Colma Fire Protection District firefighter salary, 2025
Colma Fire Protection District is a fire protection district in San Mateo County. 37 people worked as firefighters for Colma Fire Protection District 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 $62,855 to $62,855.
What does Colma Fire Protection District pay its firefighters?
Official pay range1
$62,855 to $62,855
from the lowest entry salary to the top of the highest firefighter title
Average total pay, full-year firefighters1
Fewer than 5
37 firefighters in all, 1 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
- $62,855
- bottom of the Firefighter range
- Average pay rank
- Fewer than 5
- too few full-year staff to rank
What does each firefighter title at Colma Fire Protection District 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
- FirefighterFewer 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 Colma Fire Protection District?
Average total pay of full-year firefighters across San Mateo County and across California. Colma Fire Protection District's own average isn't shown: fewer than 5 of its firefighters worked the full year.1
- All employers in San Mateo County$219,236
- All employers in California$186,123
Full-year firefighters across San Mateo County earned an average of $219,236 in 2025, $33,113 more than the California average.
Average firefighter pay in San Mateo County compared to nearby counties
Average total pay of full-year firefighters across all employers in each county that borders San Mateo County, and how much more or less it pays.1
- Santa Clara County$214,586 average, 7 employers$4,650 less than San Mateo County
- Alameda County$211,608 average, 10 employers$7,628 less than San Mateo County
- San Francisco County$188,729 average, 1 employer$30,507 less than San Mateo County
- Santa Cruz County$184,502 average, 3 employers$34,734 less than San Mateo County
Questions about firefighter pay at Colma Fire Protection District
Why is there no average firefighter salary for Colma Fire Protection District?
37 people worked as firefighters for Colma Fire Protection District 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 Colma Fire Protection District?
The official range across Colma Fire Protection District's firefighter titles runs from $62,855 to $62,855 in 2025. For comparison, full-year firefighters across San Mateo County earned an average of $219,236.
What is the starting salary for a firefighter at Colma Fire Protection District?
$62,855 a year: the bottom of the official range for Colma Fire Protection District's Firefighter title in 2025, as reported. Pay rises with steps and overtime.
More salaries in San Mateo County
- South San Francisco$240,483 average total pay
- San Mateo Consolidated Fire Department$220,998 average total pay
- Central County Fire Department$216,758 average total pay
- San Bruno$215,990 average total pay
- Daly City$213,140 average total pay
- Brisbane$190,686 average total pay
- Menlo Park Fire Protection District$170,701 average total pay
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Sources for the Colma Fire Protection District figures
Every person who held a firefighter position at Colma Fire Protection District 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 Colma Fire Protection District.