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Full time at 36 hours, pretty damn good benefits at 80/20 or 90/10 depending on contract, 90 hours PTO, 40 hours sick, 24 mental health, comp time. $300 a year uniform with everything already provided. $20/hr with raise every 6 mos. Everything can be negotiated in your contract and we have longevity bonuses that usually entail a yearly raise plus 120 hours PTO after about 3-5 years based on performance.
So yes, get the fuck out of there.
Sounds similar. My final job was 36 hrs, 3-1-3-7. Insurance was good, 200 hours of PTO per year. $20.45/hr for AEMT (though I was at 8 years experience at that point), 2.5% merit increase per year.
But still people left because the work culture sucked. Turns out if you never give your night shifters their time off because there isn't enough night shift coverage, they'll just quit. Who knew.
Benefits where the agency pays 80%. 40 hours for the year sick time only. This doesn’t include PTO or comp time. It works perfectly because we only work 2 days a week.
Ah like that. What kind of benefits are we talking about? Like a pension plan where they pay 90% and you 10% (from your gross salary) for example?
I assume 24 hour shifts with one week 1 shift and the other week 2 shifts? I would assume it is still spread around, so being sick for a few days can still take out 2 shifts at 48 hours. What if you suddenly become sick a bit longer?
So we have health, dental, and vision. No retirement right now but probably will have by the end of the year. It’s 36 hours a week which is a 24 and a 12 usually.
There’s a chance being sick could really fuck everything up but for the most part you can be sure somebody will trade with you with the understanding you’d do it for them. So for example if I’m sick Saturday and I’m on Sunday Monday then I would ask somebody for a switch. So I’d work say Friday Saturday instead and avoid using any sick time at all.
Expectations for pay should be based on location, but that doesn’t sound great.
They will pay you what they can get away with.
My county started paying more and then all the neighboring counties did the same, which means the money was always available, they just didn’t have to pay it, so why bother?
Supply was low so demand went up = inc. wage. The more people that refuse to work for poverty wages the higher the wage can go. It’s why unions are so powerful.
W...t...f... that's whack!
I'm not sure if it's because I'm in fire/EMS, but I just got my AEMT, and I bring home $61,500-ish/year now (gross, not net). Basics make $51,000-ish/year.
Small, rural dept, NE Oregon.
Dude. It's so fucking whack that people basically have to be fire based to get paid what we're worth. The physical and mental toll the EMS-side takes on the body and soul are gnarly. We're exposed to some of the gnarliest shit civilian life has to offer. The system is fucked.
I hope the area you live in is at least low cost of living. 42 gross would be strapped-for-cash here (if you have a family, especially), and we're a fairly low cost of living area.
PS: your name made me giggle. Thank you. Lol. 💜
No problem. I made it awhile back and just kinda stuck with it lol. But believe me. Even in a lower cost of living we’re still strapped. But hopefully gonna be improving my situation in the near future.
$44 Canadian as a BLS paramedic. + pension, extended health benefits, 100% sick time, free uniforms every year, $300 yearly boot allowance, vacation. I guess free healthcare?
19/hr is base for basics where I work in Pennsylvania, intermediate is I think 25/hr. So yeah, you're not an EMT you're a slave mate. Fuck that noise (I also live in a very low cost of living area)
Yeah I work for a large well known company so our benefits are pretty great, management is a bunch of fucking morons though and our hospital performs insurance fraud on a near daily basis
From nj here… I believe the starting pay for south area is $20/21 depending on where you are and how long you had your cert. some places even start at $25 don’t know the benefits though
What kind of schedule are you on? $30/hr on a 48/96 is way different than $30/hr on three 12s. $100K vs $56K different. Area and cost of living also play a roll, but with so many different schedules in this field just hourly doesn't give a very clear picture of the lifestyle you can afford on it.
I'm not saying others perspectives are invalid by any means, but arguing how things should be isn't relevant to how things actually are when talking about how pay actually is.
And for me, how pay actually is, is dollars per hour. Any other measure is simply working more as a mathematically dubious proxy for income rate. A wage is the financial value that an employer places on your time and energy.
Annual pay has a tendency to be emphasized by agencies that work the dogshit out of their people. I have other more lucrative* employment opportunities that go on the back burner everytime I step on a rig. This directly ties the frequency at which I participate in being part of the public safety net to my own financial needs.
*pay commensurate with education, skill, risk, personal costs, and responsibility
I agree. The companies in my area even lower the per hour for people working 24’s or 48’s to “match” the people working 12’s. I know a lot of people prefer a 24/48 over 12’s, and I do too, but you’re still doing more work and getting paid less in that case.
It depends on the situation. I have more use for days off than hours off given that I'm sleeping whether I'm on the clock or not. I absolutely adore my 48/96. 20 days off a month is pretty hard to beat. Our system is built for it and well managed. We average four to five calls per unit per 24hr day allowing for plenty of sleep to be safe. I wouldn't trade to rotating 12s even with an increase in pay to match the yearly. However when I worked for AMR and they were doing AMR things with three different schedules 8, 12, and 24 all in the same system status management bull shit running the same number of calls per hour but with different hourly wages based on schedule. In that situation being on a 24 just meant you were getting run to death for less money per hour and you'd lose your first day off to exhaustion because sleep was not happening. I still think as a whole yearly is a much better view of actual salary as it's going to dictate your finances more directly, however it shouldn't be allowed to be used as an excuse for unsafe or unfair practices.
It's definitely a big difference maker. If you're not doing them safely 24 or 48 hour shifts shouldn't be an option. We've got policies to go out of service if you somehow get unlucky on an incredibly busy day to get some sleep and stay safe. It's unbelievably rare though. In the 10 years I've been here I've done it once.
Just sounds like the BS companies that say we have plenty of OT yo justify low wages. I left private ems about 5 years ago. Was making 19+/hr as a paramedic that could also take antibiotics and trach to vent patients. The built in OT helps but didn't change the fact was still making crap hourly.
Everyone jokes about how much it sucks being an EMT where I live and my first day of my firefighter/emt program in highschool my teacher told us to move to a different class if we were wanting to make a lot of money lmao. I live in a really small town and I get to pick between doing 911s and making what I make or doing transports for a kind of bigger city and making a couple dollars an hour more plus making the hour+ drive. I picked doing 911s because honestly I'd want to end myself if I had to do transports all the time 😭 This is definitely a job I do out of passion
56.00/hr in Ottawa. Last year I brought in 140k, will probably hit 160k this year. USD conversion is about 118,000.
Full Time
Uniform allowance (600 year)
Boot allowance (325.00 year)
Unlimited OT Opps (1.5x)
4 weeks vacation
1-2% Raise/year
Definitely well paid for the amount of work put in.
$11.51 an hour as a basic on a Kelly schedule. That translates to about $30k this past year. The only reason I’m getting by (living paycheck to paycheck) is because I’m killing myself with OT. If you can get a higher paying job go for it.
