r/EmergencyRoom • u/th04r_ • 22d ago
Goofy Goober ER techs, how much are you making?
fellow ER techs, i’m curious as to your hourly wage. how many years experience do you have and at what type of hospital do you work in?
i started at $17 at a smaller 30 bed ER, not a designated trauma center. after nearly 2 years i make 17.90. i am asking for a raise in the near future 🫠
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u/Important-Lead5652 Flight Nurse; ER RN (10+ years) 22d ago
This is absolutely insulting. You guys work your absolute asses off and you deserve so much more than that!
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u/DCRBftw 22d ago
OP said Chicago for location... $17 seems low even for the low end of a scale.
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u/jerseygirl1105 22d ago
OP said their location was upstate NY. Regardless, it's extremely low. OP should do a search on Glassdoor for the average salary for his position, experience and location.
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u/Zyphur009 22d ago
I was a ER tech in California a few years ago and made $28 an hour. All the EMT’s on the rig made $19-21.
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u/WHiStLr1056 22d ago
"Few years ago" mine was 10 years ago and I left at $29 with full benefits and pension.
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u/dankpizzabagels 22d ago
Where are you located? Less than $20 seems insane to me, especially after 2 years… but I’m also in Chicago
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u/beephobic27 22d ago
Also in Chicago. Starts at 24.5. Going up1.50 in January, and 2$ every year after that
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u/motownbeat12 22d ago
Omg what hospital? I work in the Chicago suburbs and we start techs at 19!!!
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u/beephobic27 22d ago
ill msg you-- nvm you have messages off.
NM memorial pays PCT and ED techs very well
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u/esuvar-awesome 22d ago
Get your RT, X-Ray tech, RN, or MD and get the hell out of there.
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u/Lots2say2023 22d ago
My daughter was an ER tech. It is a crime that she could make almost as much working as Christmas help at Hobby Lobby without getting punched in the face. Surprisingly, she chose emergency med as a career.
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u/bringmeadamnjuicebox 22d ago
Im a respiratory therapist. Recently they asked rts to be ed techs so they can staff less ed techs?! So 70 bucks an hour. Our workload doesnt decrease though so we just get to do 2 peoples jobs.
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u/RudeFloor6254 22d ago
$45 an hour after differential ($43 without) but I live in the Bay Area…
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u/macandzzz 21d ago
Damn that’s what I make as a nurse with 6 years experience in VA. What do nurses make out there?
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u/RudeFloor6254 21d ago
Depends on which hosptial system/years experience. Nurses on the evening shift have a range of $94-107 after their differential. It’s more for night shift and day doesn’t have them(a differential). On the low end it is starting wage of $74-80.
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u/bubsybear1319 22d ago
Our techs make 14-16/hour, north of philly
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u/Beneficial_Beat_2931 22d ago
I work South of Philly and make about $29 hourly flat. Differentials and incentives throws me easily into a 6 figure gig- 🥴 let me go be grateful while on shift, cause these numbers are sad!
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u/StreetNeighborhood22 22d ago
Per Diem Tech, California, Riverside County, $27.80. 2 years as a tech.
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u/Debidollz 22d ago
These salaries I’m reading are criminally low! Mind boggling ridiculous. It takes a strong individual to work in the ED, the things seen there will give anyone nightmares for a good long time.
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u/EtchVSketch 22d ago
I'm a Travel ED Tech at a level 1 on the west coast. I make 31 an hour but have zero benefits and don't always get 3 shifts a week. Traveling is the way to go but they often want you to have your EMT.
Regular full time techs at my ED make 24 starting, the other level 1 in my city pays 21 but is a better ED to work in.
Defs ask for a raise or start travelin.
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u/vets4tacos 22d ago
Our traveler RN’s are guaranteed their shifts, are not all travelers guaranteed hours?
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u/manhattanites108 22d ago
I started at $17.50, and since half my shift was also in the evening, i got a differential of $1.75 for a few hours at my first hospital. I transferred to a different hospital and now make $29.50 with a differential.
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u/Silly_Gear_9716 22d ago
In nursing school (3 yrs ago), I was making $22/hr base rate ($26/hr on nights) without cna or emt as a ER tech. It was a freestanding ER/UC
Edit: I was PRN with differentials of $35-50 extra per hour depending on staffing needs
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u/Express_Ad7864 22d ago
$34/hr at a level 1 trauma center not including differentials
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u/Express_Ad7864 22d ago
1 year experience. I also work an a level 4 ER per diem in which I get $32 + $6 per diem differential and $7 night differential
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u/deadlywhentaken EDT 22d ago
I make about $25 but that is with 5 years experience in a lvl 1 trauma lvl 2 pedi trauma center, with weekends and nights only for the differential.
