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Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers

SOC 49-9021 · 2024-2034

Install or repair heating, central air conditioning, HVAC, or refrigeration systems, including oil burners, hot-air furnaces, and heating stoves.

How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.

The job this trains for

Typical pay in California
$74,612per year
Projected openings
37,750
Projected change
+12.8%
Usually needs
Postsecondary non-degree award

Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Rapid Growth

The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.

Skills this work uses most

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.

  1. Operations Monitoring
  2. Critical Thinking
  3. Troubleshooting
  4. Installation
  5. Repairing
  6. Reading Comprehension

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$86,2442,320
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)$82,403230
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$80,2391,070
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$78,8312,490
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$76,909310
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$74,1263,090
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)$73,510630
Napa MSA (Napa County)$72,596100
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$69,3194,110
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)$68,118520
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)$67,400540
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)$66,557160
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$66,5473,290
Merced MSA (Merced County)$66,331210
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)$66,331540
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$65,5906,390
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)$65,387910
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$65,2536,130
Salinas MSA (Monterey County)$64,935240
Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County)$64,062140
Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties)$63,281180
Redding MSA (Shasta County)$63,240200
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)$62,4601,040
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$62,1521,450
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)$61,987200
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)$61,731280
Chico MSA (Butte County)$60,981130
El Centro MSA (Imperial County)$60,129120
Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties)$59,574150
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)$51,369500
San Rafael MD (Marin County)Not reported220

Similar work

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.

The job this trains forTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openingsProjected change
Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators$92,7187,340+6.6%
Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$74,80348,620+8.6%
Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door$103,0953,850+7%
Home Appliance Repairers$60,1342,340-6.1%
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General$58,612151,500+7.3%
Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other$52,67927,340+2.1%

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