Long Beach paramedic and EMT salary, 2025

Long Beach is a city in Los Angeles County. 127 people worked as paramedics and EMTs for Long Beach 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 paramedic and EMT titles runs from $43,847 to $43,847.

What does Long Beach pay its paramedics and EMTs?

Official pay range1

$43,847 to $43,847

from the lowest entry salary to the top of the highest paramedic and EMT title

Average total pay, full-year paramedics and EMTs1

Fewer than 5

127 paramedics and EMTs in all, 4 of them full-year: too few for an average.

Median total pay
Fewer than 5
the middle paramedic and EMT: half earned more, half less
Overtime
Fewer than 5
average per full-year paramedic and EMT
Starting salary
Not reported
no official range reported
Average pay rank
Fewer than 5
too few full-year staff to rank

What does each paramedic and EMT title at Long Beach 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

  1. Ambulance Operator - Non - Classified$43,116 · 113 people
    Fewer than 5
  2. Ambulance Operator$43,847 · 14 people
    Fewer 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 paramedics and EMTs earn around Long Beach?

Average total pay of full-year paramedics and EMTs across Los Angeles County and across California. Long Beach's own average isn't shown: fewer than 5 of its paramedics and EMTs worked the full year.1

Full-year paramedics and EMTs across Los Angeles County earned an average of $80,908 in 2025, $11,100 less than the California average.

Pension and health cover at Long Beach

As reported by the city. Contributions are what the employer paid per full-year paramedic and EMT, on top of wages.1

Pension formula
1.5% at 65
the most common formula among Long Beach's paramedics and EMTs
Employer pension contribution
Fewer than 5
average per year
Health, dental and vision
Fewer than 5
average paid by the employer per year

Questions about paramedic and EMT pay at Long Beach

Why is there no average paramedic and EMT salary for Long Beach?

127 people worked as paramedics and EMTs for Long Beach 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 paramedic and EMT at Long Beach?

The official range across Long Beach's paramedic and EMT titles runs from $43,847 to $43,847 in 2025. For comparison, full-year paramedics and EMTs across Los Angeles County earned an average of $80,908.

What pension do paramedics and EMTs at Long Beach get?

The most common pension formula among Long Beach's paramedics and EMTs is 1.5% at 65, as reported by the city.

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Sources for the Long Beach figures

Every person who held a paramedic and EMT position at Long Beach 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.

  1. State Controller's Office, Government Compensation in California, 2025: positions, official pay ranges, wages, pension formula and employer contributions as reported by Long Beach.

How we read the data