- 9,736
- 1,174
- 113
Well, it could be the low pay relative to work and cost of living, the asinine staffing policies that hold good people back or having to swim in the seas of Kool-Aid...
They start EMTs higher than most places start Paramedics at. A starting salary in the low 40s for a job that requires less than 200 hours to obtain the required certification is hardly low pay. With their step increases it doesn't take super long to get into the 50s and even 60s as an EMT. Plus housing is far from unaffordable unless you want to live in downtown Austin. Their schedules are changing as well. Yea it's busy but 24 hour shifts are going by the wayside in favor of 12 hour shifts for the busy stations. They don't work any more hours than anyone else in EMS and many from other agencies have to work extra hours to make what they make as a base salary.
I don't work there so I've got nothing invested in the conversation and frankly I don't care but it's not right to spread false information just because you don't agree with the way they higher people into their agency.
That's not to say that they don't have their issues, every agency does, but they're actively working to fix their problems and better the system. It's not like the problems are going unrecognized or there's no action or plan to fix them. Some things you just can't fix overnight.