The Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook projects employment from 2025 to 2035. Heating, air conditioning and refrigeration mechanics and installers: up 11 percent. Electricians: up 9 percent. Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters: up 7 percent. Roofers: up 5 percent. All occupations combined: up 3 percent.
- HVAC technicians: up 11 percent, about 40,600 openings a year (440,900 jobs in 2025)
- Electricians: up 9 percent, about 72,700 openings a year (821,000 jobs in 2025)
- Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters: up 7 percent, about 42,000 openings a year
- Roofers: up 5 percent, about 12,000 openings a year
- All occupations: up 3 percent
These are national projections for workers in each occupation, not counts of companies, and the openings include people who leave the trade or retire. The direction is the same in every trade: more work than the economy average, and a labor market that stays tight.
Growth in the trade does not book a calendar. What does is how many of the calls that reach a shop end with a technician on the schedule. A tight labor market makes that number matter more, because every tech-hour is spoken for and the call that nobody answered is the job that went to the shop that did.
What ProxMedia does about it: the phone answered and booked while the crew is on jobs, for HVAC, plumbing and roofing companies.
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2025 to 2035 projections for HVAC mechanics and installers, electricians, plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters (pages modified August 27, 2026) and roofers (September 14, 2026).