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What you can do with Emergency Medical Services
Care in the first minutes. Paramedic and fire service careers.
- Careers
- 2
- Early career
- $62,000
- Mid-career
- $80,000
- Growing fast
- 1 of 2
How these numbers work: A major does not have its own salary. Early and mid-career pay is what people who hold this degree earn at the start of their careers and midway through them. Career pay comes from the 2 careers an Emergency Medical Services degree commonly leads to, and counts everyone in those jobs, including people who have been doing them for thirty years. The two answer different questions, which is why they do not match.
The New York Fed does not report Emergency Medical Services on its own. Its early and mid-career figures here are for Medical Technicians, the broader group it places this major in.
1 of 2 careers this degree leads to is projected to grow faster than average from 2024 to 2034. Of those, Paramedic has the most openings, about 4,900 a year.
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2 careers this degree leads to
Paramedic
$60,600Deliver advanced emergency care in the field: assessing patients, administering medications, and stabilizing life-threatening conditions before hospital arrival.
- Middle half of workers
- $49,660 to $73,470
- Growth
- Faster than average
- Openings a year
- 4,900
- Emergency Care
- Advanced Life Support
- Medication Administration
- Rapid Assessment
Firefighter
$59,280Respond when lives and property are at risk: fight fires, run rescues, and handle medical emergencies.
- Middle half of workers
- $44,490 to $77,250
- Growth
- About average
- Openings a year
- 27,100
Work-life56- Fire Suppression
- Emergency Response
- Physical Fitness
- Teamwork
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Where these pay figures come from
Early and mid-career pay is the median annual wage of full-time workers who hold a bachelor's degree in that major, ages 22 to 27 and ages 35 to 45, from 2024 data. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (IPUMS). Published as Outcomes by Major by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Career pay is the annual wage of everyone working in that occupation, not only recent graduates, so it includes people who have done the job for decades. The middle half is the 25th to the 75th percentile. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET OnLine (median and percentile annual wages May 2025; employment projections 2024-2034).
All figures are national. What you earn depends on where you work, who you work for, and how far you take the degree.