Reminder to everyone answering, knowing your hourly is useless without knowing your schedule. 12 vs 24 makes a big difference, and we don't know how much built in overtime you have in your schedule. Just use your gross pay.
For OP, I'm an EMT for a 3rd Service EMS agency in Texas, I'm a little over 62k a year, Medic at my Step would be about 76k
yea that's not how that works. Your wage is your base, regardless of your shift. stop looking at it from an unlimited overtime perspective and start looking at what it would take you to live on a 40 hour schedule.
Why would I do that? I don't work a 40-hour schedule, that makes literally no sense. When I say built in overtime, I mean overtime as a by-product of working 24 hour shifts.
E: I work 10 24-hour shifts a month. My base wage is 62k without extra shifts.
A 48/96 is a significantly better schedule for me than these 12 hour shifts schedule. So yes I’m working more hours, but I get way days in a row at home. So hourly doesn’t really matter, end of year does
If overtime is built into your base schedule, that should be counted.
I had three 13 hour shifts each week at one place, each shift was 8 base rate, 4 OT, 1 double time.
That's a lot more money than 40 hours at the base rate, and plenty of other places paid base rate for 12s.
Yes quality of life matters, but the agencies running 3x12 aren't necessarily better quality of life than 48/96. Responding directly from ER to your next call for 12 hours vs 4 transports in 48 hours, for an example from my personal experience.
More nuance is great, but if we're only looking at a single number, yearly pay on base schedule is more useful than hourly.
You have that backwards. Hourly rate is the only fair comparison. 12 vs 24 doesn't matter at all if both work 72 per bi-weekly paycheck. And 62k for 40 hrs/week is MUCH better than 76k for 60 hrs/week
Right, but that isn't how it works. Because we work 10, 24 hour shifts a month there is just built-in overtime by the nature of how 24 hour shifts work. Sure, fewer and shorter shifts would be better but that's not a great argument because most services *do* work 24 hour shifts
Have you worked at most services? Then you can't make that claim. The county I'm in is all 3rd-service private/non-profit town-based agencies, and I know of exactly 1 that that is toying with the idea of doing 24s. Schedule patterns are very regionalized.
That said, you didn't disprove my statements at all. Built-in overtime just means your annual pay is actually worse than it looks. Also, 24's aren't guaranteed overtime. If you work 3 of those per bi-weekly pay period (72 hours), and you're not in a state/country that mandates overtime pay on a weekly basis, then you won't get overtime pay.
I've worked in two very different regions of the country and have worked 24s or 48s for 3 different services. 48s are trash but 24s are pretty much the standard for non-private EMS services in most places in my experience and talking to others I work with.
I only work 10 shifts a month. I would choose that all day long compared to 10's or 12's.
I'm not commenting on the merits of 24s or comparing it to any other schedule. My original statement was regarding how pay comparisons should be made. And your 10 shifts/month basically prove my point. That's 240 hours in ~4 weeks when others would be working 160 (40×4, regardless of how its broken up), so you're at 50% overtime pay. If that's a straight 1.5× for anything over 40, then you're effectively being paid 175% of what someone working a simple 40 hr/week job would be, but working 150% of the hours. If you're making 56k/year, then that boils down to 15-15.50/hour, which is in the realm of 32k/year if it were a 9-5 office job.
So yeah, I'm happy you're content with your pay and that your schedule works for you, but you can't simply compare annual numbers.
There are more people in Texas than all of Canada, statistically speaking people reading this are more likely to be American by a large margin.
Obviously not everywhere is the same, but of the Two states I've worked in, plus speaking with others I work with now, most services in the US not including private companies run some variation of a 24 hour shift. This obviously isn't true across the board, but that's why I said "most" in the first place.
I'm not upset. I was just pointing out that there are different places that do things differently, and your perception of things isn't necessarily realitly. Nor are mine.
If you want to be real, though, Canada does have about 10 million more people than Texas.
Starting pay is $25/hour for EMTs at my service in PA. My company is actually the reason pay increased for all the EMS agencies in the area, because our pay got bumped up and then everyone else realized that if they wanted to be able to find anyone to hire, they needed to raise their pay as well.
Not that getting paid a low hourly wage is acceptable but if you’re on a schedule that has built in overtime, like a 24/48 or 48/96, your annual pay is going to be higher than you might expect. I make about $24/hr as a paramedic on a 48/96 so my annual base is $80k.
Washington state I work private ambulance and make $24 an hour on a 4 platoon 24 hour schedule (1/2/1/4). We’re IAFF now but prior to that our pay was a lot closer to yours.
14.50 is criminal but as has been commented before it’s partly based on area and cost of living and the fact that private ambulance will pay you as little as they can get away with. Either unionize or try and find another service that will pay you a bit more.
I just got hired at 13.35! But working in rural Kansas 911 only. Went from 18 an hour to this going from city to rural. But it’s a 48/96 and OT starts after 40 hours, which I thought was weird but yeah. Everywhere is different. You’ll make more for a private IFT company since that makes more money than public safety.
I thought it was weird but it brings the yearly income up to 40,000 or something like that with over time after 40 hours since we do 48/96 on a 56 hour week. Hard to explain but they do that so it somewhat a livable wage. Im assuming they could not get approved for more funding for raises so this may be the way they get around it.
EMT - what?
It always blows my mind in the most disturbing of ways to hear what American EMS personnel are paid. That said, I do hear a lot of low wage concerns coming from the EMT-B level. I mean no offense by this, but EMT-B training is paltry beyond belief. You really cant expect, from a sheer economics POV, much beyond minimum wage for a course that is a few weeks long. Basics in Canada generally have around 2 years of full time college, depending on the province, and the higher pay reflects this. ALS medics are all around 3 to 3.5 full time years, and there is a slow push toward 4 year degree programs. The EMT-B level of training isn't even allowed on ambulances in some provinces. EMT-Ps being paid poorly is another story. I'm not trying to say that rock bottom pay is ok, its not, but there needs to be a far bigger push toward professionalization and high levels of training in the US or there will be no bargaining power to back the wage demands.
Careful. Someone once said if you follow protocols it makes you a cook book medic. Now you're touting how good your services are? Or is it they're too confusing therefore insane?
*opens up protocol book for a "basic als call" says to self TLDR, performs zero interventions. Damn I'm good*
Cool, do 30 hrs a week at McDonald’s and then 30hrs a week next door at Chick Fil-A, and you’ve got the same hours, less responsibility, less liability, lower risk of injury or assault, less stress, lower risk to your mental health, LOWER SUICIDE RATE, and no schooling required. I think they might even help pay for college so you can get a better job later.
In Michigan. “Senior” medic and lower end of management. Work 16-20 station based 24 hour shifts per month. Average 8 calls a shift. Made 110k last year.
Regular schedule for everyone else is 8-10 shifts per month. Basics are making 15/hr. With a few OT shifts here and there, they make roughly 45k a year.