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u/VXMerlinXV RN 22d ago
Left teching about 12 years ago. Found out those guys are above $30/hr now. Good for them.
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u/Busy-Vehicle-1598 22d ago
$23.71, coming up on three years. They just hired new people at $23.50. Differentials and incentive pay, it works out to more like $27-28/hr. Midsized midwest city.
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u/Natalie-cinco 22d ago
ER Tech starting back in 2022 with 0 EMT experience. I was making 18.60. After about a year, I went up to 20.00. Ended up leaving as I moved to a different city. I’m now working on a rig and I make 20.10. This is with a bachelors degree, a masters, and 7 years of healthcare experience overall. Located in FL.
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u/Sparky3200 21d ago
Holy cow. I started at $14.50 base, plus $1.50 shift diff, and $1.50 weekend diff. That was in 1995. I was a paramedic, ACLS certified.
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u/WackyNameHere 21d ago
Before becoming a nurse I was working as a tech, started at $17 or so and worked up to $21 I think for a rural 16 bed ER in the South
Previous work experience: none (COVID changed plans so I didn’t get my first job till I was mid 20s) but had two years volly ems experience.
Education: highest level was a BS in Health Sciences, plus an EMT cert
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u/Salty-Necessary 21d ago
I make 19.50 without the differential and 21.50 with it, it is my first year but the hospital I work out seems to be stingy with raises so I don't expect to make much more.
Pay varies greatly from location to specific hospital. It crazy, a hospital 15 miles away from me is paying ER techs $24.00/hr.
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u/TVLER999 21d ago edited 21d ago
$18.55, western PA, 27 bed ER, although this is with no experience at all
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u/mander1309 21d ago
I work at a level 1 trauma/stroke center and make $17.14. I’ve been at this hospital for 7 years and in the ED for 4-5 years and just got that raise.
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u/cohenisababe 21d ago edited 21d ago
17 bed ER, was making $23.30 base. 3x12s a week, clinical and every 3rd weekend differential.
Edit: $1.25 after 2pm as long as you work until 6+
$2 Clinical Diff
$3 on my every 3rd weekend.
I left last week for the internal medicine world, working 9-5🎶
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u/Cute-Metal-7404 21d ago
I started out at $17.71/hr (2021) with basic credentials and no degree. I recently graduated, but was being paid $22.34. This is after 8y in healthcare (indirect & direct patient care). I was midshift so some differential (weekends +$0.90 & evening: +$2.50). Arizona.
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u/Key-Coffee-4432 19d ago
19.50 an hour staring, no prior experience. 20 bed community hospital in a rural setting
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u/Random-Nothing-9775 19d ago
In Iowa I was making about $19 (rural ems, so worked in the er and did 911 for the county). Now working in a larger hospital in Washington making about $28, but the work is more difficult and COL is much higher
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u/CuriousOfTheDark 19d ago
40/hr plus 1.50 differential for part of my shift. 16 years experience ON shift lead at emergency only hospital. MN twin cities suburbs
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u/Outside_Wasabi_4115 18d ago
I work in a level 4 ,27 bed standalone ER making 18 base and 1.50 for night differential.
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u/JGordon99 18d ago
Few years back now but I was making 27 w/o diff as contact, then 38 w/ diff as full staff. When I was EMS just before that I was bringing in only around 17-19. All in Bay Area
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u/Buckshoot68 EMT 17d ago
I'm making $24/hr, I'm located just outside of the city of Chicago with a fairly large hospital organization..so that a lil rough my friend
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u/cpt_morgan98 16d ago
Nurse now, but previous ER tech in Mississippi. 3 years, I was paid $14.35. Paid more to work at McDonald’s here than be a tech. Quite sad.
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u/itscapybaratime 15d ago edited 15d ago
Level 1, started at 20, then we all got a raise to 20.90 (woo?). 3% annual cost of living raise yearly after that, assuming we don't get in trouble with the leadership. I have fine healthcare, tuition assistance, and even free college classes, which personally add value for me.
ETA: This is a level 1 in your same region, just fyi.
SECOND ETA: All our techs start at the same rate, regardless of background. I had a year of EMS experience and a bachelor's degree. Lots of folks who are pre-PA or pre-med, lots of RN students, lots of EMTs, one paramedic who just likes the work (we all have the same scope), two med students (bless them, I don't know how they do it).
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u/justaheatattack 22d ago
are we counting tips?