• ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world
      15·
      5 months ago

      EMT; I’ve heard that I’m about to get a raise to $17/hr but I think it may just be a carrot to keep me there (currently make $16).

      • brygphilomena@lemmy.world
        7·
        5 months ago

        It’s so fucked. I know there are different levels, but the McDonald’s out here in California starts at $20/hr.

        • ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world
          3·
          5 months ago

          Yep, I could walk into a McDonald’s here and earn at least the same depending on the position. I knew that going into it though.

    • grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world
      10·
      5 months ago

      This right here. I took an EMT course at the local community college in 1999, then learned that the pay was minimum wage. Never got a job as an EMT because I needed more money to live.

    • Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca
      21·
      4 months ago

      Been this guy in a place where we were even written out of labor laws and started in the early 90’s. When I started I made $6.50/hr and worked 168 hrs per two week rotation as an EMT. As. paramedic after I paid for my own education I got a raise to $8. It was brutal and we were the highest paid in our area. Some were getting $0.60/hr standby and $50 per call in rural areas where you would at that time get a call or two a week.

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
        3·
        4 months ago

        $50 per call but you can bet the patient is being billed $5k minimum for the ride, probably pocketed by insurance agencies or the hospital execs.

        I can’t understand how people are EMTs and why there haven’t been riots over this, but God bless them.