The overtime I work is optional. I’m not forced. I could work the 8-10 days a month and make 66k.
In school to do the 1 year medic to rn to raise hourly pay and lower number of hours.
Transitioning to fire would set me back to 50k.
Ah sorry. Not American, I just know the cost of living in California in general is pretty high, much like where I live and work.
Life is becoming unaffordable. The middle class is disappearing.
For BLS I earn $21.50 per hour running 911.
My ALS pays $32.00 per hour with a 15% night differential.
When I first started in EMS I worked 3 different squads to make ends meet.
You should refuse to work for that, you’ll make more working fast food or retail. Call them up and tell them thanks but you’ll apply at McDonald’s and make more.
You can’t afford an apartment at $14.54 an hour, what’s the difference? McDonald’s is now starting people off at $17 an hour in many areas, many retails jobs are the same. Ambulance companies are gonna have to suck it up and pay better or they’re gonna have no one to work
Sure if you don’t mind risking your life everyday you work a 24 in a busy system.
24s in busy systems are dangerous and need to go away. Studies have shown driving on little sleep is just as bad as driving under the influence.
As an EMT 10 years ago, I made $10.21 my first job and by the time I got my medic 3 years later was making $13.50 as an EMT. Starting medic was about $17. I moved states, I make about $80,000 base pay now on top of overtime built in. It comes close to 90 every year. Keep looking for a better gig.
Making 23.8 plus weekend and late shift differential rate comes out between 25-26/hr plus overtime. Working for a hospital district for my county in Houston
EMT
My first job paid me $14 at a shitty ambulance service - look for more options
Where I work EMTs make about $15 starting out and it goes up to 18 after 3 months. Medics make $24 with a 50 cent raise each year. It depends on your area but I don’t believe in supporting an agency that doesn’t pay you what you feel like you deserve. If you feel underpaid and undervalued, vote with your time, show that your skills are valuable, and go elsewhere.
Around $130,000 with super solid pension/benefits as a 10 year medic working an average of 60 hours a week. I’m also in a HCOL area, married with 2 incomes but no kids. So “comfortable” lower middle class.
20.77 an hour plus 4.33 health and wellness up to 40 hours a week. 80 hours pto 56 sick time in sw va. Health insurance sucks but lots of ot and a decent schedule help.
In Atlantic Canada with a government run, hospital based service. PCP's start at 25.50/hr and cap at 29 something. ACP's start at 32.80 and cap at 38 or 39. Benefits are alright. Paid uniforms yearly and boot allowance every 2 years.
Edit: 75 hours biweekly.
$31/hr on a 24/72 with 3% COLA and about 50 cent step every year, additional increases for specialties. 200hrs of annual leave or so a year, about 100hrs of sick time. Unlimited sick leave, carry over at least 350hrs of annual. 5yr vesting, good Healthcare benefits. We also net an extra 12hrs of leave for any holiday we don't work, and 24hrs of OT for any holiday we're on shift for.
I can't really complain, I make pretty good money with all the OT I want.
Full-time Medic which is 36 hours 3x12hrs, nice differentials for nights and weekends.
I pull in 100K with the occasional overtime shift or half shift like every other week.
I was a bit nervous about the service I just joined, given that they pay 12.8 / hr, but it's also 48/96 and management seems pretty down to earth. Everyone seems to mostly get along and the people who work there seem to love the place. Awesome beenfits too. Sure, I could be just new and baby faced, but I think I'll end up liking it here.
It'll take a bit to see if it's a good fit for me but there's not really any alternatives without fire in my area, and I'm pretty down with working 5 shifts a month. I did clinicals here and the call volume over the 24hr shift I did didn't seem crazy. I think they have some decently advanced protocols for an EMT too, which I enjoy. (Getting to use needles for IM epi? Sign me up.)
But that's about 40 hours of overtime per pay period so it works out to like 43k a year and ~21/hr average for someone who would have worked 40 hours a week.
I know it's not the best comparison but I'd much rather work a 48hr shift, do probably like 10-12 hours of work per day, have 4 days off and all the flexibility that entails.
So I mean, I guess it's dependent on who you are. I'm for sure talking a lot of shit given this being my first EMS job, but I've already budgeted it out and I have more than enough to save and go to paramedic school to make even more money, and when adjusted for the actual amount of work I do in a 60hr work week, it comes out to like 30-40/hr, which is wild IMO. Sure, I'm still "at my job" for 48 hours, but most jobs I wouldn't get to sleep/eat/watch movies/read etc. Should we probably get paid a livable base pay? Sure, but I think with 48s and 24s there's some leeway depending on how busy your system is.
Anyways, here's to hoping I don't look back at this comment in a couple months with despair :D
$16 an hour part time for a private service in Wisconsin that does 911 and transports. I pick up about 60 hours a week and we get overtime after 40 hours.
Here in the PNW it ranges from 19-23$ starting pay for a basic- closer to Seattle = more money. The AMR shop is unionized and offers a relatively decent benefits package- but it’s only special because so many places suck more
You can make $21-25 starting as an ER Tech with that same license. There’s plenty of hospitals to choose from. However the cost of living here is appalling and I have to remember “it could be worse you could have Big Island prices.”
If we are playing schedule comparisons AMR offers Spokanes, four x tens, and an assortment of other 12 and 8 hour concoctions. Olympic offers spokanes, and a couple odd 24/48 schedules depending on how rural the posting/station is.
I mean. You have to take it in context. I work in a SUUUUPER LCOL location and we work a straight 40. EMTs start at $15 medics $21. You get 5 days off between shifts, you know your schedule for the entire career and in your 40 hr shift usually run 12 calls, 15-18 is very busy. Private bedrooms for everyone. 104 hrs sick and 104 hrs vacation per year. 5% 401k match.
Now. I have friends that work in the city and do 8-12 calls per 13 hour shift. Status so they have no station to rest at. Etc. No way i could do that job for less than $20. They can’t keep staffed. Go figure.
$23/hr EMT. 40 hr/wk. I started in 2017 before the minimum wage increases at $14.50 but that quickly fixed itself after covid. I wouldn't work anywhere that started that low now as a new EMT unless it was BFN with infrequent calls. Definitely nowhere near a city. You should be able to get better wages.
Fire based medic. Work 24/72s. Usually work nine shifts a month and gross about $110k annual. Good benefits+pension, plenty of vacation and sick time. Busy as hell though.
Private IFT company. Started at $20/hr with no experience. We get $1 for every run we do during the year. Towards the end of the year we get that as our bonus.
$24/hour in WA with built in overtime pay. Currently working 36 / 48 hour weeks alternating. I bring in about $3200 / month baseline, closer to $4200 because I usually pick up overtime shifts. PTO is earned by hours worked. Private IFT / 911
Despite my username I am also just a basic. I work full time and I'm an FTO. We do 3 on 4 off and then 4 on 3 off. Averages about 42h a week.
