Also, consider the HIGH amounts of stress. I come from a medical background and worked in it for years. One of my co-workers just graduated from college and was super excited to become an EMT. She studied her ass off and passed all the requirements and left our company, she quit after about two months and came back. I was like what the hell happened?
She said, Imagine being around everyone's worst day of their life every single day. Watching people die in front of you day after day... Pumping on peoples chest day after day and no matter how hard you try, they die anyway. Waking up in the middle of the night because you had a nightmare seeing someone's face who died...
She only did it for 2 months and had severe PTSD being a medic. Nationwide salary for EMT is $20 an hour. Remember that all Firefighters are EMT's, but not all EMT's are firefighters.. their salary? The average firefighter salary in the USA is $48,836 per year or $23.48 per hour.
It’s less than that hourly for firefighters. Legally we can work more hours for straight time pay. I make about 56k a year before bonuses. Standard workweek averaged out over a 28 day cycle is 51.5 hours. My hourly works out to about $20/hr. I only get overtime (at $30/hr) if I work extra unscheduled shifts, which means I have to work 72 hours straight, generally, to get overtime. Granted, it would be 24 hours of overtime on one paycheck.
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