Austin Travis County EMS hiring Paramedics and paying them as Basics

I'd rather go with the cold, hard numbers myself. I'm rapidly finding that institutional Kool-Aid doesn't beat a Keurig in the station.
 
marshmallow22 said:
Thanks for ALL of your assumptions about a system that you do not even work for. I had a good laugh. I can't believe that you would actually compare a metropolitan city, civil service, 3rd service provider to a private ambulance. Say what you want, but ATCEMS is here to stay, and not only that, but will continue to get bigger. Oh, and we also have medics making 100k +. How many times has AMR changed hands over the years, lost contracts to the fire department, or have even sold out their own employees to cut a deal with fire departments? Yeah, rather have the $15/hr job and not have to worry about private ambulance antics.
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I worked for AMR prior to the third service I work at now, lets just say. I could not afford the 401k, benefits or the wage at AMR.

Where I am now, I make 25k more a year than I used to, have a very good retirement and have good medical/dental insurance.

If I was an employee at Austin, I would feel very secure(job security) and well taken care. I would also feel beat into the ground after every shift haha, but financially happy non the less.
 
marshmallow22 said:
Thanks for ALL of your assumptions about a system that you do not even work for. I had a good laugh. I can't believe that you would actually compare a metropolitan city, civil service, 3rd service provider to a private ambulance. Say what you want, but ATCEMS is here to stay, and not only that, but will continue to get bigger. Oh, and we also have medics making 100k +. How many times has AMR changed hands over the years, lost contracts to the fire department, or have even sold out their own employees to cut a deal with fire departments? Yeah, rather have the $15/hr job and not have to worry about private ambulance antics.
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No one at Austin has the title of Field Medic and has a base salary over 100k do they? You are referring to officers correct?
 
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marshmallow22 said:
Thanks for ALL of your assumptions about a system that you do not even work for. I had a good laugh. I can't believe that you would actually compare a metropolitan city, civil service, 3rd service provider to a private ambulance. Say what you want, but ATCEMS is here to stay, and not only that, but will continue to get bigger. Oh, and we also have medics making 100k +. How many times has AMR changed hands over the years, lost contracts to the fire department, or have even sold out their own employees to cut a deal with fire departments? Yeah, rather have the $15/hr job and not have to worry about private ambulance antics.
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He was not being offensive, just crunching rough numbers. He never claimed his numbers were accurate.
 
Fish said:
I worked for AMR prior to the third service I work at now, lets just say. I could not afford the 401k, benefits or the wage at AMR.

Where I am now, I make 25k more a year than I used to, have a very good retirement and have good medical/dental insurance.

If I was an employee at Austin, I would feel very secure(job security) and well taken care. I would also feel beat into the ground after every shift haha, but financially happy non the less.
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Honestly...I would go back to AMR if they'd have me back. I'm already tired of the Kool-Aid.
 
Fish said:
No one at Austin has the title of Field Medic and has a base salary over 100k do they? You are referring to officers correct?
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Base salary, no, but tenure field medics and Captains with a good amount of OT can hit that mark.
 
marshmallow22 said:
How can you crunch #'s when you don't even know what the #'s are?
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Because, Marshmallow, he can take good assumptions based on quoted pay and hours and extrapolate that raw data into salaries, percentages, and the like.
 
Rocketmedic40 said:
Honestly...I would go back to AMR if they'd have me back. I'm already tired of the Kool-Aid.
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I would move before I worked for another Private, is there some good out there? I am sure there is, but I have worked for two and my opinion is such that I do not want to give it another shot.
 
Rocketmedic40 said:
Because, Marshmallow, he can take good assumptions based on quoted pay and hours and extrapolate that raw data into salaries, percentages, and the like.
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Pretty difficult to predict 401k's in this volatile market. Again, how many "layers of paint" does AMR have on their trucks?
 
I don't get the EMS concept of working crazy amounts of OT and then claiming that is a good paying service because you make $X a year.
 
ChaseZ33 said:
I don't get the EMS concept of working crazy amounts of OT and then claiming that is a good paying service because you make $X a year.
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We love to be sitting in ambulance for over a third of our lives
 
ChaseZ33 said:
I don't get the EMS concept of working crazy amounts of OT and then claiming that is a good paying service because you make $X a year.
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you know, I was going to say the same thing but deleted my post......

and Fish, if you work a 40 hour week, you still spend 1/4 of your life at work (including commute time)
 
DrParasite said:
you know, I was going to say the same thing but deleted my post......

and Fish, if you work a 40 hour week, you still spend 1/4 of your life at work (including commute time)
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Right, but I work a 24/48. Always over a third with OT, sometimes I feel like it is half
 
DrParasite said:
you know, I was going to say the same thing but deleted my post......

and Fish, if you work a 40 hour week, you still spend 1/4 of your life at work (including commute time)
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I only work 36 hours a week :P
 
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