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Highest paying careers in hvac/r industry?
Hi I currently work in commercial service, and was just wondering if anyone knew of some of the highest paying careers in the industry? I know unions pay well.
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I work in supermarket refrigeration and have for many years.
We have a serious shortage of qualified technicians.
It is becoming supply and Demand.
$$ discussion is not allowed but I think, on the technician side, this will be the most lucrative in the future.
The ice cream must remain frozen!!
Jim
Tucson, Az
Keeping the Ice Cream Frozen!
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I think the highest paying may be the controls - the ones who merge the computers with the controls. As for the supermarket route, I am not so sure if the high pay is from a high hourly rate, or the fact that they want to work you to death after hours.
I wanted to do market refrigeration since I left trade school. I was even hired at Source, but then someone called me before my start date and offered me seven dollars more than Source to go into restaurant refrigeration. $ is $ and Source would not touch that offer.
10 years later, I still get an occasional call from the Source recruiter and others, and they won't come near to what I am making now and the benefits I get.
I don't do restaurants any more, but a small busy commercial firm picked me up to handle the refrigeration things that come up and to help the other guys with refrigeration issues.
A friend of mine from trade school got on with a couple of market shops for a while. After seeing what they put him through in the sheer number of hours worked, and what it did to his body and family and finanaces - No thank you - I will stay where I am at. Some jobs just aren't worth that big money.
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Originally Posted by
tuba
I think the highest paying may be the controls - the ones who merge the computers with the controls. As for the supermarket route, I am not so sure if the high pay is from a high hourly rate, or the fact that they want to work you to death after hours.
I wanted to do market refrigeration since I left trade school. I was even hired at Source, but then someone called me before my start date and offered me seven dollars more than Source to go into restaurant refrigeration. $ is $ and Source would not touch that offer.
10 years later, I still get an occasional call from the Source recruiter and others, and they won't come near to what I am making now and the benefits I get.
I don't do restaurants any more, but a small busy commercial firm picked me up to handle the refrigeration things that come up and to help the other guys with refrigeration issues.
A friend of mine from trade school got on with a couple of market shops for a while. After seeing what they put him through in the sheer number of hours worked, and what it did to his body and family and finanaces - No thank you - I will stay where I am at. Some jobs just aren't worth that big money.
Valid points. I was just speaking of what is happening to the hourly rate.
The hours can be tough in the summer but a qualified supermarket tech will never be out of work.
Jim
Tucson, Az
Keeping the Ice Cream Frozen!
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I fully agree agree with you market-tech, and that was my reasoning to go in to markets after trade school. But you would think that with the shortage of market techs all over that the hourly rate would climb for all market refrigeration, around here it seems to be the opposite. Personally, I think the bigger and more specialized the equipment, the more the pay should be.
It seems like there is a downward pressure on our hourly wages across the board, and I wonder if it has to do with all the 'middleman' companies promising more and more for less $$ to the end customer.
When the recruiters call me, I chat with them for a bit, and it always turns out the same where I ask them why a seasoned tech with 8-10 years experience take such a pay cut to join your company...
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the biggest pay is the one selling the big system, then the one that fixing that big system.
Have tools and gauges, will travel.
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Residential Service company Owner/Operator. 4 billable hours on a good day. $75 hour= $300. Gas, lunch, insurance, vehicle payments= $100. Parts < $50 x 3 = markup. This is my dream.
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Originally Posted by
WMG
Residential Service company Owner/Operator. 4 billable hours on a good day. $75 hour= $300. Gas, lunch, insurance, vehicle payments= $100. Parts < $50 x 3 = markup. This is my dream.
This is sound way too good~~~
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Originally Posted by
jcrew4242
This is sound way too good~~~
But only once I never have to call my boss with literally 25 years experience for a hand. And get the job done 100% competently and correctly every time. Think of all the big companies who keep there employees like beat down slaves? Do they really care if the vacuum is down to 900 microns? Or if the condenser coil is filled with dirt? Or if the drain line drips thru the Sheetrock? I have an angle.
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Large tonnage guys name their price. If you can rebuild and service large chillers you can make a very good living. That's how I see it anyway. FITZ...
Chaos equals cash$$$
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We keep it because we are willing to fight for it.
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Originally Posted by
viceman
chillers or controls.
Chiller or Controls SALES.
These guys seem to do a little better, then the worker bees.
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Originally Posted by
ascj
Chiller or Controls SALES.
These guys seem to do a little better, then the worker bees.
Very true.
Chaos equals cash$$$
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I have to agree with previous comments, chillers and controls seem to pay the best. Industrial refrigeration can pay very well too.
Longterm I think chillers will have better job security, controls will be flooded with people in 10 years. (Seems like everyone I talk to wants the cushy controls jobs...)
You cannot cheat an honest man. But that doesn't stop people trying!
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Originally Posted by
viceman
chillers or controls.
x2
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Porn can pay well for some.
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Originally Posted by
Lightning_Boy
I have to agree with previous comments, chillers and controls seem to pay the best. Industrial refrigeration can pay very well too.
Longterm I think chillers will have better job security, controls will be flooded with people in 10 years. (Seems like everyone I talk to wants the cushy controls jobs...)
Everyone I run into also wants to be a controls tech it seems. My take on it is they DO think it is a cush job and they really have no idea. They won't last. A true controls tech/HVAC system tech, a guy who can develop logic with the experience and knowledge of how a system will act and react will always be in demand. Some of the best control techs I have ever worked with, have had some other type of HVAC work experience like service or military.
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Someones gotta keep those big fake boobs from sweating
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Originally Posted by
marter
Someones gotta keep those big fake boobs from sweating
Lol... And I need to put in an application.
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Originally Posted by
Lightning_Boy
I have to agree with previous comments, chillers and controls seem to pay the best. Industrial refrigeration can pay very well too.
Longterm I think chillers will have better job security, controls will be flooded with people in 10 years. (Seems like everyone I talk to wants the cushy controls jobs...)
When I got out of high school they said the same about the IT field in general and me going to college for that degree would be a waste of time because I wouldn't be able to find a job. Now 15 years later it's still the fastest growing and largest market in every industry, every corner of the globe! Needless to say I'm in school now for that degree. Automation industry filling up and being flooded? I think not. To me that's like saying you could have too much money. Jump on the ban wagon now and you won't feel left in the dust in the next 10 years when everything in the hvac industry is automated...
The only decision in life is to decide what to do with the time given to you