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15.05Environmental Control Technologies/Technicians

Career paths in this area

HVAC Technician SOC 49-9021
HVAC technicians install and repair heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration — and in Florida that is year-round work on the systems that make buildings usable. ⚠ It pays the best median of the clock-hour trades on this site ($61,010) and is the only one federal projections call much faster than average.
⚠⚠ Heating/Air Conditioning/Refrigeration Engineering Technology — and the evidence says this is the programme's real home: 45 Florida public institutions and 891 credentials in 2023, against 31 and 111 under 47.02. Florida's own frameworks are filed here.
Plumber, Pipefitter and Sprinkler Fitter SOC 47-2152
⚠⚠ A paid-apprenticeship trade: BLS describes 4 to 5 years of apprenticeship with about 2,000 paid hours a year, on a high school diploma. ⚠⚠⚠ Florida pays well below the national figure ($52,910 median against $63,800), and the gap widens to $34,810 at the 90th percentile. Florida's journeyman licence is issued locally but recognised in every county and city, and the contractor licence is the step that changes income.
⚠ HVAC/R Engineering Technology — where Florida files HVAC; shares piping skills and the same journeyman reciprocity provision as plumbing (s. 489.1455).

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