In my area of Michigan, Services pay basics about $10.25 Hr starting. In house EMS basic pay for places like Security/EMT at local factorys the Casino and such.. start out at about $12.50-13.50 Hr
Somewhere in the last couple weeks I read of a course that was about 24 hours long that had helped improve the pass rate for emts both the course and taking the NR test, I just cant find where I read it now.