Paramedic and EMT salaries by state and employer

What paramedics and EMTs earn at public ambulance services: what full-year staff actually earned, overtime included, next to the official pay range where the employer publishes one, with firefighter-paramedics ($188,869 on average in California) counted on their own. So far the site covers every California city, county, fire district and health care district with an ambulance service; in New York, the FDNY's Emergency Medical Service and Nassau County's police medics; in Utah, the cities, counties, fire districts and ambulance districts; in Kentucky, Louisville Metro EMS. Private ambulance companies aren't public employers, so they aren't included.

fiscal year 2025 dataNew York$82,409average total pay of full-year paramedics and EMTs14,146 paramedics and EMTs2 employer pagesSee New York2025 dataCalifornia$92,008average total pay of full-year paramedics and EMTs22,263 paramedics and EMTs69 employer pagesCompare every California employerfiscal years 2025 and 2026 dataUtah$96,368average total pay of full-year paramedics and EMTs3720 paramedics and EMTs33 employer pagesCompare every Utah employer2025 dataKentucky$111,116average total pay of full-year paramedics and EMTs4186 paramedics and EMTs1 employer pageSee Kentucky

Work in progress

Paramedic and EMT pay in more states, as we collect the data

This page will compare paramedic and EMT pay across states. For now it covers every California city, county, fire district and health care district with an ambulance service; in New York, the FDNY's Emergency Medical Service and Nassau County's police medics; in Utah, the cities, counties, fire districts and ambulance districts; in Kentucky, Louisville Metro EMS. Each state publishes public pay differently, so we add states one at a time, after checking their files.

Until then, each state's page has everything we've published so far.

Sources for the state figures

Total pay is gross wages before tax, overtime included, of paramedics and EMTs who worked roughly the full year. Each state's page explains its full-year rule.

  1. City of New York, Citywide Payroll Data (Fiscal Year); Nassau County Comptroller, Nassau Open Payroll, fiscal year 2025 (July 2024 to June 2025): wages of every paramedic and EMT position.
  2. State Controller's Office, Government Compensation in California, 2025: wages of every paramedic and EMT position.
  3. Transparent Utah, Office of the Utah State Auditor, the newest year each employer has published (fiscal years 2025 and 2026): wages of every paramedic and EMT position.
  4. Louisville Metro Government, Louisville Metro KY Employee Salary Data (Louisville Open Data), 2025: wages of every paramedic and EMT position.

How we read the data