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Posted 5 months ago I'm just wondering how many of you vollunteers get paid for what you do. Most of our Provinces vol. are paid and now we are termed paid partime ff.Unfortunatly we have lost the term vol. |
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| Posted 5 months ago well I am on an all volunteer department. We have 2 depts that recieve a bonus around christmas for how many calls they went on. They are technically Paid vollies One Shot. One Kill. Ready to die but never will!!!!! R.I.P. Chesty |
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| Posted 5 months ago We;re paid by the hour on every call ,flat rate for practice and going to mutual aid meetings and a flat rate for extra training. |
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| Posted 5 months ago not me just a volunteer . |
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| Posted 5 months ago I guess you could say I'm paid-on-call. Like oohrah's department, we get a check around Christmas that reflects the calls we've been on that year. It's not a ton of money but it sure comes at a nice time. |
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| Posted 5 months ago My department only receives two hundred dollars around Christmas for gas and clothing that has been ruined through the year. |
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| Posted 5 months ago We get paid If we do a stand by. Not to many of them Be safe
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| Posted 5 months ago We get paid for every meeting two a month and get a check just before christmas we get nothing for calls or training. |
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| Posted 5 months ago Fireemsgrrl said: same here The largest room is the room for self improvement |
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| Posted 5 months ago This can be a complicated subject depending on who you ask. It is my understanding that, if you are recieving money for going on calls, then technically you are not a volunteer and therefore forfeit your pension. I am not for sure on this as I serve on two departments with different ideas on the matter. On my Volunteer department I get paid approx. $10 per call because of my certifications as an EMT B-IV and a FF2. We get paid monthly. I am still eligable to get my pension for some reason of which has never been clearly explained. On my paid Department of which is combination paid and Volunteer, the Vols don't get paid anything because the Chief states that if they did get paid that they would lose their pension. Strange huh? Needless to say we've been loosing Volunteers at a farely steady rate. It was just two years ago that they used to get paid. Many departments around here have started hiring reserves. As a reserve you have to put in a minumum of 48 hours a month but you are paid when you are on shift. Many of the reserves that I know work just as much as the full time guys, they just dont make as much money. The best thing about a reserve program is that you get to see how these people are on the job. When your department decides that they want to hire more people or fill a position, they already know who to hire from the reserve pool and don't need to do another costly hiring. Thats all I have to say right now. LOL |
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| Posted 5 months ago pension? The largest room is the room for self improvement |
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| Posted 5 months ago we get paid for the calls we run. the Driver and 2nd EMT/attendant get $20 a call. the EMT who does the trip sheet gets $45 for that call. we also get "incentive points" for being on call, going to trainings, going to meetings, etc. these points are turned into $$ at the end of the year, and we can use them to buy gear from catalogs...we dont get it in cash. we are still volunteer tried and true. we dont get paid for the countless hours we spend training our asses off, or the time we put in training the newbies. basically the pay is to keep an ample amount of EMTs around so that at least we can get the rig out the door and to the call. |
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| Posted 5 months ago tsmith1 said: Yeah, pension??? |
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| Posted 5 months ago We are paid 5 dollars a call and then every hour, training (which we train every wednesday), stand bys. we get paid every 6 months, july and december. |
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| Posted 5 months ago on our dept we don't get anything, though i do believe our chief and assistant chief might get a lil bit of money, though i could be wrong, though i do know that my buddy who's on the volunteer rescue squad gets about 7 dollars or so only if they take the patient to the hospital |
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| Posted 5 months ago Fireemsgrrl said: seriously...pension?? |
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| Posted 5 months ago Our fire chief is paid salary by the city and our assistant chiefs are like us volunteers but they get paid double what firefighters do. |
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| Posted 5 months ago Our fire chief is paid salary by the city and our assistant chiefs are like us volunteers but they get paid double what firefighters do. |
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| Posted 5 months ago dept24emt said: AR. has a pension program for volunteers. My old department did not get paid, but my otherhalf department get so much a call around Christmas. KERRY |
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| Posted 5 months ago I don't know if it is federal or state but I can find out if you want. KERRY |
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| Posted 5 months ago We are strictly volunteer, no one is paid in our department |
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| Posted 5 months ago we get paid $10 a call plus $10 a meeting twice a month or for any other function we may have. |
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| Posted 5 months ago cushmanfire11 said: thanks for the explanation Cushman |
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| Posted 5 months ago This is our first year of being paid-on-call but we are still Volunteers. The pay here is intended to ease the burden of fuel costs and also help with recruitment and retention of Volunteers. More of a "Volunteer Incentive" plan than anything else. I personally was more than happy to do it for free but a little gas money makes it nice. |
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| Posted 5 months ago We have no pension plan ,i don't do it for the money ,i enjoy helping out my community and would do it for free if need be, some of us do alot around the hall that we can put in to be pd for but don't because we enjoy doing it a few others need to be pd for eveything. it is kind of nice to get a cheque at Christmas time . |
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| Posted 5 months ago beastlips said: we mostly do it for the same reasons- a little gas $$ and volunteer retention. we were losing EMT's left and right before we started paying. to me, it doesnt matter whether i get paid or not...id do it even if we didnt. it does make it nice for gas, and a little extra incentive when ur getting up at 3am to fly across town... |
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| Posted 5 months ago Man, you all should come up here to Michigan. Our "volunteers" are all paid on call. Every fire department up here, (that I know of) gets paid at least $8/hr per run. Some places make as much as $17-$18/hr per run. Training is usually paid for, as well as mandadory meetings. I was on a volunteer department in Florida, and it was just that. We donated our blood, sweat, and tears for the satisfaction of the job and helping out. Up here you can get paid for it. Not to mention that the vollies can put just about any light/siren combo on thier POV's. |
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| Posted 5 months ago my department is a combo department...we have a fulltime chief,asst chief ems capt, fire marshall and three duty capts, three ff/medics, three sgt.medics and the rest are paid on call firefighters ranging from mfr,emt and even medics.
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| Posted 5 months ago I don't get paid for one thing! UVa pays me as a Stress Tech for Nuclear Cardiology 40 plus hours per week. I run one 12 hour shift per week (Fri. nite) and a 24 hour Saturday shift every 6 weeks. Plus whatever I feel like responding to as a backup call any other time. I go to the meetings so I can keep up with things as well as get training. I am on the Regulations committee too. I don't mean to carry on but I love doing EMS. If I could get paid what I make at UVa, I do it in a heartbeat! Even the CHRISTmas stuff! Virginia is just now getting around to keeping up with the rest of the world andsome places are paid so I may be getting that wish sooner than later! :) |
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| Posted 5 months ago We definitely do not get any pay at all. No money or calls, no pension plan, no incentive plan. We do it for the community. This includes both Fire and EMS. We all spend counteess hours in training, classes, etc. which usually gets paid for. It would be nice to get a bonus or something, but currently we do not get any incentive at all. |