South San Francisco paramedic and EMT salary, 2025
South San Francisco is a city in San Mateo County. 17 people worked as paramedics and EMTs for South San Francisco 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 $46,218 to $56,202.
What does South San Francisco pay its paramedics and EMTs?
Official pay range1
$46,218 to $56,202
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
17 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
- $46,218
- bottom of the Emergency Medical Technician range
- Average pay rank
- Fewer than 5
- too few full-year staff to rank
What does each paramedic and EMT title at South San Francisco 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
- Emergency Medical TechnicianFewer 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 South San Francisco
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 | 39 | $97,718 to $118,789 | $240,483 |
What do paramedics and EMTs earn around South San Francisco?
Average total pay of full-year paramedics and EMTs across San Mateo County and across California. South San Francisco's own average isn't shown: fewer than 5 of its paramedics and EMTs worked the full year.1
- All employers in California$92,008
What do paramedics and EMTs earn at employers near South San Francisco?
South San Francisco has no average of its own. These are the closest employers that report one, in San Mateo County and the counties next to it, with their figure for emt operators where they have one. They're other employers' figures, not an estimate of its pay.1
- BerkeleyAlameda County, 2025$129,028all paramedics and EMTs, mostly paramedic
- OaklandAlameda County, 2025$98,710emt
Average total pay of full-year staff, overtime included. Each employer's own year.
Questions about paramedic and EMT pay at South San Francisco
Why is there no average paramedic and EMT salary for South San Francisco?
17 people worked as paramedics and EMTs for South San Francisco 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 South San Francisco?
The official range across South San Francisco's paramedic and EMT titles runs from $46,218 to $56,202 in 2025.
What is the starting salary for a paramedic and EMT at South San Francisco?
$46,218 a year: the bottom of the official range for South San Francisco's Emergency Medical Technician title in 2025, as reported. Pay rises with steps and overtime.
How much does a firefighter-paramedic make at South San Francisco?
Full-year firefighter-paramedics at South San Francisco averaged $240,483 in total pay in 2025, overtime included, on an official range of $97,718 to $118,789.
More salaries in San Mateo County
- Colma Fire Protection Districtparamedic and EMT pay
- Highest paramedic and EMT salaries in CaliforniaThe best-paying employers, ranked
- Police officer salaries at South San Francisco$208,917 average total pay
- 911 dispatcher salaries at South San Francisco$155,592 average total pay
- Water operator salaries at South San Francisco$152,915 average total pay
- Firefighter salaries at South San Francisco$240,483 average total pay
- Librarian salaries at South San FranciscoPay by title
- Teacher salaries in San Mateo CountyEvery school district's salary schedule
Sources for the South San Francisco figures
Every person who held a paramedic and EMT position at South San Francisco 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 South San Francisco.