City of Memphis / Fire Services / Firefighter Paramedic
Job-title file
Respond to fires and emergencies, perform rescue and medical aid, and carry out prevention and inspection.
305 employees hold this title in Fire Services. Median total compensation for the role is $79,019, above the department median of $79,019.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 305 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 Memphis, TN-MS-AR area, the median wage for Firefighters — about 1,660 people — is $62,910. Fire Services pays a median base salary of $79,019 for this role, 26% 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 Memphis, TN-MS-AR area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Fire Services’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 Services’s median base salary is 33% above that national figure, about the 76th 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 Memphis, TN-MS-AR range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 304 of 305 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 Services is $79,019, 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.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 6 jurisdictions. In City of Memphis, the median of $79,019 ranks #5 of 6. See Firefighter Paramedic across all of City of Memphis →
Median total compensation for comparable Firefighter Paramedicroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Firefighter Paramedic/Fire Services
Source-specific fields
Ahmad Aysheh works as a Firefighter Paramedic for Fire Services. Ahmad earned $64,092 in 2025.