What the work actually pays.
A salary guide for each of the 20 commercial trades we recruit in, covering 56 roles. Each one carries the pay band for every role in the trade and says where the figure comes from, so you can tell our own bands from federal wage data before you use either in an offer.
The range and its source are on this page with no form. The guide itself is the version you can hand to an owner, and that one asks for an email.
How to use these
Read the range here first, then open the guide for the trade you are hiring in. The range on each card spans every banded role in that trade, so it is wide on purpose — a helper and a service manager are both inside it. The trade's hiring kit breaks the same figures out role by role, which is the level you should be setting an offer against.
Every range is labelled with where it came from. My Trade Talent band means our own placements. BLS means federal wage data, shown as the 10th to 90th percentile and not adjusted for experience or region. We never average the two together.
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HVAC & Mechanical
$48k – $140k across 5 roles
My Trade Talent band
Median 17 days to hire, from 34 of our own searches
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Commercial Construction
$65k – $160k across 4 roles
My Trade Talent band
Median 14 days to hire, from 13 of our own searches
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Commercial Electrical
$58k – $155k across 4 roles
My Trade Talent band
Median 30 days to hire, from 11 of our own searches
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Commercial Roofing
$55k – $135k across 3 roles
My Trade Talent band
Median 21 days to hire, from 9 of our own searches
Before you put a number in an offer
- Salary calculator The base-pay band for one role by experience and region, with its source on the result.
- Offer calculator Start from the band and add your overtime, truck, per diem and benefits to see the total.
- Cost of vacancy What the open seat is costing you a day while you hold out for a lower number.
- Hiring Index How long our searches actually take by trade and market, with the sample size beside every figure.
Questions employers ask
Where do the pay figures come from?
Two places, and every range says which. Our own bands come from the searches we have run and the offers that were accepted. The rest are federal figures from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, shown as the 10th to 90th percentile with the national median beside them. A federal figure is not adjusted for experience or region, and we label it rather than blending it into a band of ours.
How often are the guides updated?
The pay bands on this page are read from the same data as the salary calculator and every role page, so they change the moment that data does. The downloadable guides are rebuilt on the same figures, which is why there is no separate copy to go stale.
Should I pay the middle of the band?
Not by default. The band covers a range of experience, credentials and market, and the middle of it describes nobody in particular. Start from the role and the market, use the offer calculator to add your overtime, truck, per diem and benefits, and compare the total rather than the base.
Why is a range so wide for some trades?
Because the trade covers very different seats. A range that runs from a helper to a service manager is wide for a real reason. Open the trade's hiring kit and the bands are shown role by role, which is the level you should actually be hiring against.
