Firefighter/EMT-B/( Volunteer) Washington The wage for all emt's, paramedic's is at least to say a shame. We as profesionals need to try and push our wage higher, a laborer on a state job makes close to $30.00 an hour if he has a bad day maybe he will have to sweep the floor, if we have a bad day people die. If we don't start now to raise the bar it will always be low.