Privacy

Last updated 12 November 2026.

This page explains what HVAC Tech Pay keeps when you use the site and add your pay. HVAC Tech Pay is an independent site run from the United States. You can reach the person who runs it at the address at the bottom of this page.

What we ask for

When you add your pay, we store what you type into the form: the company, your job title, your years in the trade, your hourly rate, how you are paid, any extras you reported, and whether you get on-call pay or a take-home truck.

We do not ask for your name, email, phone number or address, and the site has no accounts.

What we keep alongside your entry

• The date, not the time. We store the day your entry was added.
• A scrambled unlock code. Your browser gets one cookie holding a random code, so the site remembers that you have added your pay. We store a scrambled copy of that code with your entry. It does not say who you are.
• A scrambled network code. To stop one person flooding the site, we mix your network address with a random value and store only the scrambled result. The random value is replaced on the next day that anyone submits, and after that the stored code can't be traced back to an address. We never store the network address itself.

What other visitors can see

• Only visitors who have added their own pay can see pay reported by techs.
• Entries for a company appear only once at least 3 techs have reported for that company. Until then they are counted and nothing else is shown.
• Your years in the trade are shown as a range, such as 6 to 10, not the exact number.
• If you type a company we don't list, or a rate far outside the usual range, your entry is held for review before it can appear.

Even with these limits, someone at a small company who knows the staff well might guess who an entry belongs to. If that worries you, wait until the company shows more reports before adding yours.

Cookies and tracking

The site sets one cookie, described above. It lasts for one year, or until you clear it from your browser. If you clear it, tech-reported pay locks again until you add another entry. The site has no advertising cookies and no analytics that follow you across sites.

Who helps run the site

The site and its database are hosted on Cloudflare. To deliver pages and block abuse, Cloudflare handles network traffic, including network addresses, under its own privacy policy.

We have turned off our own per-visit logging, so we keep no record of individual visits. Cloudflare shows us overall traffic figures, such as the number of visits by country. If the site hits a fault, we keep the error message so we can fix it.

How long entries are kept

Entries stay on the site until they are removed, because pay history is part of what makes the site useful. You can ask for yours to be taken down at any time, as described below.

Selling and sharing

We do not sell personal information, and we do not collect any that could identify you. We may publish or share combined figures, such as the middle hourly rate for a job title, that do not point to any one person.

Legal requests

If a court or agency lawfully requires us to hand over information, we can only provide what this page describes. We hold no names, email addresses, phone numbers or network addresses for people who add their pay.

Age

The site is for adults who work in the trade. It is not meant for anyone under 18, and we do not knowingly collect information from children.

Removing or correcting an entry

Because entries carry no name, we can't look yours up by who you are. To have one removed, write to us with the company, job title, hourly rate and the date you added it, and we will take the matching entry down.

Employers who believe a posted pay range is wrong or out of date can write to us with a link to the current ad.

Changes to this page

If the way the site handles information changes, this page will be updated before the change takes effect, and the date at the top will show the latest version.

Contact

Email support@hvactechpay.com.