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HVAC technician salary in Grants Pass, OR

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

HVAC technicians in the Grants Pass, OR area earn a median of $48,190 a year, or $23.17 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $78,020. That's 23% less than the Oregon median of $62,940.

Median yearly pay$48,190
Bottom 10% under$38,420Top 10% over$78,020
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$18.47/hr
Jobs in this area
80
After cost of living
$49,290
Median hourly pay
$23.17/hr
vs U.S. median
−21%
vs Oregon median
−23%
Mean (average) pay
$54,910 a year · $26.40 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 24420, Grants Pass, OR). 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 Grants Pass, OR 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$18.47$38,420
25th percentile$22.82$47,460
Median (50th)$23.17$48,190
75th percentile$28.82$59,950
90th percentile$37.51$78,020

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

How Grants Pass, OR compares

  • Grants Pass has the lowest HVAC technician median of the 8 Oregon metro areas with published pay.
  • HVAC technicians hold about the same share of jobs in the Grants Pass area as nationally: 2.5 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other Oregon metro areas

Other trades in Grants Pass, OR

Questions

Do HVAC technicians make more in Grants Pass or Portland?
Portland pays more: the median is $48,190 in Grants Pass and $65,260 in Portland, a 26% 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 24420 (Grants Pass, OR). 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 (97.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures