Nassau County paramedic and EMT salary, 2025
Nassau County's police medics work for the county's Police Department and provide advanced life support emergency care on its ambulances.2 Their title doesn't say paramedic or EMT, so they're shown as police medics. 176 people worked as paramedics and EMTs for Nassau County in 2025. Those who worked the full year earned an average of $158,162, overtime included.
What is the average paramedic and EMT salary at Nassau County?
Based on the 131 of 176 paramedics and EMTs who worked the full year.
- Median total pay
- $145,831
- the middle paramedic and EMT: half earned more, half less
- Overtime
- $34,027
- average per full-year paramedic and EMT
- Highest-paid title
- $158,162
- Police Medic, average total pay
- New York average
- $82,409
- average total pay at all 2 employers
What does each paramedic and EMT title at Nassau County pay?
Each row is one title, from trainee to supervisor. The dot marks the average total pay of full-year staff in that title, where at least 5 people stand behind it.1 This employer's pay file has no official pay ranges, so none are shown.
- Police Medic$158,162
average total pay, full year. "Fewer than 5" means too few full-year people in that title to show.
Does Nassau County pay paramedics and EMTs more than other New York employers?
Average total pay of full-year paramedics and EMTs: Nassau County next to every New York employer together.1
- Nassau County$158,162
- All employers in New York$82,409
Full-year paramedics and EMTs at Nassau County earned $75,753 more than the New York average.
Questions about paramedic and EMT pay at Nassau County
What is the average paramedic and EMT salary at Nassau County?
Paramedics and EMTs at Nassau County who worked the full year earned an average of $158,162 in 2025, overtime included. The middle paramedic and EMT earned $145,831: half earned more, half less.
How much overtime do paramedics and EMTs at Nassau County earn?
Full-year paramedics and EMTs were paid an average of $34,027 in overtime in 2025. The middle one was paid $23,226: a few people with a lot of overtime pull the average up.
More public salaries at Nassau County
Sources for the Nassau County figures
Every person who held a paramedic and EMT position at Nassau County at any point in 2025 counts toward the headcount. Pay figures use only full-time staff who held the same title in 2024 and 2025, received no termination pay in 2025, and whose 2025 regular pay reached at least 90% of their 2024 regular pay. The county's file has no hours or hire dates, so this is the closest sign of a full year. 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.
- 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.