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Are EMTs/Paramedics the most underpaid folks out there?
Posted on 4/23/23 at 7:28 am
Posted on 4/23/23 at 7:28 am
$15/hour to be the first responders to shootings, ODs, cardiac arrests, etc. They're often the difference between life and death and yet they paid almost minimum wage. I don't know how they do it.
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Posted on 4/23/23 at 7:29 am to yaboidarrell
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$15/hour to be the first responders to shootings,
Where?
Posted on 4/23/23 at 7:32 am to yaboidarrell
They are up there, but personal caretakers have a worse situation. They only make about 10-11hr and have to care for old people that they do not know !
Posted on 4/23/23 at 7:35 am to yaboidarrell
They’re still at $15/hr? I’d be surprised if that were the case. They should be $25/hr in current economy. They have a decent amount of training
Posted on 4/23/23 at 7:37 am to yaboidarrell
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This post was edited on 4/23/23 at 7:39 am
Posted on 4/23/23 at 7:42 am to yaboidarrell
Paramedics make around what nurses make.
EMT's are a different and have minimal training for their minimal pay.
I am not saying they are not underpaid, almost every profession today is underpaid compared to how workers were paid just a generation ago.
EMT's are a different and have minimal training for their minimal pay.
I am not saying they are not underpaid, almost every profession today is underpaid compared to how workers were paid just a generation ago.
Posted on 4/23/23 at 7:42 am to yaboidarrell
Resident doctors have entered the chat
Posted on 4/23/23 at 7:43 am to yaboidarrell
I don’t know what hospice people make, but it could be a million per hour and it isn’t enough.
Posted on 4/23/23 at 7:49 am to yaboidarrell
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Are EMTs/Paramedics the most underpaid folks out there?
Nope, it’s teachers, ugh I mean educators.
Posted on 4/23/23 at 7:51 am to yaboidarrell
Bro everything is underpaid
And money is fake
In the 1992 version of white men can’t jump they played the final game for a 5k prize
In the remake this year they play for 500k
1992 was only 40 years ago
And money is fake
In the 1992 version of white men can’t jump they played the final game for a 5k prize
In the remake this year they play for 500k
1992 was only 40 years ago
Posted on 4/23/23 at 7:56 am to yaboidarrell
I heard last night on Fox that rookie cops in NY only make $42,000/year
Posted on 4/23/23 at 8:01 am to yaboidarrell
One vote for Baton Rouge Police Officers.
20 years on the job and I barley scratch 60k, which is drastically higher than the vast majority of cops doing the heavy lifting on the front lines with 7 or fewer years.
Elected leadership takes advantage of the resiliency it takes to be a career Baton Rouge Police Officer. Most, if not all of us, work 3 to 5 side jobs that pay market value to provide private security. You have to be a logistical wizard to make it with a family, balancing time away from home after your full time efforts to make enough to have more than the poverty level.
The running joke is that most people wouldn’t go down some of the streets we do in the middle of the night for all the money in the world. We do it for pennies on the dollar. It’s been that way since 1865 in Baton Rouge.
The 13% raise we received during two separate increments in the past two years helped dissolve the 9% inflation this country has experienced.
20 years on the job and I barley scratch 60k, which is drastically higher than the vast majority of cops doing the heavy lifting on the front lines with 7 or fewer years.
Elected leadership takes advantage of the resiliency it takes to be a career Baton Rouge Police Officer. Most, if not all of us, work 3 to 5 side jobs that pay market value to provide private security. You have to be a logistical wizard to make it with a family, balancing time away from home after your full time efforts to make enough to have more than the poverty level.
The running joke is that most people wouldn’t go down some of the streets we do in the middle of the night for all the money in the world. We do it for pennies on the dollar. It’s been that way since 1865 in Baton Rouge.
The 13% raise we received during two separate increments in the past two years helped dissolve the 9% inflation this country has experienced.
This post was edited on 4/23/23 at 9:24 am
Posted on 4/23/23 at 9:01 am to yaboidarrell
Saw a story on the news a couple weeks ago that Opelousas firefighters got a raise from $9.50 to $10.50.
Posted on 4/23/23 at 9:17 am to yaboidarrell
You have basically two types of EMS services, public funded and private. The public services pay based on tax revenue taken in for said services, and some of the public services bill third party and MCare/Caid. The only way to bring those salaries up is to increase taxes, and no one wants more taxes. Then there’s private for profit. No tax revenue, it’s basically eat what you kill, it’s all third party billing, which are usually fixed rates. Yes you can lobby for increases in MCare/Caid, but those increases are far and few between, all the while fuel, supply costs rise unmitigated. Additionally, you can charge private insurance more, but they pay based on established rates, so you can balance bill the patient or you can lobby the insurance company for rate increases, again far and few between. Bottom line, it’s hard to raise EMS salaries to what they deserve.
Posted on 4/23/23 at 9:19 am to yaboidarrell
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$15/hour to be the first responders to shootings, ODs, cardiac arrests, etc
I’m not buying this. HS kids at McDonald’s make more than $15. Got a link?
Posted on 4/23/23 at 9:34 am to yaboidarrell
If you make captain in a fire department it's 85-90K a year
Posted on 4/23/23 at 9:43 am to yaboidarrell
I think people are confused and think EMT & Paramedic are interchangeable.
An EMT is entry level and provides basic services like CPR and basic first aid. they anen’t even allowed to start IVs. They also typically drive the ambulance while the paramedic is in the back working to stabilize a patient. Is $15/hour low for that, probably but it’s not way off for entry level.
Paramedics are more in line with medical professionals and they typically make around $30/hr but can make a good bit more.
An EMT is entry level and provides basic services like CPR and basic first aid. they anen’t even allowed to start IVs. They also typically drive the ambulance while the paramedic is in the back working to stabilize a patient. Is $15/hour low for that, probably but it’s not way off for entry level.
Paramedics are more in line with medical professionals and they typically make around $30/hr but can make a good bit more.
Posted on 4/23/23 at 9:52 am to yaboidarrell
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Are EMTs/Paramedics the most underpaid folks out there?
Medics make more than $15/hr, EMT-B school is like 3 months, so pay and skill set is a lot less
Fire Department based EMS in Texas major cities/Suburbs are making $65K for Fire/Medic
This post was edited on 4/23/23 at 9:58 am
Posted on 4/23/23 at 11:18 am to yaboidarrell
You could get a job at chic fil a and make as much or more than most EMTs.
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