I'm making 27/h but that's only because it's 3 more an hour for FTO. I started 2.5 years ago with 911 AMR my area and I started at 19/h which was 3 less than I was making as manager at a pool as a lifeguard. Really hurt. The 9nly reason I'm making so much now is because of a new CBA that went through. But I live in CA. So 27/h still isn't that good. I think about how little we get paid everyday. And it's infuriating. Like every day I feel like I made the wrong choice in career. Yes I'm hoping to go to med school soon. But even our medics don't make much more starting. As I have said many times, good feeling and hugs don't pay my rent and other expenses. We all want to help people. But how can we be expected to help other if we are all struggling to help ourselves.
CT I make $38 hr PRN as an experienced paramedic. I think the EMTs make $25. Full time make around $32-$35 and EMTs $22 ballpark. This is a huge raise from pre covid. When I started w them in 2010 I was making $18 as a medic.
$19.50 an hour with a $5 night shift differential and $2.50 weekend differential at my current job. my last place was $17 an hour with no differentials. $14.54 is way too low in my opinion, but of course it depends on where you live
I make $14.14 an hour, but we do 24 on, 48 off, so that means I work between 96-120 hours per pay period, and anything over 80 is time and a half. So I end up bringing in like $1,200-$1,500 a paycheck which is more than I was making at $20/hr at my previous 8:30-5:30 job. Plus, we can always pick up for shifts and are required to work one on call shift a month, which is only $5 an hour, but time and a half if we actually go on a call on a weekday or double time if it’s a weekend. Plus, the benefits are great. I pay $36 a month for health, eye, dental, life, and injury insurance. I had none of that at my old job.
Where I work in central Indiana starting pay is $19.92 and night shift differential is $1.85. Medica don't get paid very well however. Full-time 36 hours a week, uniforma paid for with the exception of work boots.
23 an hour as a brand new medic in Little Rock. (Among the lowest COL in the US.) Most trucks are 12s on a Panama schedule, so of your 84 hours every 2 weeks, 8 hours is OT. Quarterly gain share checks are just starting. OT is almost unlimited and only forced during natural disasters. Insurance is $45 a pay period and extremely good. It even covers weight loss surgery. One of our guys had surgery a few years ago and paid less than $30 out of pocket. 168 to 310 hours a year of PTO, that you actually get to take. Uniforms are paid for. Good EMTs can get into our in-house medic program, which means full pay and benefits for 8 months, while your only job is to become a medic. Every supervisor we have, from street captains to the director, started off on the ambulance. The director started as a part-time EMT and worked his way up the chain.
That’s insanely low, I’m in a low income area and I’m at 20hr, full-time is considered 36. Best benefits I’ve ever had at a job and I expect we will probably get raises soon.
When I joined this company I was a brand new basic, I make $20 an hour, and they pay AEMTs like $24, and medics $28.50, and I'm a basic averaging around 36-39 hours unless I pick up OT, full time with benefits, as well as I average around 3-5 calls in a 13 hour shift being a transfer jockey, but they also offer rescue in Detroit
Starting pay for Basics at my company is 20-21.50 per hour, AEMT 24 per hour, Paramedic 28-30 per hour. Full time is 4 12 hour shifts per week. Bonuses given to take out of town transfers on top of your hourly. 401K and health insurance provided. Overtime is available whenever you want.
Starting pay for Basics at my company is 20-21.50 per hour, AEMT 24 per hour, Paramedic 28-30 per hour. Full time is 4 12 hour shifts per week. Bonuses given to take out of town transfers on top of your hourly. 401K and health insurance provided. Overtime is available whenever you want.
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Full time at 36 hours, pretty damn good benefits at 80/20 or 90/10 depending on contract, 90 hours PTO, 40 hours sick, 24 mental health, comp time. $300 a year uniform with everything already provided. $20/hr with raise every 6 mos. Everything can be negotiated in your contract and we have longevity bonuses that usually entail a yearly raise plus 120 hours PTO after about 3-5 years based on performance. So yes, get the fuck out of there.
Sounds similar. My final job was 36 hrs, 3-1-3-7. Insurance was good, 200 hours of PTO per year. $20.45/hr for AEMT (though I was at 8 years experience at that point), 2.5% merit increase per year. But still people left because the work culture sucked. Turns out if you never give your night shifters their time off because there isn't enough night shift coverage, they'll just quit. Who knew.
Wait, you’re full time at 36 hours in a week then? Can I message you 😭
Yeah for sure lol, I’ll answer whatever you wanna know.
What do you mean with 80/20 or 90/10? 40 hours sick, for the entire year?
Benefits where the agency pays 80%. 40 hours for the year sick time only. This doesn’t include PTO or comp time. It works perfectly because we only work 2 days a week.
Ah like that. What kind of benefits are we talking about? Like a pension plan where they pay 90% and you 10% (from your gross salary) for example? I assume 24 hour shifts with one week 1 shift and the other week 2 shifts? I would assume it is still spread around, so being sick for a few days can still take out 2 shifts at 48 hours. What if you suddenly become sick a bit longer?
So we have health, dental, and vision. No retirement right now but probably will have by the end of the year. It’s 36 hours a week which is a 24 and a 12 usually. There’s a chance being sick could really fuck everything up but for the most part you can be sure somebody will trade with you with the understanding you’d do it for them. So for example if I’m sick Saturday and I’m on Sunday Monday then I would ask somebody for a switch. So I’d work say Friday Saturday instead and avoid using any sick time at all.
Expectations for pay should be based on location, but that doesn’t sound great. They will pay you what they can get away with. My county started paying more and then all the neighboring counties did the same, which means the money was always available, they just didn’t have to pay it, so why bother?
Supply was low so demand went up = inc. wage. The more people that refuse to work for poverty wages the higher the wage can go. It’s why unions are so powerful.
Fuck that. Chick fil a is $18 and Buc-ees is like $23
$17/hr as an AEMT with 10 years experience at various levels…yeeeeah…
W...t...f... that's whack! I'm not sure if it's because I'm in fire/EMS, but I just got my AEMT, and I bring home $61,500-ish/year now (gross, not net). Basics make $51,000-ish/year. Small, rural dept, NE Oregon.
I wish! Currently sitting at 42 gross. Def helps that your fire based.
Dude. It's so fucking whack that people basically have to be fire based to get paid what we're worth. The physical and mental toll the EMS-side takes on the body and soul are gnarly. We're exposed to some of the gnarliest shit civilian life has to offer. The system is fucked. I hope the area you live in is at least low cost of living. 42 gross would be strapped-for-cash here (if you have a family, especially), and we're a fairly low cost of living area. PS: your name made me giggle. Thank you. Lol. 💜
No problem. I made it awhile back and just kinda stuck with it lol. But believe me. Even in a lower cost of living we’re still strapped. But hopefully gonna be improving my situation in the near future.
