City of Springfield, MA / Cf00 / Firefighter
Job-title file
Respond to fires and emergencies, perform rescue and medical aid, and carry out prevention and inspection.
183 employees hold this title in Cf00. Median total compensation for the role is $82,760, below the department median of $84,802.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 183 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 Springfield, MA area, the median wage for Firefighters — about 830 people — is $66,720. Cf00 pays a median base salary of $83,081 for this role, 25% 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 Springfield, MA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Cf00’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. Cf00’s median base salary is 40% above that national figure, about the 79th 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 Springfield, MA range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 178 of 183 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 Cf00 is $82,760, 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 departments
Firefighter is held in 4 City of Springfield, MA departments. In Cf00, the median of $82,760 ranks #2 of 4.
Median total compensation for the Firefighter role in other City of Springfield, MAdepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 20 jurisdictions. In City of Springfield, MA, the median of $82,715 ranks #9 of 20. See Firefighter across all of City of Springfield, MA →
Median total compensation for comparable Firefighterroles 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/Cf00
Source-specific fields
Nicholas Kelly works as a Firefighter for Cf00. Nicholas earned $63,094 in 2025.
Firefighter/Cf00
Source-specific fields
At Cf00, Ethan Quinones-Prendergast serves as a Firefighter. Their 2025 pay totaled $62,164.