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HVAC technician salary in Brunswick, GA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

HVAC technicians in the Brunswick–St. Simons, GA area earn a median of $49,920 a year, or $24.00 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $75,810 a year. That's 11% less than the Georgia median of $56,390.

Median yearly pay$49,920
Bottom 10% under$32,600Top 10% over$75,810
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$15.67/hr
Jobs in this area
140
After cost of living
$56,920
Median hourly pay
$24.00/hr
vs U.S. median
−18%
vs Georgia median
−11%
Mean (average) pay
$52,760 a year · $25.37 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 15260, Brunswick-St. Simons, GA). 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 Brunswick, GA 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$15.67$32,600
25th percentile$19.56$40,670
Median (50th)$24.00$49,920
75th percentile$29.99$62,380
90th percentile$36.45$75,810

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

How Brunswick, GA compares

  • Brunswick ranks 8th of 15 Georgia metro areas for HVAC technician pay.
  • HVAC technicians are more concentrated in the Brunswick area than nationally: 2.9 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.1 times the U.S. share.

Other Georgia metro areas

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Questions

Do HVAC technicians make more in Brunswick or Atlanta?
Atlanta pays more: the median is $49,920 in Brunswick and $58,970 in Atlanta, a 15% 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 15260 (Brunswick-St. Simons, GA). 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 (87.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures