Metro fact page
HVAC contractors in Salem, OR
The Salem, OR metro area has 46 HVAC contractors, or 1.05 per 10,000 residents.
What HVAC work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national HVAC page. Oregon publishes no business-level licence source for HVAC, so this page shows no licensed share; the Oregon page says what it does publish.
The facts
- HVAC contractors in this metro
- 46
- Per 10,000 residents
- 1.05 per 10,000
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 3
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 0
- Licensed share
- Not published for this metroThere is no license source for this trade in Oregon. No HVAC record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a missing file.
- Employment and pay for this trade
- 350 employed, $65,050 median annual wageOccupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $31.27. SOC 49-9021 pools heating and air conditioning work with commercial refrigeration, so this employment figure and this wage cover both together.
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 45 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 1 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 436,546, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 OEWS, published May 15, 2026, SOC 49-9021.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about HVAC in Salem
By record count, HVAC is the ninth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Salem, behind plumbing and ahead of pest control. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Salem.
Per resident, Salem carries far fewer HVAC records than Oregon as a whole.
The independent share of Salem's HVAC records is close to the Oregon figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.
Oregon publishes no business-level licence source for HVAC that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Salem is shown as not published rather than as zero, and no HVAC record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a file that does not exist.
No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for HVAC in Salem, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.
The occupational series the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes for this trade counts 350 workers across Salem, and this site publishes 46 HVAC records here. The two count different things, one an occupation across every employer and the other the businesses on this site, so they stand side by side rather than one against the other.
No Salem HVAC record is classified as a franchise brand or a corporate-owned location, so the chain split here is independent records and records still in review.
Part of Salem's HVAC records are still waiting on chain review, which is what a name that meets the chain threshold and has not been classified yet is called. While that is true the franchise-to-corporate ratio here is incomplete and is not published as a ratio, and none of those records is described as independent.
More HVAC records first appeared in Salem over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this trade and metro grew. A record appears when the source learns of a business, which is a different event from a business opening.
No city inside Salem differs from the metro enough on HVAC to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.
Among the 4 Oregon metro areas this site publishes a HVAC page for, Salem is 3rd of 4 by records per resident, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a HVAC page for rather than every metro area in Oregon.
Ordered by HVAC records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a HVAC page for, the hubs either side of Salem are El Paso above it and Salinas below it.
HVAC contractors, A to Z
46 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- A Pederson's PlumbingDallas, ORListed in open place data
- Abb StovesSalem, ORListed in open place data
- Abe'sKeizer, ORListed in open place data
- ACE All Climate EngineeringSalem, ORListed in open place data
- Advanced Heating & Air Conditioning Service & MaintenanceSalem, ORListed in open place data
- Air Control SystemsMonmouth, ORListed in open place data
- Air MastersSalem, ORListed in open place data
- Air MastersSalem, ORListed in open place data
- Aire ServiceSalem, ORListed in open place data
- Aire Service of The WillametteSalem, ORListed in open place data
- Al's DrywallSalem, ORListed in open place data
- Benson PlumbingKeizer, ORListed in open place data
- C & S Heating & CoolingDallas, ORListed in open place data
- CHS ServicesSalem, ORListed in open place data
- CHS ServicesSalem, ORListed in open place data
- Cortez PlumbingSalem, ORListed in open place data
- D & R Heating & AirAurora, ORListed in open place data
- Dallas Heating & SheetmetalRickreall, ORListed in open place data
- Elements HVACSalem, ORListed in open place data
- Fargo RefrigerationWoodburn, ORListed in open place data
- Gagle's HeatingSalem, ORListed in open place data
- Garcia PlumbingIndependence, ORListed in open place data
- GenscoSalem, ORListed in open place data
- Home ComfortWoodburn, ORListed in open place data
- James Heating & Air ConditioningSalem, ORListed in open place data
- Jefferson HeatingSalem, ORListed in open place data
- Jim Smith's Heating & Sheet MetalSalem, ORListed in open place data
- Kentec Heating ContractorWoodburn, ORListed in open place data
- Lyons Heating & CoolingLyons, ORListed in open place data
- Northwest Heating & Air Conditioning ServiceSalem, ORListed in open place data
- Oregon Cascade Plumbing & HeatingSalem, ORListed in open place data
- Oregon DuctsSalem, ORListed in open place data
- Robert Lloyd Sheet MetalStayton, ORListed in open place data
- Robert Lloyd Sheet MetalIndependence, ORListed in open place data
- Source Refrigeration & HvacSalem, ORListed in open place data
- Stayton Heating & CoolingStayton, ORListed in open place data
- Sunset Heating & CoolingDallas, ORListed in open place data
- TG Skyles Heating and CoolingKeizer, ORListed in open place data
- Total ComfortAurora, ORListed in open place data
- Valley View HVACSalem, ORListed in open place data
- West valley mechanicalSheridan, ORListed in open place data
- WhirlWind Heating & CoolingWoodburn, ORListed in open place data
- WilgusSilverton, ORListed in open place data
- Wolfers Heating & Air ConditioningSalem, ORListed in open place data
- Woodward HeatingAumsville, ORListed in open place data
- Woodward HeatingSalem, ORListed in open place data
Other trades in Salem
- Cleaning 63
- Electrical 65
- Flooring 89
- Landscaping 132
- Painting 89
- Pest control 18
- Plumbing 59
- Roofing 79
- Other home service 951
- All trades in Salem
Pool has fewer than 8 publishable records in Salem, so it is answered on the overview above instead.