Firefighters Salary in San Jose, CA
Estimates come from the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro area, the closest geography BLS publishes.
The median annual pay for Firefighters in San Jose, CA is $152,100, 157% higher than the national median. BLS reports wages at the metro level, and San Jose sits within the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro area, so this is the closest official estimate for the city.
Across the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area, Firefighters pay runs from $59,680 to $181,270 a year, with about 1.3K people employed.
Median annual
$152,100
Median hourly
$73
Average annual
$134,270
Employed in metro
1.3K
Pay distribution
10th$59,680
25th$93,800
Median$152,100
75th$166,770
90th$181,270
Salary calculator
- Hourly
- $73.13
- Daily
- $585
- Weekly
- $2,925
- Bi-weekly
- $5,850
- Monthly
- $12,675
- Annual
- $152,100
$152,100 a year is around the 50th percentile for Firefighterss in San Jose, CA. The median is $152,100.
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