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HVAC technician salary in Port St. Lucie, FL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

HVAC technicians in the Port St. Lucie, FL area earn a median of $57,210 a year, or $27.50 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $78,320. Across all of Florida, the median is $56,670, so Port St. Lucie pays 1% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$57,210
Bottom 10% under$37,440Top 10% over$78,320
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$18.00/hr
Jobs in this area
830
After cost of living
$57,080
Median hourly pay
$27.50/hr
vs U.S. median
−6%
vs Florida median
+1%
Mean (average) pay
$57,080 a year · $27.44 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 38940, Port St. Lucie, FL). Excludes self-employed HVAC technicians. Cost of living: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024. *Starting pay is estimated from the 10th percentile; BLS does not report pay by license level.

Pay by percentile

What HVAC technicians in Port St. Lucie, FL earn at each point of the pay range, May 2025: 10% earn less than the 10th percentile, half earn less than the median, and 10% earn more than the 90th.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$18.00$37,440
25th percentile$22.76$47,340
Median (50th)$27.50$57,210
75th percentile$30.98$64,430
90th percentile$37.65$78,320

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.

How Port St. Lucie, FL compares

  • Port St. Lucie ranks 8th of 22 Florida metro areas for HVAC technician pay.
  • HVAC technicians are more concentrated in the Port St. Lucie area than nationally: 4.9 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.8 times the U.S. share.

Other Florida metro areas

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Questions

Do HVAC technicians make more in Port St. Lucie or Jacksonville?
Jacksonville pays more: the median is $57,210 in Port St. Lucie and $58,590 in Jacksonville, a 2% difference.

About this data

Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 49-9021 (Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers), area code 38940 (Port St. Lucie, FL). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed HVAC technicians and business owners aren't included. The cost-of-living figure divides the median by the Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parity for 2024 (100.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures