City of Baton Rouge / East Baton Rouge Parish / Fire Department / Fire Equipment Operator
Job-title file
Operate, maintain, and repair equipment or facilities, performing skilled hands-on work.
125 employees hold this title in Fire Department. Median total compensation for the role is $77,377, above the department median of $75,887.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 125 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Baton Rouge, LA area, the median wage for Firefighters — about 1,060 people — is $33,260. Fire Department pays a median base salary of $67,117 for this role, 102% above that figure — above the 90th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Firefighters across every employer in the Baton Rouge, LA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Fire Department’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Firefighters — about 345,990 people — is $59,280. Fire Department’s median base salary is 13% above that national figure, about the 61st percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Baton Rouge, LA range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 123 of 125 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Fire Department is $77,377, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Record list
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Fire Equipment Operator/Fire Department
Jacob Morgan holds the role of Fire Equipment Operator at Fire Department. In 2025, their total compensation was $61,333.
Fire Equipment Operator/Fire Department
Source-specific fields
At Fire Department, Barry Froeba serves as a Fire Equipment Operator within Fire-Suppression (112 Hrs). Their 2025 pay totaled $59,681.