Firefighters Salary in San Diego, CA
Estimates come from the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metro area, the closest geography BLS publishes.
The median annual pay for Firefighters in San Diego, CA is $70,900, 20% higher than the national median. BLS reports wages at the metro level, and San Diego sits within the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metro area, so this is the closest official estimate for the city.
Across the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA area, Firefighters pay runs from $56,830 to $99,130 a year, with about 2.9K people employed.
Median annual
$70,900
Median hourly
$34
Average annual
$74,540
Employed in metro
2.9K
Pay distribution
10th$56,830
25th$58,000
Median$70,900
75th$84,230
90th$99,130
Salary calculator
- Hourly
- $34.09
- Daily
- $273
- Weekly
- $1,363
- Bi-weekly
- $2,727
- Monthly
- $5,908
- Annual
- $70,900
$70,900 a year is around the 50th percentile for Firefighterss in San Diego, CA. The median is $70,900.
Firefighters in other metro areas
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$152,100
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$113,700
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ$106,420
- Bellingham, WA$101,130
- Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$101,090
- Fort Collins-Loveland, CO$99,930
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA$98,050
- Vallejo, CA$95,950