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Emergency medical technician salary

Open emergency medical technician jobs post a median of $24 an hour, with the middle half paying $20.75–$26.75: about $49,900 a year full time. Measured from 182 jobs at 81 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$24
Median posted /hr
$21–$27
Middle half /hr
$49,900
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$21.38
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Emergency medical technician jobs

What emergency medical technicians are paid

Each bar counts the open jobs posting an hourly rate in its step of pay (a range at its midpoint). The middle half of employers' rates is in the darker color.

Posted hourly rates of 182 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $11.41, the highest $46.05.

Posted on open jobs

$20.75–$26.75/hr

Middle half of 119 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $24. 34% of the 528 open emergency medical technician jobs state an hourly rate. 4 more state an "up to" ceiling, a weekly travel rate, a per-visit fee, or a rate far from the rest (a differential read as pay), left out.

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Emergency medical technician pay by employer

What each employer posts for emergency medical technicians, the employers with the most jobs stating pay first. An employer with at least 5 such jobs has a page of its own with every range it posts.

EmployerMedian postedPosted rangeJobs stating pay
UPMC$24.25$18.19–$30.4012
Inspira Health$28$22.44–$33.629
NORCAL Ambulance$24$20–$27.067
Total Access Urgent Care$17.50$17–$187
Urgent Care Group$17.50$17–$187
Samaritan Health Services$26.75$21.34–$34.246
Hackensack Meridian Health$24.75$24.79–$26.855
Northwell Health$33$31.06–$34.274
Carilion Clinic$24$20.10–$28.144
DocGo$23.50$17–$30.504
Providence$20$16.50–$33.164
Superior Air-Ground Ambulance Service$18$16.80–$18.404
Emanate Health$28.75$23–$34.503
Advocate Health$27.25$21.85–$32.803
Capital Health$25.50$22.20–$28.863
Mary Washington Healthcare$25$20.91–$29.283
CommonSpirit Health$24.25$11.41–$37.653
Rochester Regional Health$22.75$20–$28.503
Sanford Health$22.50$16.50–$283
Gundersen Health System$19$17.93–$19.053
UMass Memorial Health$34.50$29.35–$39.532
RWJBarnabas Health$28$23.85–$36.312
AtlantiCare$27.75$23–$34.042
Beth Israel Lahey Health$27.75$23.25–$32.302
South Shore Health$27$22.20–$31.752
AdventHealth$26.75$20.58–$32.922
Procare Ambulance of Maryland$26$18–$342
Fairview Health Services$25.50$20.60–$31.302
Renown Health$25.25$20.68–$30.132
Valley Health (Virginia)$25.25$20.12–$30.182
Inova$24.75$18.44–$31.172
Trinity Health$23.75$17.36–$32.052
NaphCare$23.50$20.90–$26.122
Harney District Hospital$22.75$18.29–$27.632
Baptist Health South Florida$22.25$19.44–$25.272
Erickson Senior Living$22$19.75–$242
MTI Ambulance$21.75$20.50–$232
Carle Health$21.50$16.21–$26.762
Ascension$21$17.71–$24.852
Superior Mobile Health$21$17–$252

Median of each employer's own jobs (a range at its midpoint), and the lowest and highest rate it posts. Jobs stating pay link to the employer's open jobs.

Emergency medical technician pay by state

States where at least 8 open jobs from 3 employers state an hourly rate, highest median first. Each opens the state's own page, with its towns and employers.

StateMedian postedMiddle halfBLS medianJobs
New York$31$25.50–$32.25$23.27 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)15
Massachusetts$27$24.75–$27.75$24.15 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)9
New Jersey$26.25$25.25–$27$25.78 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)25
Virginia$24.75$24.25–$25.25$21.84 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)12
California$24.50$22.50–$27.75$22.30 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)17
Pennsylvania$24.25$18.25–$25$20.82 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)15
Minnesota$23.75$21.75–$26$23.12 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)9
Illinois$20.75$19.25–$21.50$20.32 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)8
Wisconsin$19.75$18.25–$21.50$20.70 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)9
Missouri$19$17.50–$20.75$20.27 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)17

Median and middle half of employers' rates in the state. BLS medians are for the occupation's main SOC code in the state (May 2025).