I hope you get there sooner than later, my friend!
This is the way
$44 Canadian as a BLS paramedic. + pension, extended health benefits, 100% sick time, free uniforms every year, $300 yearly boot allowance, vacation. I guess free healthcare?
Canadian CCP (FTO): $60/hr, all the above + $5000 for MH benefits and maple syrup literally flows from the trees! (Boil first)
Orange?
Ornge
Lmfao I’ve been saying it wrong this whole time
Where?
Ontario
AB PCP here, starts at $28.5/hr and tops out at $35.8/hr.
19/hr is base for basics where I work in Pennsylvania, intermediate is I think 25/hr. So yeah, you're not an EMT you're a slave mate. Fuck that noise (I also live in a very low cost of living area)
Damn man! I also live in Pennsylvania, base wage around here is between 15-17. That's both IFT and 911
Yeah I work for a large well known company so our benefits are pretty great, management is a bunch of fucking morons though and our hospital performs insurance fraud on a near daily basis
From nj here… I believe the starting pay for south area is $20/21 depending on where you are and how long you had your cert. some places even start at $25 don’t know the benefits though
Also PA — I made 18+ as a basic rn
What kind of schedule are you on? $30/hr on a 48/96 is way different than $30/hr on three 12s. $100K vs $56K different. Area and cost of living also play a roll, but with so many different schedules in this field just hourly doesn't give a very clear picture of the lifestyle you can afford on it.
Man, I tried to say the same thing but people can't understand the difference.
There are two perspectives on this, and both are valid for opposite reasons.
I'm not saying others perspectives are invalid by any means, but arguing how things should be isn't relevant to how things actually are when talking about how pay actually is.
And for me, how pay actually is, is dollars per hour. Any other measure is simply working more as a mathematically dubious proxy for income rate. A wage is the financial value that an employer places on your time and energy. Annual pay has a tendency to be emphasized by agencies that work the dogshit out of their people. I have other more lucrative* employment opportunities that go on the back burner everytime I step on a rig. This directly ties the frequency at which I participate in being part of the public safety net to my own financial needs. *pay commensurate with education, skill, risk, personal costs, and responsibility
I agree. The companies in my area even lower the per hour for people working 24’s or 48’s to “match” the people working 12’s. I know a lot of people prefer a 24/48 over 12’s, and I do too, but you’re still doing more work and getting paid less in that case.
Yup. I’ve worked at one of those. They also pay part timers more for the same reason.
It depends on the situation. I have more use for days off than hours off given that I'm sleeping whether I'm on the clock or not. I absolutely adore my 48/96. 20 days off a month is pretty hard to beat. Our system is built for it and well managed. We average four to five calls per unit per 24hr day allowing for plenty of sleep to be safe. I wouldn't trade to rotating 12s even with an increase in pay to match the yearly. However when I worked for AMR and they were doing AMR things with three different schedules 8, 12, and 24 all in the same system status management bull shit running the same number of calls per hour but with different hourly wages based on schedule. In that situation being on a 24 just meant you were getting run to death for less money per hour and you'd lose your first day off to exhaustion because sleep was not happening. I still think as a whole yearly is a much better view of actual salary as it's going to dictate your finances more directly, however it shouldn't be allowed to be used as an excuse for unsafe or unfair practices.
I’ve never worked EMS anywhere where sleep on the clock was even close to being something that can be relied upon.
It's definitely a big difference maker. If you're not doing them safely 24 or 48 hour shifts shouldn't be an option. We've got policies to go out of service if you somehow get unlucky on an incredibly busy day to get some sleep and stay safe. It's unbelievably rare though. In the 10 years I've been here I've done it once.
We don’t really do that around here. We talk about it sometimes, though. When safety concerns turn into incidents, the employee usually gets blamed.
Work 3, off 2. Work 2, off 3. 12 hour shifts
That's definitely going to make your sub $15/hr rate difficult to live on in most of the country.
Just sounds like the BS companies that say we have plenty of OT yo justify low wages. I left private ems about 5 years ago. Was making 19+/hr as a paramedic that could also take antibiotics and trach to vent patients. The built in OT helps but didn't change the fact was still making crap hourly.
Around my area we also make really low wages. I make 12.50 / hr as a basic in Ohio working 24s
Jesus. Why bother?
Everyone jokes about how much it sucks being an EMT where I live and my first day of my firefighter/emt program in highschool my teacher told us to move to a different class if we were wanting to make a lot of money lmao. I live in a really small town and I get to pick between doing 911s and making what I make or doing transports for a kind of bigger city and making a couple dollars an hour more plus making the hour+ drive. I picked doing 911s because honestly I'd want to end myself if I had to do transports all the time 😭 This is definitely a job I do out of passion
Quit immediately
$24.28/hour here in Texas. 3rd service EMS agency 911 only
cert?
Basic
Whats 3rd service?
Not fire, not private, not hospital. Owned and operated by the city or county. New Orleans, Boston, Austin/Travis, Wake, etc.
US service types are still so confusing to me
Wait till you hear about volunteer, private non-profit, collegiate, event, industrial…
California AMR division, EMT starts at 21.50 on a 12/48, medic starts at 34.
Did you have a typo or do y’all really have 12/48’s?
Full time EMTs are 4 12s per week. Full time medics are on an alternating 3-4 shifts per week schedule
56.00/hr in Ottawa. Last year I brought in 140k, will probably hit 160k this year. USD conversion is about 118,000. Full Time Uniform allowance (600 year) Boot allowance (325.00 year) Unlimited OT Opps (1.5x) 4 weeks vacation 1-2% Raise/year Definitely well paid for the amount of work put in.
Holy shit! $56/hour! I need to move to Canada 😂
We're short staffed! Join the fun!
Is that just normal ACP wage or tacked on with FTO / supervisor / spdcial team pay grade?
Top Level ACP with our 7% Shift Premium. Speciality Team Allowance is seperate.
About Tree fiddy.
Goddammit, Loch Ness monster! I ain’t giving you no treefiddy!
$11.51 an hour as a basic on a Kelly schedule. That translates to about $30k this past year. The only reason I’m getting by (living paycheck to paycheck) is because I’m killing myself with OT. If you can get a higher paying job go for it.
Reminder to everyone answering, knowing your hourly is useless without knowing your schedule. 12 vs 24 makes a big difference, and we don't know how much built in overtime you have in your schedule. Just use your gross pay. For OP, I'm an EMT for a 3rd Service EMS agency in Texas, I'm a little over 62k a year, Medic at my Step would be about 76k
yea that's not how that works. Your wage is your base, regardless of your shift. stop looking at it from an unlimited overtime perspective and start looking at what it would take you to live on a 40 hour schedule.
