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Also, as much as I love NY, I'm pretty sure you qualify for the city's affordable housing lottery on the EMT base salary.

@NysEms2117 That's pretty expensive, though its also one of the most desirable neighborhoods in the city I think (West Village). My buddies and I pay a bit under $3000 for a three bedroom (so like 1k each) uptown in Harlem, for a kind of meh apartment. The outer boroughs are also cheaper. It's all still pretty expensive, but not $4,000 for a 1bed expensive.

I can't imagine paying $4,000 for a single even if I was making a physician's salary.
 
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rescue1 said:
Also, as much as I love NY, I'm pretty sure you qualify for the city's affordable housing lottery on the EMT base salary.

@NysEms2117 That's pretty expensive, though its also one of the most desirable neighborhoods in the city I think (West Village). My buddies and I pay a bit under $3000 for a three bedroom (so like 1k each) uptown in Harlem, for a kind of meh apartment. The outer boroughs are also cheaper. It's all still pretty expensive, but not $4,000 for a 1bed expensive.

I can't imagine paying $4,000 for a single even if I was making a physician's salary.
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i think its west village/soho, but its for him and his wife, he's got his series 7's and above though. So technically it'd be 2k each but ya know. his is 4 room 1 bd 1 bath though. my bad for personal question just trying to wrap my head around that whole thing.
 
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Haha no worries. I'm just procrastinating for a pharm test so I'm happy to blab about anything that isn't some strange flavor of antibiotic.
 
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Honestly, FDNY is the only reason that I'd move east from LA lol, and unless their single role EMTs make 10 an hour being told what to do by engine guys every call, it wouldn't be a step down for me lol, although i think NYC's cost of living makes my corner of LA look cheap(er) lol, plus they have this nasty thing called "winter"....so from the So Cal native looking to move even further south west for the climes, that's gonna be a pass for me lol ;)
 
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i was supposed to be placed out of the Manhattan parole office....thankfully somebody volunteered for it (idk why), that meant i would have been living in jersey... I refuse to live in the city, wayyy to expensive and wayyy to much sht happening for my liking. I will like Albany, very much :D.
 
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.Ahhhh yes, FDNY, the holy grail of EMS.... in New York City... and only in NYC...
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Honestly, FDNY is the only reason that I'd move east from LA lol, and unless their single role EMTs make 10 an hour being told what to do by engine guys every call, it wouldn't be a step down for me lol,
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actually most of their engine guys won't tell you what to do, they don't want to be there, and they are only first responders, so once you show it, it's your game.

I have known many former FDNY EMS people, and have worked with many (both super high ups and field staff)..... at the end of the day, it's just another job, and many still have side jobs that they work on their days off (or on their night shifts, when they should be ho. Many of the ambulance personnel are using it as a shortcut to the fire side (which, as mentioned, is 100% better). There used to be a website (http://www.fdnysucks.com/) that documented many of the issues, told by an unnamed FDNY paramedic, but it has (unfortunately) shut down.

although it's a little outdated, the content about this is pretty much the same: https://emtlife.com/threads/new-yorks-poorest.7686/

To be fair, FDNY does give you some of the best training available, and they do give you the ability to be more than just a regular ambulance EMT or paramedic.. They do give you some nice equipment to play with. When it's available, and when it's working.

But many of the issues in the previous link are still highly prevalent: http://www.gothamgazette.com/city/6839-killing-of-fdny-emt-spotlights-issues-for-unsung-profession

BTW, many to most of the employees at FDNY EMS live in the surrounding boroughs (they can't afford to live in manhattan), live with family, work copious amounts of OT to makes ends meet, or have three or four "roomates" who all sign the lease but they actually live in NJ, or long island and commute into work.
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I currently live upstate NY, working part-time as an EMT. I'll be finishing my paramedic course June/2017. I'd like to move to NYC this summer. I will be taking the upcoming EMT civil service test for FDNY, but I'd like to find a paramedic position outside of FDNY while I wait to hear back. Can anyone give me an idea of how difficult it may be to find a paramedic job in NYC?
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Get a job as a paramedic in new jersey, you'll make much more $$$$ run fewer BLS calls, and the cost of living will be much lower than in NYC. And if you still want to work for FDNY EMS, you will have a decent paying job to pay the bills while you wait to be called.
 
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@DrParasite is on the money for how FDNY EMS stands.

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@rescue1 I have a buddy that pays roughly 4k for a 1 bed 1 bath down on sullivan&houston, down by 6th ave... Is that average? I can't fathom that much money for rent lol
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That is not surprising - especially if it is in a nice new building. Funny enough, the Lower East Side used to be *really* cheap, but it is now "cool" (has been for a little while now) and thus is no longer affordable.

