HVAC Technician
Installs and services heating, ventilation and cooling equipment. Diagnosis is the skill; parts swapping is the commodity.
- Pay band (est.)
- $60k–$91k
- Time to competence
- 3 years
- Licence
- Required
- Setting
- site
- Leverage
- medium
- Place constraint
- low
- Physical demand
- 72/100
- Hours burden
- 58/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play3th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge1th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage49th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand83th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay24th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body27th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy24th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit77th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility54th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill91th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load50th
Closeness to the families you marked as meaningful. Your mapping, not ours.
- Downside tolerance48th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Attics and roofs in extreme weather; seasonal hour swings.
Examine this against your weights
The percentiles above use the default weights. Set your own on the ranking and this vocation moves with them.
- Place constraint is low. Where you live is analysed at locationistics.com.
- Hours burden is 58/100 and people intensity 45/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: BLS OEWS May 2024, Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers (49-9021): median $59,810, 90th percentile $91,020. Outlook from BLS 2025-35 projections, +10.9%. Other scores editorial. All figures are estimates for comparison.