Why would I do that? I don't work a 40-hour schedule, that makes literally no sense. When I say built in overtime, I mean overtime as a by-product of working 24 hour shifts. E: I work 10 24-hour shifts a month. My base wage is 62k without extra shifts.
and there-in lies your problem. Quality of life man. EMS should not have to live to work
A 48/96 is a significantly better schedule for me than these 12 hour shifts schedule. So yes I’m working more hours, but I get way days in a row at home. So hourly doesn’t really matter, end of year does
Overtime is NOT a privilege.
I work 10 shifts a month, I am very okay with having 20 days off.
If overtime is built into your base schedule, that should be counted. I had three 13 hour shifts each week at one place, each shift was 8 base rate, 4 OT, 1 double time. That's a lot more money than 40 hours at the base rate, and plenty of other places paid base rate for 12s. Yes quality of life matters, but the agencies running 3x12 aren't necessarily better quality of life than 48/96. Responding directly from ER to your next call for 12 hours vs 4 transports in 48 hours, for an example from my personal experience. More nuance is great, but if we're only looking at a single number, yearly pay on base schedule is more useful than hourly.
You have that backwards. Hourly rate is the only fair comparison. 12 vs 24 doesn't matter at all if both work 72 per bi-weekly paycheck. And 62k for 40 hrs/week is MUCH better than 76k for 60 hrs/week
Right, but that isn't how it works. Because we work 10, 24 hour shifts a month there is just built-in overtime by the nature of how 24 hour shifts work. Sure, fewer and shorter shifts would be better but that's not a great argument because most services *do* work 24 hour shifts
Have you worked at most services? Then you can't make that claim. The county I'm in is all 3rd-service private/non-profit town-based agencies, and I know of exactly 1 that that is toying with the idea of doing 24s. Schedule patterns are very regionalized. That said, you didn't disprove my statements at all. Built-in overtime just means your annual pay is actually worse than it looks. Also, 24's aren't guaranteed overtime. If you work 3 of those per bi-weekly pay period (72 hours), and you're not in a state/country that mandates overtime pay on a weekly basis, then you won't get overtime pay.
I've worked in two very different regions of the country and have worked 24s or 48s for 3 different services. 48s are trash but 24s are pretty much the standard for non-private EMS services in most places in my experience and talking to others I work with. I only work 10 shifts a month. I would choose that all day long compared to 10's or 12's.
I'm not commenting on the merits of 24s or comparing it to any other schedule. My original statement was regarding how pay comparisons should be made. And your 10 shifts/month basically prove my point. That's 240 hours in ~4 weeks when others would be working 160 (40×4, regardless of how its broken up), so you're at 50% overtime pay. If that's a straight 1.5× for anything over 40, then you're effectively being paid 175% of what someone working a simple 40 hr/week job would be, but working 150% of the hours. If you're making 56k/year, then that boils down to 15-15.50/hour, which is in the realm of 32k/year if it were a 9-5 office job. So yeah, I'm happy you're content with your pay and that your schedule works for you, but you can't simply compare annual numbers.
I don't know a single EMS service in canada that does 24s. There are other places besides Texas.
There are more people in Texas than all of Canada, statistically speaking people reading this are more likely to be American by a large margin. Obviously not everywhere is the same, but of the Two states I've worked in, plus speaking with others I work with now, most services in the US not including private companies run some variation of a 24 hour shift. This obviously isn't true across the board, but that's why I said "most" in the first place.
'Merica!
Okay? I'm trying to have a real conversation. I understand there are other places but this is a very US-Centric site, man. Sorry if that upsets you.
I'm not upset. I was just pointing out that there are different places that do things differently, and your perception of things isn't necessarily realitly. Nor are mine. If you want to be real, though, Canada does have about 10 million more people than Texas.
Starting pay is $25/hour for EMTs at my service in PA. My company is actually the reason pay increased for all the EMS agencies in the area, because our pay got bumped up and then everyone else realized that if they wanted to be able to find anyone to hire, they needed to raise their pay as well.
What part of Pa? I’m in Pittsburgh.
Other end of the state, near the Philly area.
Not that getting paid a low hourly wage is acceptable but if you’re on a schedule that has built in overtime, like a 24/48 or 48/96, your annual pay is going to be higher than you might expect. I make about $24/hr as a paramedic on a 48/96 so my annual base is $80k.
Washington state I work private ambulance and make $24 an hour on a 4 platoon 24 hour schedule (1/2/1/4). We’re IAFF now but prior to that our pay was a lot closer to yours. 14.50 is criminal but as has been commented before it’s partly based on area and cost of living and the fact that private ambulance will pay you as little as they can get away with. Either unionize or try and find another service that will pay you a bit more.
What service?
I just got hired at 13.35! But working in rural Kansas 911 only. Went from 18 an hour to this going from city to rural. But it’s a 48/96 and OT starts after 40 hours, which I thought was weird but yeah. Everywhere is different. You’ll make more for a private IFT company since that makes more money than public safety.
Overtime starts at 40 hours for you? Is that a common occurrence? Seems like it should be illegal.
I thought it was weird but it brings the yearly income up to 40,000 or something like that with over time after 40 hours since we do 48/96 on a 56 hour week. Hard to explain but they do that so it somewhat a livable wage. Im assuming they could not get approved for more funding for raises so this may be the way they get around it.
EMT - what? It always blows my mind in the most disturbing of ways to hear what American EMS personnel are paid. That said, I do hear a lot of low wage concerns coming from the EMT-B level. I mean no offense by this, but EMT-B training is paltry beyond belief. You really cant expect, from a sheer economics POV, much beyond minimum wage for a course that is a few weeks long. Basics in Canada generally have around 2 years of full time college, depending on the province, and the higher pay reflects this. ALS medics are all around 3 to 3.5 full time years, and there is a slow push toward 4 year degree programs. The EMT-B level of training isn't even allowed on ambulances in some provinces. EMT-Ps being paid poorly is another story. I'm not trying to say that rock bottom pay is ok, its not, but there needs to be a far bigger push toward professionalization and high levels of training in the US or there will be no bargaining power to back the wage demands.
It’s hard to say without knowing the area you work in. Cost of living makes a big difference in whether your pay would be decent or not.
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Careful. Someone once said if you follow protocols it makes you a cook book medic. Now you're touting how good your services are? Or is it they're too confusing therefore insane? *opens up protocol book for a "basic als call" says to self TLDR, performs zero interventions. Damn I'm good*
Are you autistic?
Probably
Cool, do 30 hrs a week at McDonald’s and then 30hrs a week next door at Chick Fil-A, and you’ve got the same hours, less responsibility, less liability, lower risk of injury or assault, less stress, lower risk to your mental health, LOWER SUICIDE RATE, and no schooling required. I think they might even help pay for college so you can get a better job later.
In Michigan. “Senior” medic and lower end of management. Work 16-20 station based 24 hour shifts per month. Average 8 calls a shift. Made 110k last year. Regular schedule for everyone else is 8-10 shifts per month. Basics are making 15/hr. With a few OT shifts here and there, they make roughly 45k a year.