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Also, as much as I love NY, I'm pretty sure you qualify for the city's affordable housing lottery on the EMT base salary.
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That sounds right to me...I think you might also qualify for EITC and a number of other benefits, too, especially if you have dependents.

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unless their single role EMTs make 10 an hour being told what to do by engine guys every call, it wouldn't be a step down for me lol, although i think NYC's cost of living makes my corner of LA look cheap(er) lol
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Ahh, as @DrParasite says, the FDNY CFR-D guys don't really care very much about EMS - they'd be more than happy to let you take over. I can't tell you how many times I've seen them standing around a patient doing the stare of life until EMS shows up.
 
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@rescue1 would you happen to have an idea of the starting pay of a medic at Seniorcare?
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I don't know exactly, sorry. If I had to guess it would probably be somewhere between $20-24 an hour?

Like I said earlier, I'm in med school here, all my EMS connections are in Philadelphia. I think someone at my school works part time for one of the hospital EMS systems, I can ask him what he think the starting rate would be.
 
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Aaliyah said:
I currently live upstate NY, working part-time as an EMT. I'll be finishing my paramedic course June/2017. I'd like to move to NYC this summer. I will be taking the upcoming EMT civil service test for FDNY, but I'd like to find a paramedic position outside of FDNY while I wait to hear back. Can anyone give me an idea of how difficult it may be to find a paramedic job in NYC?
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@rescue1 would you happen to have an idea of the starting pay of a medic at Seniorcare?
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As long as you get your remac, it will not be hard at all.
Starting pay at Seniorcare, like all the privates in the city, would be somewhere in the 20-22/hr range.
 
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graycord said:
Starting pay at Seniorcare, like all the privates in the city, would be somewhere in the 20-22/hr range.
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Thanks for the info -- the hospitals' voluntary services are higher, right? Like $25-30?
 
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I know nothing of NYC EMS. Whats this voluntary and paid stuff

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I know nothing of NYC EMS. Whats this voluntary and paid stuff

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It is a nightmarishly bad setup, from a macro perspective

FDNY EMS runs 911, but there are also hospitals ("voluntaries") that participate as part of the 911 response system and are dispatched by FDNY. There are also volunteer agencies, some of which are part of the 911 system and others that aren't. Oh, and there are privates that do IFT, and some that do IFT and 911.

It is a mess and a half.


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Yeah, from what I can gather, Voluntaries =/= volunteers (and those still exist there too!) even though FDNY has jurisdiction over pretty much the whole city, some hospitals run their own ambulance programs and some private companies are also part of the 911 system but some aren't....but yet anyone with a scanner can "buff" a call, i.e. listen for FDNY to get a call, decide you wanna run it instead, and self dispatch to the scene....
 
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EpiEMS said:
Thanks for the info -- the hospitals' voluntary services are higher, right? Like $25-30?
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Yes, but now that Transcare is out of the game, I doubt any voluntary starts at less than 27.

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Here's a list of agencies.
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It's kind of a start, but that site hasn't been updated in years.
LICH is dead. Transcare is dead. NYHQ is dead. Lutheran EMS is much bigger now and doesn't use the same webpage anymore. And that's just off the top of my head and what I recognize, so be careful going through that.
 
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Yes, but now that Transcare is out of the game, I doubt any voluntary starts at less than 27.



It's kind of a start, but that site hasn't been updated in years.
LICH is dead. Transcare is dead. NYHQ is dead. Lutheran EMS is much bigger now and doesn't use the same webpage anymore. And that's just off the top of my head and what I recognize, so be careful going through that.
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Would you mind giving me a few places you'd recommend me applying. Keep in mind I have EMT experience but won't have any paramedic experience. Also I'll have NYC remac.
 
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Would you mind giving me a few places you'd recommend me applying. Keep in mind I have EMT experience but won't have any paramedic experience. Also I'll have NYC remac.
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Basically any and all of the privates. You're bound to get something.

I don't know where you'd wind up coming from or if travel would be an important factor, but there's Seniorcare, Midwood, Instacare in Brooklyn.
Priority One, RCA, Primary Care in Staten Island.
Citywide, Lifeline in the Bronx. There's a Seniorcare base there also.
Hunter, First Response, and RCA have bases in Queens, somewhere near Five Towns iirc.
 
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graycord said:
Basically any and all of the privates. You're bound to get something.

I don't know where you'd wind up coming from or if travel would be an important factor, but there's Seniorcare, Midwood, Instacare in Brooklyn.
Priority One, RCA, Primary Care in Staten Island.
Citywide, Lifeline in the Bronx. There's a Seniorcare base there also.
Hunter, First Response, and RCA have bases in Queens, somewhere near Five Towns iirc.
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Thank you very much
 
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