QUINCY, Mass. - eTradeWire -- Employers are advertising HVAC pay well above what government wage data suggests, according to new listing data from findHVACJobs.com, an independent job board dedicated to the HVAC trade.

The analysis covers 5,906 unique HVAC job listings from 1,837 employers nationwide, collected daily between October 22 and November 14, 2026. Among the 4,453 listings that disclose pay:

- 18.8% advertise $100,000 a year or more at the midpoint of the posted range, nearly one listing in five.

- The median advertised technician wage is $78,000 a year, about 28% above the most recent BLS median of $61,010 for HVAC mechanics and installers (May 2025).

- Kentucky and Washington tie for the highest median advertised pay at $95,000, among states with 25 or more pay-disclosed listings, ahead of California and Idaho at $88,400.

- Apprentices are offered a median of $44,512 a year, about $21.40 per hour, while foreman roles advertise a median of $100,000.

The gap between advertised pay and published wage statistics points to a labor market moving faster than official data. BLS wage figures describe what the current workforce earns. Job postings show what employers are offering right now to attract new hires.

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"Every week we see employers bidding up pay for licensed techs, and that isn't showing up in the official numbers yet. A tech comparing offers against a two-year-old government median is negotiating with stale information," said Brett Carriere, founder of findHVACJobs.com.

Methodology: findHVACJobs.com collects active HVAC listings daily from employers and job feeds, deduplicates them, and records the advertised pay range. Figures above use the midpoint of each posted range among listings that disclose pay. Advertised pay is an offer signal, not a measure of earned wages, and postings skew toward experienced and hard-to-fill roles. State rankings exclude states with fewer than 25 pay-disclosed listings. Ongoing advertised-pay data is published weekly at https://www.findhvacjobs.com/weekly-hvac-salary-report

About findHVACJobs.com

findHVACJobs.com is an independent, HVAC-only job board based in Quincy, Massachusetts. It connects HVAC technicians, installers, and apprentices with employers nationwide, and publishes weekly advertised-pay data drawn from its own listings. findHVACJobs.com is not affiliated with any other similarly named job sites.