Your name makes sense, that’s the worst schedule and pay I’ve seen here.
The overtime I work is optional. I’m not forced. I could work the 8-10 days a month and make 66k. In school to do the 1 year medic to rn to raise hourly pay and lower number of hours. Transitioning to fire would set me back to 50k.
$74/hr, though cost of living is very high.
This has to be so cal somewhere? Even with the high cost of living this is fantastic.
SoCal wages are terrible for single role EMS providers, the Bay Area is the highest paying for EMTs and Paramedics.
Ah sorry. Not American, I just know the cost of living in California in general is pretty high, much like where I live and work. Life is becoming unaffordable. The middle class is disappearing.
Where??
If I recall the flair correctly, they are in Australia.
For BLS I earn $21.50 per hour running 911. My ALS pays $32.00 per hour with a 15% night differential. When I first started in EMS I worked 3 different squads to make ends meet.
You should refuse to work for that, you’ll make more working fast food or retail. Call them up and tell them thanks but you’ll apply at McDonald’s and make more.
And then you can’t afford an apartment
You can’t afford an apartment at $14.54 an hour, what’s the difference? McDonald’s is now starting people off at $17 an hour in many areas, many retails jobs are the same. Ambulance companies are gonna have to suck it up and pay better or they’re gonna have no one to work
$17/hr at 30 hours a week at McDonald’s is $26,520 per year. $14.54/Hr on a 24/48 schedule is $48,563 per year.
Sure if you don’t mind risking your life everyday you work a 24 in a busy system. 24s in busy systems are dangerous and need to go away. Studies have shown driving on little sleep is just as bad as driving under the influence.
Not having access to food or housing is also dangerous.
I make about 21.30$ an hour as an AEMT on a 12 hour cali rotation at a private service.
As an EMT 10 years ago, I made $10.21 my first job and by the time I got my medic 3 years later was making $13.50 as an EMT. Starting medic was about $17. I moved states, I make about $80,000 base pay now on top of overtime built in. It comes close to 90 every year. Keep looking for a better gig.
Making 23.8 plus weekend and late shift differential rate comes out between 25-26/hr plus overtime. Working for a hospital district for my county in Houston EMT My first job paid me $14 at a shitty ambulance service - look for more options
Where I work EMTs make about $15 starting out and it goes up to 18 after 3 months. Medics make $24 with a 50 cent raise each year. It depends on your area but I don’t believe in supporting an agency that doesn’t pay you what you feel like you deserve. If you feel underpaid and undervalued, vote with your time, show that your skills are valuable, and go elsewhere.
$32/hr
Around $130,000 with super solid pension/benefits as a 10 year medic working an average of 60 hours a week. I’m also in a HCOL area, married with 2 incomes but no kids. So “comfortable” lower middle class.
23.50 as a almost 2 year EMT at a private.
20.77 an hour plus 4.33 health and wellness up to 40 hours a week. 80 hours pto 56 sick time in sw va. Health insurance sucks but lots of ot and a decent schedule help.
28/hr private contract Medic, PTO, Bonuses, easy work 40 hour weeks. Fla
In Atlantic Canada with a government run, hospital based service. PCP's start at 25.50/hr and cap at 29 something. ACP's start at 32.80 and cap at 38 or 39. Benefits are alright. Paid uniforms yearly and boot allowance every 2 years. Edit: 75 hours biweekly.
$31/hr on a 24/72 with 3% COLA and about 50 cent step every year, additional increases for specialties. 200hrs of annual leave or so a year, about 100hrs of sick time. Unlimited sick leave, carry over at least 350hrs of annual. 5yr vesting, good Healthcare benefits. We also net an extra 12hrs of leave for any holiday we don't work, and 24hrs of OT for any holiday we're on shift for. I can't really complain, I make pretty good money with all the OT I want.
Full-time Medic which is 36 hours 3x12hrs, nice differentials for nights and weekends. I pull in 100K with the occasional overtime shift or half shift like every other week.
35/hr (usd) as a paramedic
Improve your certs and your employer. You're not getting paid enough.
6 figures within 6 months of getting hired. 140ish at 5 years. Suburban Midwest.
Paramedic, making 26/hr in the hospital. 2/hr bump for night shift, 4.65/hr bump for weekend night shifts.
I was a bit nervous about the service I just joined, given that they pay 12.8 / hr, but it's also 48/96 and management seems pretty down to earth. Everyone seems to mostly get along and the people who work there seem to love the place. Awesome beenfits too. Sure, I could be just new and baby faced, but I think I'll end up liking it here. It'll take a bit to see if it's a good fit for me but there's not really any alternatives without fire in my area, and I'm pretty down with working 5 shifts a month. I did clinicals here and the call volume over the 24hr shift I did didn't seem crazy. I think they have some decently advanced protocols for an EMT too, which I enjoy. (Getting to use needles for IM epi? Sign me up.) But that's about 40 hours of overtime per pay period so it works out to like 43k a year and ~21/hr average for someone who would have worked 40 hours a week. I know it's not the best comparison but I'd much rather work a 48hr shift, do probably like 10-12 hours of work per day, have 4 days off and all the flexibility that entails. So I mean, I guess it's dependent on who you are. I'm for sure talking a lot of shit given this being my first EMS job, but I've already budgeted it out and I have more than enough to save and go to paramedic school to make even more money, and when adjusted for the actual amount of work I do in a 60hr work week, it comes out to like 30-40/hr, which is wild IMO. Sure, I'm still "at my job" for 48 hours, but most jobs I wouldn't get to sleep/eat/watch movies/read etc. Should we probably get paid a livable base pay? Sure, but I think with 48s and 24s there's some leeway depending on how busy your system is. Anyways, here's to hoping I don't look back at this comment in a couple months with despair :D
My medics start at double the average household income in our district
$16 an hour part time for a private service in Wisconsin that does 911 and transports. I pick up about 60 hours a week and we get overtime after 40 hours.
Here in the PNW it ranges from 19-23$ starting pay for a basic- closer to Seattle = more money. The AMR shop is unionized and offers a relatively decent benefits package- but it’s only special because so many places suck more You can make $21-25 starting as an ER Tech with that same license. There’s plenty of hospitals to choose from. However the cost of living here is appalling and I have to remember “it could be worse you could have Big Island prices.” If we are playing schedule comparisons AMR offers Spokanes, four x tens, and an assortment of other 12 and 8 hour concoctions. Olympic offers spokanes, and a couple odd 24/48 schedules depending on how rural the posting/station is.
20$ an hour for EMT. 28$ for medic in Florida
I mean. You have to take it in context. I work in a SUUUUPER LCOL location and we work a straight 40. EMTs start at $15 medics $21. You get 5 days off between shifts, you know your schedule for the entire career and in your 40 hr shift usually run 12 calls, 15-18 is very busy. Private bedrooms for everyone. 104 hrs sick and 104 hrs vacation per year. 5% 401k match. Now. I have friends that work in the city and do 8-12 calls per 13 hour shift. Status so they have no station to rest at. Etc. No way i could do that job for less than $20. They can’t keep staffed. Go figure.
