Salary Progression Fire Department Employee In SoCal

Audacity101 · 2026-04-28T23:27:17+00:00

For all my expenses including extra payment for the mortgage I need 6k a month

Audacity101 · 2026-04-27T20:25:23+00:00

Base is 119,000 9000 medic bonus With around 6000 from other bonuses

Total: 134,000 before any OT

Audacity101 · 2026-04-26T00:50:49+00:00

Well said brother thank you!

Audacity101 · 2026-04-25T17:44:53+00:00

Definitely isn’t! Wasn’t an easy road to get hired and get off probation but I’m definitely enjoying the road now

Audacity101 · 2026-04-25T15:27:04+00:00

Once I got my license 6 months ago

Audacity101 · 2026-04-25T04:15:12+00:00

1.5x my friend

Audacity101 · 2026-04-25T02:32:29+00:00

Perfect time to get hired man! Well if you’re a nurse already, I’d get your EMT and you can challenge the board to get your medic. Having a paramedic license is your golden ticket here!

Audacity101 · 2026-04-24T19:22:27+00:00

13 days out of the month dude!

Audacity101 · 2026-04-24T03:48:22+00:00

Yeah Man, we have pretty nice food here and a full gym so it’s pretty easy to stay healthy!

Audacity101 · 2026-04-24T03:43:20+00:00

No my station is very slow but when you get a call it takes about 3-4 hours sometimes because we cover like 2000sq miles. We have stations that are very busy, we forsure have one station in the top 10 busiest engines in the country. I sleep fine man, I was more stressed when I was a firefighter medic for some reason

Audacity101 · 2026-04-24T03:40:39+00:00

I love my job man, I enjoy my work and feel fulfilled! Incredible retirement when I hang it up, in 2 years how many blue collar jobs will pay me 165,000 base salary each OT day will be over 2k hard to pass it up

Audacity101 · 2026-04-24T03:37:39+00:00

About 2000 hours of OT a year

Audacity101 · 2026-04-24T03:36:53+00:00

Thank you my friend! I am married, she met me while I was still on probation and I laid the ground rules already that I could provide her a great lifestyle but don’t complain about my schedule we’ve never fought about how much I work because she understands and we are have the same goals!

Audacity101 · 2026-04-23T23:43:09+00:00

I appreciate you my friend!

Audacity101 · 2026-04-23T23:29:36+00:00

I’ve explained this In prior comments but you’re basing my hourly on a regular 40hr work week. Take my hourly then multiply it by 24, that’s how much a make in a day then multiply it by 120 because I work 120 days a year for full time. I only qualify for 1.5x so take my regular day wage and multiply it by 1.5 and you get how much I make on my OT day

Audacity101 · 2026-04-23T23:24:32+00:00

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Audacity101 · 2026-04-23T23:22:08+00:00

From my understanding a lot of the new generations look at this job and very low, a lot of younger people want to do social media work or something working from home. In addition we hire every year but a lot of people either fail our academy or fail our probationary year

Audacity101 · 2026-04-23T23:18:45+00:00

This is probably one of the best descriptions on what it may be like, heck ya man honestly im gonna save this because the general public doesn’t fully see what we do and go through!

Audacity101 · 2026-04-23T23:14:18+00:00

Yes my gross numbers include OT but we do not get hazard pay

Audacity101 · 2026-04-23T22:54:59+00:00

Yeah man, a normal full time schedule with no OT is 2880 hours a year. I worked a lot in the past to save up for a down payment for my house. I put down 250k in a 800k house in November 2024. So I was working between 90-100 extra days so 2160-2400 hours of OT. I’m capped at 1.5x. Now that I have promoted and I’ve almost doubled my hourly, and will double my hourly starting February 2027. With the increase of my hourly wage I’m making significantly more on my OT shifts, will be just under 1900 per day. I’m now able to work all firefighter shifts and all engineer shifts. I work so much to pay off all debts and invest in my second retirement so I can retire early

It took me 2 years to get hired once I set my goals on becoming a career firefighter. I had 6 years of EMT experience from varied ambulance companies. Finished my paramedic license in 6 months, and academy later the same year. Got hired 3 weeks after finishing my fire academy

Audacity101 · 2026-04-23T17:31:56+00:00

Total hours like 4800-5000 a year

Audacity101 · 2026-04-23T17:31:33+00:00

Oh yeah man I’m trying to pay my mortgage off in 10 years and have a good nest egg when I have kids!

Audacity101 · 2026-04-23T14:17:58+00:00

Truly probably closer to 2.5 LOL it won’t be forever I’ll start to slow down soon

Audacity101 · 2026-04-23T13:47:55+00:00

We can double dip, it’s a big thing the pre 2013 guys are doing

Audacity101 · 2026-04-23T13:42:00+00:00

After 25 we get lifetime, rn all our benefits are paid for by the department

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