What was the average annual salary in 2017 for paid firefighters in the US?

If you were thinking you could get rich working as a firefighter, think again. In May of 2017, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said that a firefighter in the United States is paid on average $49,080 per year. That breaks down to a little more than $23 an hour. A worker just driving a forklift at a road construction site makes nearly as much. That pretty much puts firefighters at hero status.

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