Night shift emergency medical technician pay

Where one employer posts both night and other emergency medical technician jobs in the same state (5 such employers and states), the night jobs post the same base rate as the rest (the median gap is $0): most employers state their night differential apart from the base pay, so check the posting for it.

Employer, stateNight jobs, medianOther jobs, median
Inspira Health, NJ$28 (6)$28 (3)
UPMC, PA$24.25 (1)$24.50 (8)
Emanate Health, CA$28.75 (2)$28.75 (1)
UPMC, NY$20 (1)$20 (2)
Cherry County Hospital and Clinic, NE$17.75 (1)$17.75 (1)

A job counts as a night job when its title names nights ("Nights", "NOC", "7p-7a"). Jobs in brackets.

Best-paid open emergency medical technician jobs

The open jobs posting the highest hourly rates tonight, at most two from one employer.

Every open job: Emergency medical technician jobs

What BLS measures

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys what people employed in the occupation earn, at every level of experience. A posting advertises what a new hire is offered, so the two measure different things.

Hourly wages, BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, national. Each figure opens its BLS page.
BLS occupation10th pct25th pctMedian75th pct90th pctEmployed
Emergency Medical Technicians (29-2042)$16.41 (source: BLS OEWS, Emergency Medical Technicians, opens in a new tab)$18.25 (source: BLS OEWS, Emergency Medical Technicians, opens in a new tab)$21.38 (source: BLS OEWS, Emergency Medical Technicians, opens in a new tab)$24.09 (source: BLS OEWS, Emergency Medical Technicians, opens in a new tab)$30.05 (source: BLS OEWS, Emergency Medical Technicians, opens in a new tab)180,510 (source: BLS OEWS, Emergency Medical Technicians, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($24) is $2.62 above the BLS median ($21.38 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Emergency Medical Technicians, opens in a new tab)). Posted ranges run from a new hire's rate to an experienced one's, and their midpoint is counted here.

Emergency medical technician salary: common questions

How much does an emergency medical technician make an hour?

Open emergency medical technician jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $24, with the middle half between $20.75–$26.75 (182 jobs from 81 employers, each employer's advertised range counted once). Postings advertise a base rate, usually before shift differentials and bonuses. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics measured a median of $21.38/hr ($44,470 a year) for emergency medical technicians in May 2025.

How much does an emergency medical technician make a year?

At the posted median of $24 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $49,900, and the middle half to $43,200 to $55,600. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states.

Which states pay emergency medical technicians the most?

By the median hourly rate open jobs post: New York ($31), Massachusetts ($27) and New Jersey ($26.25). The lowest: Missouri ($19), Wisconsin ($19.75) and Illinois ($20.75). Each state's page breaks its pay down by town and employer.

Which employers pay emergency medical technicians the most?

Among employers stating a rate on at least 5 open jobs: Inspira Health ($28), Samaritan Health Services ($26.75) and Hackensack Meridian Health ($24.75). The employer table lists the 40 employers with the most jobs stating pay.

Do night shift emergency medical technicians earn more?

Not in the base rate employers post: where one employer posts both night and other emergency medical technician jobs in the same state (5 such employers and states), the median gap is $0. Most state their night differential separately in the posting.

Where do these figures come from?

From the pay CareJobs.Now's open jobs state, read every night from each employer's own job board: 182 of 528 open emergency medical technician jobs (34%) state an hourly rate. No pay is estimated for a job that states none, "up to" ceilings and weekly travel rates are left out, and each employer's advertised range counts once in the median, so no single employer sets it.

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Sources and method

Only pay a job states is used: a plain hourly or yearly figure or range in US dollars, read from the job's own posting. A range counts at its midpoint. In the median and the middle half each employer's advertised range counts once, so an employer posting one range in many towns does not set the figure; an employer's own figures count its jobs one by one. "Up to" ceilings, weekly travel rates and rates under a third or over three times the occupation's median are left out. The yearly estimate is the hourly rate times 2,080 hours (40 a week). A job counts under its occupation and every occupation above it, and under every state it is open in. A page exists while at least 8 jobs from 3 employers state a rate. BLS figures are as published.
  1. CareJobs.Now job board: the pay open jobs state, read nightly from each employer's own careers site, published October 24, 2026
  2. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: Emergency Medical Technicians (SOC 29-2042), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Emergency Medical Technicians by state, published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Emergency Medical Technicians (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

CareJobs.Now. (2026). Emergency medical technician salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/emt

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