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In March 2024, Intel confirmed $8.5 billion in CHIPS Act funding, bringing its total investment at its Chandler campus to $34.5 billion. Amkor Technology had alrea...

Technicians on hospital facilities teams are retiring faster than replacements can be hired, and the job itself isn’t simple to backfill. Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems in medical buildings operate under strict rules for air pressure, filtration, and infection control that residential and commercial buildings typically don’t require.

A hospit...

Not every graduate walks straight from graduation into a job. The timeline looks different for everyone, and that’s normal. But once you land that first position, the 90 days that follow are the most consequential stretch of your trades career. 

This is when employers form their first real impression of you, when habits take root, and when the professional reputation y...

Updated: 07/29/2026
HVAC technicians made an annual mean salary in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ of $62,210 in 2025. This comes out to about $29.91 an hour. Wages for HVAC technicians, however, varied across industries and locations, with some earning less than average and others more.1*
See the full range of earnings for HVAC technicians and reasons ...

About 1 in 3 trade apprentices drop out before finishing their first year. Not their first decade. Not after burning out at forty. Year one.

That number isn’t a refl...