Gold Ridge Fire Protection District firefighter salary, 2025
Gold Ridge Fire Protection District is a fire protection district in Sonoma County. 11 people worked as firefighters for Gold Ridge Fire Protection District in 2025. Fewer than 5 of them worked the full year, so there is no average that wouldn't describe individual people. The official range for its firefighter titles runs from $88,533 to $103,240.
What does Gold Ridge Fire Protection District pay its firefighters?
Official pay range1
$88,533 to $103,240
from the lowest entry salary to the top of the highest firefighter title
Average total pay, full-year firefighters1
Fewer than 5
11 firefighters in all, 0 of them full-year: too few for an average.
- Median total pay
- Fewer than 5
- the middle firefighter: half earned more, half less
- Overtime
- Fewer than 5
- average per full-year firefighter
- Starting salary
- $88,533
- bottom of the Firefighter Step 1 range
- Average pay rank
- Fewer than 5
- too few full-year staff to rank
What does each firefighter title at Gold Ridge Fire Protection District pay?
Each bar is the official range for one title, lowest first. The dot marks the average total pay of full-year staff in that title, where at least 5 people stand behind it.1
- Firefighter Step 1Fewer than 5
- Firefighter Step 2Fewer than 5
official range average total pay, full year. "Fewer than 5" means too few full-year people in that title to show.
Fire engineer and captain pay at Gold Ridge Fire Protection District
Ranks above firefighter, kept out of the firefighter figures on this page. Each rank's name leads to its statewide overview. Range: the middle reported bottom and top of each rank's official range. Pay: average total pay of full-year staff, overtime included.1
What do firefighters earn around Gold Ridge Fire Protection District?
Average total pay of full-year firefighters across Sonoma County and across California. Gold Ridge Fire Protection District's own average isn't shown: fewer than 5 of its firefighters worked the full year.1
- All employers in Sonoma County$166,351
- All employers in California$186,123
Full-year firefighters across Sonoma County earned an average of $166,351 in 2025, $19,772 less than the California average.
Average firefighter pay in Sonoma County compared to nearby counties
Average total pay of full-year firefighters across all employers in each county that borders Sonoma County, and how much more or less it pays.1
- Napa County$211,876 average, 2 employers$45,525 more than Sonoma County
- Contra Costa County$206,299 average, 6 employers$39,948 more than Sonoma County
- Solano County$199,614 average, 5 employers$33,263 more than Sonoma County
- Marin County$198,701 average, 6 employers$32,350 more than Sonoma County
- Lake County$100,238 average, 2 employers$66,113 less than Sonoma County
- Mendocino County$98,642 average, 2 employers$67,709 less than Sonoma County
Pension and health cover at Gold Ridge Fire Protection District
As reported by the agency. Contributions are what the employer paid per full-year firefighter, on top of wages.1
- Pension formula
- 2.7% at 57
- the most common formula among Gold Ridge Fire Protection District's firefighters
- Employer pension contribution
- Fewer than 5
- average per year
- Health, dental and vision
- Fewer than 5
- average paid by the employer per year
Questions about firefighter pay at Gold Ridge Fire Protection District
Why is there no average firefighter salary for Gold Ridge Fire Protection District?
11 people worked as firefighters for Gold Ridge Fire Protection District in 2025, but fewer than 5 of them worked the full year. Every figure on Public Paycheck covers at least 5 people, so none describes one person.
What is the pay range for a firefighter at Gold Ridge Fire Protection District?
The official range across Gold Ridge Fire Protection District's firefighter titles runs from $88,533 to $103,240 in 2025. For comparison, full-year firefighters across Sonoma County earned an average of $166,351.
What is the starting salary for a firefighter at Gold Ridge Fire Protection District?
$88,533 a year: the bottom of the official range for Gold Ridge Fire Protection District's Firefighter Step 1 title in 2025, as reported. Pay rises with steps and overtime.
How much does a fire captain make at Gold Ridge Fire Protection District?
Full-year captains at Gold Ridge Fire Protection District averaged $171,676 in total pay in 2025, overtime included, on an official range of $127,694 to $142,493.
What pension do firefighters at Gold Ridge Fire Protection District get?
The most common pension formula among Gold Ridge Fire Protection District's firefighters is 2.7% at 57, as reported by the agency.
More salaries in Sonoma County
- Santa Rosa$199,701 average total pay
- Petaluma$176,763 average total pay
- Sonoma County Fire District$155,875 average total pay
- Sonoma Valley Fire District$155,812 average total pay
- Rancho Adobe Fire Protection District$126,948 average total pay
- Cloverdale Fire Protection District$96,742 average total pay
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Sources for the Gold Ridge Fire Protection District figures
Every person who held a firefighter position at Gold Ridge Fire Protection District at any point in 2025 counts toward the headcount. Pay figures use only people who worked roughly the full year: those whose regular pay reached at least 90% of the bottom of their official range. Total pay is gross wages before tax, including overtime, lump sums and other pay. Averages lead; the median total pay is the middle person's, with half above and half below, and is less pulled by a few people with very high pay. Every figure covers at least 5 people.
- State Controller's Office, Government Compensation in California, 2025: positions, official pay ranges, wages, pension formula and employer contributions as reported by Gold Ridge Fire Protection District.