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minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down1·12 days agoVolunteer firefighters do actually still get paid a lot of the time. Source: Was volunteer firefighter. Was paid per-call.
minus-squareChainweasel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·12 days agoSame, 6 years from 2005-2011, $7.50 an hour for a call was great money in 2005. I think we were up to $10 by the time I quit
minus-squarethermal_shock@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-212 days agoI was thinking that was shit money, but I was making $2.13 as a waiter in 1999-2000, so that’s about right. I made $5.15 for awhile, then min wage was finally raised to $7.25, where it’s been for almost 20 years.
minus-squarebearboiblake [he/him]@pawb.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·12 days agoThanks for sharing that - out of curiosity, would you still have done it if it wasn’t paid? No judgment, just curious!
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·12 days agoHell yeah! I didn’t even know I would be getting paid until I went down to the station to ask how I sign up.
minus-squarebearboiblake [he/him]@pawb.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·12 days agoGood for you! Thanks for being a good human <3
minus-squareEncrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoMost firefighters in the U.S. are volunteer, and make no money at all. Being paid per call is not the norm.
minus-squarekungen@feddit.nulinkfedilinkarrow-up3·12 days agoIsn’t it just a small stipend? Nothing you could live on, even if houses were burning down 40 hours a week.
Volunteer firefighters do actually still get paid a lot of the time.
Source: Was volunteer firefighter. Was paid per-call.
Same, 6 years from 2005-2011, $7.50 an hour for a call was great money in 2005. I think we were up to $10 by the time I quit
I was thinking that was shit money, but I was making $2.13 as a waiter in 1999-2000, so that’s about right. I made $5.15 for awhile, then min wage was finally raised to $7.25, where it’s been for almost 20 years.
Thanks for sharing that - out of curiosity, would you still have done it if it wasn’t paid? No judgment, just curious!
Hell yeah! I didn’t even know I would be getting paid until I went down to the station to ask how I sign up.
Good for you! Thanks for being a good human <3
Most firefighters in the U.S. are volunteer, and make no money at all. Being paid per call is not the norm.
Isn’t it just a small stipend? Nothing you could live on, even if houses were burning down 40 hours a week.