Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians offer sit among all 12,080 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

With 12,080 jobs nationally, Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians make up 0.01% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: Pennsylvania alone holds 1,550 of those jobs, the top three states hold 28.2%, and the deepest concentration sits in North Dakota (location quotient 5.88, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $46,630, which is 1.8 times the $25,460 at the 10th, a difference of $21,170 annually. Because the mean wage ($35,550) sits above the median ($34,330), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

The state spread for Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians runs from the $43,490 median in Oklahoma down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in Pennsylvania (1,550 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians stands number 663 by employment and number 805 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Transportation and Material Moving Occupations, the group median wage is $52,310 across 50 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 34% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.1% of the group's 13,645,590 jobs. In 20 of the 38 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $34,330, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 600 jobs, 5.0% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 38 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $35,260 a year, against $39,240 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $34,330 a year is $2,861 a month gross, $1,320 every two weeks, $660 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($29,580) to the 75th ($38,000) is worth $8,420 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $2,861 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $37,763 would sit between the median ($34,330) and the 75th percentile ($38,000), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $29,580, is $4,750 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

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