EMT Basic Max Pay in a Private Company

$9 at firstmedems
 
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VA Transport EMT said:
why the feck can't we get professional salaries? we are professional healthcare providers and our companies make enough to pay us a :censored::censored::censored::censored:ton more.
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Can you please point out what part of work that you do that make you professional? Also what special skills that you have that makes you hard to replace in 1 day. Once you do that i am sure you will be making "professional" salary.
 
Main reason I've turned down some jobs for private companies is due to the fact I'm making more at a casino doing the EMT thing. Just sucks having to suck down all this cigerate smoke.
 
Robb said:
Fair warning, your job situation won't change overnight with an EMT cert. it's not uncommon, especially in California, for people to be looking for a job for a year plus after finishing class, obviously there are exceptions to the rule and with your educational background you've definitely got a leg up but I'd hate for you to be mislead into thinking you'll be able to find work right after you finish class.

Honestly, if I'm reading your goals right I don't really see EMT being helpful in completing them but I also didn't read the entire thread, just the second page on tappatalk.
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Darn I didn't want to hear that. It seemed like getting a job would be easy. I want to work in a medical related field while I study for the NCLEX.

I think if I apply everywhere and with my nursing education I am bound to get a job pretty quick. It seems like EMT is the only field people will hire without experience.
 
Aprz again I really appreciate all your help. And I am partially posting now to make post 5 so I can reply to your message that I typed but it won't send.

Weird the system does not let you reply to a message but that's fine. I will be able to after I post this.
 
It really scares me that I'm going into a field that is much more serious than what I do now (lifeguarding) but pays $2/hr less.

This country has really messed up priorities :D

I know, I know, you're worth what you can leverage. But even still, when you have people's lives in your hands, the power (in certain circumstances) to legally declare someone not a human being any longer, and are such an important part of society, I feel like it warrants a little more than hamburger flippers.

But then again, teachers are in exactly the same rut, and I'd argue that good ones are worth a lot more than we pay 'em as well.
 
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Hey! I know its been forever since any of you have returned to this thread! Hope you all are succeeding in this filed of work or have moved on to better positions! Anyways I'm currently in school working on EMT-B through FootHill college and will be going into Fire after this. I wanted to reach out and say Thank You for your devotion and hard work! I know you don't make much in this profession and it means a lot that your there when I need you if I called 911! thats all i wanted to say! All the best to you all,

Christopher
 
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