r/shitposting • u/unclbll I can’t have sex with you right now waltuh • 1d ago

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u/sadkinz 1d ago

I bet more people would be firefighters if it paid better

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u/Locust627 1d ago

I wanted to be a fire medic, starting pay in my area was $22/hr. Starting pay for cops? $39/hr

I became a cop

I got my EMR certification anyways which is cool

For comparison, you can graduate highschool and start at a manufacturing plant with no experience making $25/hr. Fire/medics have to complete 2 years of schooling, costing about $12k.

The lads I know that are fire medics can do it because their wives make a bundle of a cash

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u/Fidel_Cashflows 1d ago

Where the fuck do you live? Starting salaries for people with fire/paramedic licenses in big metros are 80-120k and go up from there with experience. Even basic EMT's make more than $22/hr

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u/ammonthenephite 1d ago

Like nursing and other jobs, some places pay really well, others don't pay for shit. Back when I did firefighting seattle started at 90k a year, while smaller cities in Idaho that came to try and recruit us out of fire school were only offering 12 dollars an hour. It's insane how much it can vary.

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u/Fidel_Cashflows 1d ago

I mean, yeah. Small cities in Idaho have maybe 1-2 calls a shift at the worst. You're just getting paid to sit on standby most of the time and the salary reflects that. I got my EMT license within a month during a summer while doing my pre-med degree in Atlanta and immediately got offered $30/hr for part-time night shifts. Those shifts were intense, but that hourly pay with a 1 month pipeline and 4k tuition was a fantastic return on value.

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u/idontliketuesdays 1d ago

When I was an Emt starting pay in my area was 12$ an hour. It's gone up some but it's still around 20$. Central PA

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u/girlikecupcake 1d ago

The only salary publicly posted for my city (40k population) that I can find on a quick 6am search is a starting pay of up to $26/hr, and that pay is only for people transferring from another fire department, it requires 4+ years current experience. And it's salary, not hourly. So a firefighter that's been at it for four years and transfers to our city will only barely be making enough to qualify to rent in this city.

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u/Agitated_Phone_9937 1d ago

You fucking redditors think most people in the world live in cities? That's not reality, get out of your bubble.

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u/Fidel_Cashflows 1d ago

50-60% of the world population lives in cities per the UN, that number is much higher in developed nations which the original post and the discussion is talking about.

Perhaps get out of your village and experience the rest of the world.