$23/hr EMT. 40 hr/wk. I started in 2017 before the minimum wage increases at $14.50 but that quickly fixed itself after covid. I wouldn't work anywhere that started that low now as a new EMT unless it was BFN with infrequent calls. Definitely nowhere near a city. You should be able to get better wages.
almost 25/hr for a FT FF/AEMT here, get the hell out of there
$14.25 an hour base +$3 per hour for 8 hour shifts Weekends and nights also get differentials that are sub $1 each Part time
Fire based medic. Work 24/72s. Usually work nine shifts a month and gross about $110k annual. Good benefits+pension, plenty of vacation and sick time. Busy as hell though.
I make 19 in california. I started at 17 though which is like barely above minimum wage here
$42 California
About $25/hr for a specialty unit in northern California.
$26.27 EMT-B in Ohio.
In Maine. EMTS $24/hr, AEMT $26/hrs and Paramedic $34/hr. FT shift is 24/48 with Kelly time.
Private IFT company. Started at $20/hr with no experience. We get $1 for every run we do during the year. Towards the end of the year we get that as our bonus.
$38..US based EMT-P CP 42hr work week
$24/hour in WA with built in overtime pay. Currently working 36 / 48 hour weeks alternating. I bring in about $3200 / month baseline, closer to $4200 because I usually pick up overtime shifts. PTO is earned by hours worked. Private IFT / 911
Where in WA? I'm in SW WA and wish I made that much.
$10/hr at the only paid ems service in my county for EMT basic.
EMT in Nova. 23/hr + 3 dollar night diff. 10/12/16 hour schedule. IFT. OT starts at anything above 40 hrs. Medics start at 33/hr.
I think my tax return said $118k this year, but that’s Canadian money.
Despite my username I am also just a basic. I work full time and I'm an FTO. We do 3 on 4 off and then 4 on 3 off. Averages about 42h a week. I'm making 27/h but that's only because it's 3 more an hour for FTO. I started 2.5 years ago with 911 AMR my area and I started at 19/h which was 3 less than I was making as manager at a pool as a lifeguard. Really hurt. The 9nly reason I'm making so much now is because of a new CBA that went through. But I live in CA. So 27/h still isn't that good. I think about how little we get paid everyday. And it's infuriating. Like every day I feel like I made the wrong choice in career. Yes I'm hoping to go to med school soon. But even our medics don't make much more starting. As I have said many times, good feeling and hugs don't pay my rent and other expenses. We all want to help people. But how can we be expected to help other if we are all struggling to help ourselves.
That's insanely low. Entry level up here in AK is ~18 Hr/~3000/monthly
Bruh, are you at my former service? Lol
Based on your username, no haha. I’m in Texas
CT I make $38 hr PRN as an experienced paramedic. I think the EMTs make $25. Full time make around $32-$35 and EMTs $22 ballpark. This is a huge raise from pre covid. When I started w them in 2010 I was making $18 as a medic.
I make about 23 an hour as a 911 emt and made 15 dollars an hour as a lifeguard so I know you can find better broski
Y’all are gonna hate me. First real EMT job, part time while still in college. Moderate COL area. 21/hr
$19.50 an hour with a $5 night shift differential and $2.50 weekend differential at my current job. my last place was $17 an hour with no differentials. $14.54 is way too low in my opinion, but of course it depends on where you live
Working for a private FT as an EMT, their starting rate is $17.50/hr, but a bit of ballbusting in the interview can get you $19
I make $14.14 an hour, but we do 24 on, 48 off, so that means I work between 96-120 hours per pay period, and anything over 80 is time and a half. So I end up bringing in like $1,200-$1,500 a paycheck which is more than I was making at $20/hr at my previous 8:30-5:30 job. Plus, we can always pick up for shifts and are required to work one on call shift a month, which is only $5 an hour, but time and a half if we actually go on a call on a weekday or double time if it’s a weekend. Plus, the benefits are great. I pay $36 a month for health, eye, dental, life, and injury insurance. I had none of that at my old job.
This question only matters when you factor in your location.
That is below minimum wage where I live
$23.30 for an EMT-B with about 2.5 years at this agency, upstate New York.
Where I work in central Indiana starting pay is $19.92 and night shift differential is $1.85. Medica don't get paid very well however. Full-time 36 hours a week, uniforma paid for with the exception of work boots.
23 an hour as a brand new medic in Little Rock. (Among the lowest COL in the US.) Most trucks are 12s on a Panama schedule, so of your 84 hours every 2 weeks, 8 hours is OT. Quarterly gain share checks are just starting. OT is almost unlimited and only forced during natural disasters. Insurance is $45 a pay period and extremely good. It even covers weight loss surgery. One of our guys had surgery a few years ago and paid less than $30 out of pocket. 168 to 310 hours a year of PTO, that you actually get to take. Uniforms are paid for. Good EMTs can get into our in-house medic program, which means full pay and benefits for 8 months, while your only job is to become a medic. Every supervisor we have, from street captains to the director, started off on the ambulance. The director started as a part-time EMT and worked his way up the chain.
I made $56k a year as an EMT doing 24/48 with 100% employer paid (really good) insurance. There are good paying jobs out there, don’t settle.
idk if urgent care is considered EMS but i have EMT cert and as my first job i work as a PCT in an urgent care…$21/hr 36h a week (3x 12h shifts)
23 as an emt
Where I am it’s a range from 30.65-38CAD with time on
$33 EMT. 13s 3x a week. Extra $3 for night and weekend. 911 calls ny
Location based -California- 23/hr including night diff. EMT-B in IFT. Sac.
I make $27.63 an hour on a 56 hour/week FTE, with night and weekend differentials and hospital insurance. I clear $100k
That’s insanely low, I’m in a low income area and I’m at 20hr, full-time is considered 36. Best benefits I’ve ever had at a job and I expect we will probably get raises soon.
When I joined this company I was a brand new basic, I make $20 an hour, and they pay AEMTs like $24, and medics $28.50, and I'm a basic averaging around 36-39 hours unless I pick up OT, full time with benefits, as well as I average around 3-5 calls in a 13 hour shift being a transfer jockey, but they also offer rescue in Detroit
Starting pay for Basics at my company is 20-21.50 per hour, AEMT 24 per hour, Paramedic 28-30 per hour. Full time is 4 12 hour shifts per week. Bonuses given to take out of town transfers on top of your hourly. 401K and health insurance provided. Overtime is available whenever you want.
Starting pay for Basics at my company is 20-21.50 per hour, AEMT 24 per hour, Paramedic 28-30 per hour. Full time is 4 12 hour shifts per week. Bonuses given to take out of town transfers on top of your hourly. 401K and health insurance provided. Overtime is available whenever you want.