San Francisco paramedic and EMT salary, 2025
San Francisco is a city in San Francisco County. 21 people worked as paramedics and EMTs for San Francisco 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 $90,220 to $152,672.
What does San Francisco pay its paramedics and EMTs?
Official pay range1
$90,220 to $152,672
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
21 paramedics and EMTs in all, 0 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
- $90,220
- bottom of the Emt Paramedic range
- Average pay rank
- Fewer than 5
- too few full-year staff to rank
What does each paramedic and EMT title at San Francisco 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
- Emt ParamedicFewer than 5
official range average total pay, full year. "Fewer than 5" means too few full-year people in that title to show.
Firefighter-paramedic pay at San Francisco
Counted on their own, kept out of the paramedic and EMT figures on this page. Firefighter-paramedics are firefighters whose title names paramedic duties. Range: the middle reported bottom and top of each group's official ranges. Pay: average total pay of full-year staff, overtime included.1
| Staff | People | Official range | Average total pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Firefighter-paramedics | 550 | $90,220 to $175,630 | $190,678 |
What do paramedics and EMTs earn around San Francisco?
Average total pay of full-year paramedics and EMTs across San Francisco County and across California. San Francisco's own average isn't shown: fewer than 5 of its paramedics and EMTs worked the full year.1
- All employers in California$92,008
What do paramedics and EMTs earn at employers near San Francisco?
San Francisco has no average of its own. These are the closest employers that report one, in San Francisco County and the counties next to it, with their figure for paramedic operators where they have one. They're other employers' figures, not an estimate of its pay.1
- BerkeleyAlameda County, 2025$129,028paramedic
- OaklandAlameda County, 2025$98,710all paramedics and EMTs, mostly emt
Average total pay of full-year staff, overtime included. Each employer's own year.
Pension and health cover at San Francisco
As reported by the city. Contributions are what the employer paid per full-year paramedic and EMT, on top of wages.1
- Pension formula
- 2.3% at 65
- the most common formula among San Francisco'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 San Francisco
Why is there no average paramedic and EMT salary for San Francisco?
21 people worked as paramedics and EMTs for San Francisco 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 San Francisco?
The official range across San Francisco's paramedic and EMT titles runs from $90,220 to $152,672 in 2025.
What is the starting salary for a paramedic and EMT at San Francisco?
$90,220 a year: the bottom of the official range for San Francisco's Emt Paramedic title in 2025, as reported. Pay rises with steps and overtime.
How much does a firefighter-paramedic make at San Francisco?
Full-year firefighter-paramedics at San Francisco averaged $190,678 in total pay in 2025, overtime included, on an official range of $90,220 to $175,630.
What pension do paramedics and EMTs at San Francisco get?
The most common pension formula among San Francisco's paramedics and EMTs is 2.3% at 65, as reported by the city.
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Sources for the San Francisco figures
Every person who held a paramedic and EMT position at San Francisco 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 San Francisco.