New York paramedic and EMT salaries by employer, 2025
4,146 people worked as paramedics and EMTs for New York City and Nassau County in fiscal year 2025 (July 2024 to June 2025). Those who worked the full year earned an average of $82,409, overtime included. More New York employers follow as we collect their pay data.
What is the average paramedic and EMT salary in New York?
- Paramedics and EMTs
- 4,146
- 3,496 of them worked the full year
- Employers
- 2
- with 5 or more paramedics and EMTs
- Median total pay
- $75,928
- the middle paramedic and EMT: half earned more, half less
- Overtime
- $13,707
- average per full-year paramedic and EMT
What stands out in New York paramedic and EMT pay
FDNY paramedics average $102,498, EMTs $70,713.
Full-year Emergency Medical Specialists at the Fire Department, overtime included. 2,953 people worked as FDNY EMTs and 1,017 as FDNY paramedics in fiscal year 2025.1
EMS supervisors average $127,230.
The FDNY's Supervising Emergency Medical Service Specialists are counted on their own, outside the EMT and paramedic figures: 848 positions.1
Nassau County's police medics average $158,162.
They work for the county's Police Department on its ambulances. 131 of 176 worked the full year in 2025.3
Do paramedics make more than EMTs in New York?
The 2 New York employers covered so far, fiscal year 2025 (July 2024 to June 2025). Pay: full-year staff, overtime included.1,3
| Staff | Positions | Full year | Average total pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| EMTs | 2,953 | 2,439 | $70,713 |
| Paramedics | 1,017 | 926 | $102,498 |
| Police medics | 176 | 131 | $158,162 |
| All of them | 4,146 | 3,496 | $82,409 |
| Supervisors | 848 | 599 | $127,230 |
Supervisors are counted on their own, outside every figure above them.
Which New York jobs count as paramedics and EMTs here, and which don't?
These figures cover the FDNY's Emergency Medical Service and the Nassau County Police Department's police medics, from each employer's own payroll file. We decided each title by hand.
Counted as paramedics and EMTs
- FDNY Emergency Medical Specialists. EMTs and paramedics, every pay step.
- Nassau County police medics. They provide advanced life support on the county police ambulances; their title doesn't say paramedic or EMT, so they're shown on their own.4
Shown separately or left out
- FDNY EMS supervisors. In the table above, not in the EMT and paramedic figures. Deputy chiefs and trainees in the EMS academy are left out.
- Seasonal and extra-help EMTs. Suffolk County's seasonal EMTs at its parks and Broome County's extra-help paramedics aren't counted.
- Private and volunteer ambulance services, and hospital ambulances. They aren't in any payroll file we use.
Questions about paramedic and EMT pay in New York
How much do EMTs make in NYC?
Full-year EMTs at the FDNY averaged $70,713 in fiscal year 2025, overtime included. The city's current official range for the title runs from $39,386 to $59,534.
How much does an FDNY paramedic make?
Full-year paramedics at the FDNY averaged $102,498 in fiscal year 2025, overtime included. The city's current official range for the title runs from $53,891 to $75,872.
How much do Nassau County police medics make?
Full-year police medics at the Nassau County Police Department averaged $158,162 in 2025, overtime included.
Sources for the New York paramedic and EMT figures
Every person who held a paramedic and EMT position at any point in fiscal year 2025 (July 2024 to June 2025) counts toward the headcount. New York City's pay figures use only people still employed at the end of June 2025 who worked at least 90% of a full year's regular hours at their title's standard week. The other employers' files have no hours, so their figures use full-time staff who held the same title the year before and earned at least 90% of that year's pay (Nassau County). Total pay is gross wages before tax, including overtime, lump sums and other pay. Every figure covers at least 5 people.
- City of New York, Citywide Payroll Data (Fiscal Year): titles, base salaries, regular pay, overtime and other pay of every city employee, fiscal year 2025 (July 2024 to June 2025).
- City of New York, Department of Citywide Administrative Services, Civil Service Titles: official minimum and maximum pay per title, current list (2026).
- Nassau County Comptroller, Nassau Open Payroll: title, full- or part-time status, regular pay, overtime, longevity, shift differential, termination pay and other pay of every county employee in 2025, and in 2024 to see who held the same title a year earlier.
- New York State Senate, Bill S3100 (2021), sponsor memo: Nassau County's police medics provide advanced life support emergency medical care and respond to calls by ambulance.