Calimesa firefighter salary, 2025
Calimesa is a city in Riverside County. 13 people worked as firefighters for Calimesa in 2025. Fewer than 5 of them worked the full year, so there is no average that wouldn't describe individual people. The official range for its firefighter titles runs from $55,140 to $80,866.
What does Calimesa pay its firefighters?
Official pay range1
$55,140 to $80,866
from the lowest entry salary to the top of the highest firefighter title
Average total pay, full-year firefighters1
Fewer than 5
13 firefighters in all, 4 of them full-year: too few for an average.
- Median total pay
- Fewer than 5
- the middle firefighter: half earned more, half less
- Overtime
- Fewer than 5
- average per full-year firefighter
- Starting salary
- $55,140
- bottom of the Firefighter /EMT range
- Average pay rank
- Fewer than 5
- too few full-year staff to rank
What does each firefighter title at Calimesa pay?
Each bar is the official range for one title, lowest first. The dot marks the average total pay of full-year staff in that title, where at least 5 people stand behind it.1
- Firefighter /EMTFewer than 5
- Firefighter/EMTFewer than 5
- Firefighter/ParamedicFewer than 5
official range average total pay, full year. "Fewer than 5" means too few full-year people in that title to show.
What do firefighters earn around Calimesa?
Average total pay of full-year firefighters across Riverside County and across California. Calimesa's own average isn't shown: fewer than 5 of its firefighters worked the full year.1
- All employers in Riverside County$171,295
- All employers in California$186,123
Full-year firefighters across Riverside County earned an average of $171,295 in 2025, $14,828 less than the California average.
Average firefighter pay in Riverside County compared to nearby counties
Average total pay of full-year firefighters across all employers in each county that borders Riverside County, and how much more or less it pays.1
- Orange County$185,827 average, 11 employers$14,532 more than Riverside County
- San Bernardino County$185,219 average, 12 employers$13,924 more than Riverside County
- San Diego County$145,053 average, 24 employers$26,242 less than Riverside County
- Imperial County$96,857 average, 3 employers$74,438 less than Riverside County
Questions about firefighter pay at Calimesa
Why is there no average firefighter salary for Calimesa?
13 people worked as firefighters for Calimesa in 2025, but fewer than 5 of them worked the full year. Every figure on Public Paycheck covers at least 5 people, so none describes one person.
What is the pay range for a firefighter at Calimesa?
The official range across Calimesa's firefighter titles runs from $55,140 to $80,866 in 2025. For comparison, full-year firefighters across Riverside County earned an average of $171,295.
What is the starting salary for a firefighter at Calimesa?
$55,140 a year: the bottom of the official range for Calimesa's Firefighter /EMT title in 2025, as reported. Pay rises with steps and overtime.
More salaries in Riverside County
- Murrieta$202,570 average total pay
- Corona$182,973 average total pay
- Cathedral City$175,273 average total pay
- Riverside$173,876 average total pay
- Hemet$152,234 average total pay
- Palm Springs$150,784 average total pay
- Highest firefighter salaries in CaliforniaThe best-paying employers, ranked
- Teacher salaries in Riverside CountyEvery school district's salary schedule
Sources for the Calimesa figures
Every person who held a firefighter position at Calimesa at any point in 2025 counts toward the headcount. Pay figures use only people who worked roughly the full year: those whose regular pay reached at least 90% of the bottom of their official range. Total pay is gross wages before tax, including overtime, lump sums and other pay. Averages lead; the median total pay is the middle person's, with half above and half below, and is less pulled by a few people with very high pay. Every figure covers at least 5 people.
- State Controller's Office, Government Compensation in California, 2025: positions, official pay ranges, wages, pension formula and employer contributions as reported by Calimesa.