Santa Monica paramedic and EMT salary, 2025
Santa Monica is a city in Los Angeles County. 14 people worked as paramedics and EMTs for Santa Monica 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 paramedic and EMT titles runs from $47,299 to $47,299.
What does Santa Monica pay its paramedics and EMTs?
Official pay range1
$47,299 to $47,299
from the lowest entry salary to the top of the highest paramedic and EMT title
Average total pay, full-year paramedics and EMTs1
Fewer than 5
14 paramedics and EMTs in all, 0 of them full-year: too few for an average.
- Median total pay
- Fewer than 5
- the middle paramedic and EMT: half earned more, half less
- Overtime
- Fewer than 5
- average per full-year paramedic and EMT
- Starting salary
- $47,299
- bottom of the 9200 Ambulance Operator range
- Average pay rank
- Fewer than 5
- too few full-year staff to rank
What does each paramedic and EMT title at Santa Monica 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
- 9200 Ambulance OperatorFewer than 5
official range average total pay, full year. "Fewer than 5" means too few full-year people in that title to show.
Firefighter-paramedic pay at Santa Monica
Counted on their own, kept out of the paramedic and EMT figures on this page. Firefighter-paramedics are firefighters whose title names paramedic duties. Range: the middle reported bottom and top of each group's official ranges. Pay: average total pay of full-year staff, overtime included.1
| Staff | People | Official range | Average total pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Firefighter-paramedics | 17 | $116,820 to $144,228 | $249,548 |
What do paramedics and EMTs earn around Santa Monica?
Average total pay of full-year paramedics and EMTs across Los Angeles County and across California. Santa Monica's own average isn't shown: fewer than 5 of its paramedics and EMTs worked the full year.1
- All employers in Los Angeles County$80,908
- All employers in California$92,008
Full-year paramedics and EMTs across Los Angeles County earned an average of $80,908 in 2025, $11,100 less than the California average.
Pension and health cover at Santa Monica
As reported by the city. Contributions are what the employer paid per full-year paramedic and EMT, on top of wages.1
- Pension formula
- 2% at 62
- the most common formula among Santa Monica's paramedics and EMTs
- 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 paramedic and EMT pay at Santa Monica
Why is there no average paramedic and EMT salary for Santa Monica?
14 people worked as paramedics and EMTs for Santa Monica 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 paramedic and EMT at Santa Monica?
The official range across Santa Monica's paramedic and EMT titles runs from $47,299 to $47,299 in 2025. For comparison, full-year paramedics and EMTs across Los Angeles County earned an average of $80,908.
What is the starting salary for a paramedic and EMT at Santa Monica?
$47,299 a year: the bottom of the official range for Santa Monica's 9200 Ambulance Operator title in 2025, as reported. Pay rises with steps and overtime.
How much does a firefighter-paramedic make at Santa Monica?
Full-year firefighter-paramedics at Santa Monica averaged $249,548 in total pay in 2025, overtime included, on an official range of $116,820 to $144,228.
What pension do paramedics and EMTs at Santa Monica get?
The most common pension formula among Santa Monica's paramedics and EMTs is 2% at 62, as reported by the city.
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Sources for the Santa Monica figures
Every person who held a paramedic and EMT position at Santa Monica 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 Santa Monica.