ranges often include the top of a pay band.
Our hvac technician salary guide blends listing data with Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data to estimate what people in the role actually earn.
Use this page for what the market is offering today, and the guide for typical earnings.
All figures come from the 4,202 active job listings on HVACHires on October 6, 2026, posted by 153 employers.
We removed 128 exact duplicates (same employer, title, city, state and pay range) first.
Posted pay is the midpoint of the range an employer advertises, or its single figure.
Hourly and annual postings are analyzed separately and never converted into each other.
Values below $5 or above $500 an hour, or below $15,000 or above $1,000,000 a year, are treated as data errors and dropped.
Employer medianis our headline: we take each employer’s own median, then the median across employers, so a company posting hundreds of openings counts once.
The plain listing median is shown alongside.
We suppress any figure built on fewer than 30 listings or 10 employers, and flag anything under 100 listings as a small sample.
Pay medians use only listings whose pay we can read as a number from a structured field; listings that give pay only in the description count toward the “states pay” shares but not toward medians.
HVAC technician, HVAC service technician and commercial HVAC technician listings are combined.
The largest single employer accounts for 29.3% of HVAC technicians listings with hourly pay, which is why the employer median is the headline figure.
These are advertised rates, not earnings.
They exclude bonuses, commissions and incentive pay unless an employer folds them into the posted range, and listings on a job board are not a random sample of all HVAC and plumbing jobs.
Figures are frozen for the Q4 2026 release and refreshed quarterly; earlier releases are not revised.
Corrected October 6, 2026: A listing now also counts as stating pay when its description gives a dollar wage, salary or pay range.
The first version of this release (October 6, 2026) counted structured pay fields only and reported that 30% of listings stated pay, an undercount, because many employers put the range only in the description text.
Pay medians were and remain based on structured pay fields only.
HVACHires, “HVAC Technician Pay in Job Listings: Q4 2026 Data,” Q4 2026 data release, listings snapshot of October 6, 2026. https://www.hvachires.com/research/data/hvac-technician-pay/
More first-party data: HVAC Installer Pay in Job Listings · Plumber Pay in Job Listings · HVAC & Plumbing Pay Transparency.
All research: HVACHires Research.
