Firefighters Salary in Boston, MA
Estimates come from the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area, the closest geography BLS publishes.
The median annual pay for Firefighters in Boston, MA is $73,990, 25% higher than the national median. BLS reports wages at the metro level, and Boston sits within the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area, so this is the closest official estimate for the city.
Across the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area, Firefighters pay runs from $49,700 to $118,540 a year, with about 8.5K people employed.
Median annual
$73,990
Median hourly
$36
Average annual
$75,400
Employed in metro
8.5K
Pay distribution
10th$49,700
25th$62,050
Median$73,990
75th$81,110
90th$118,540
Salary calculator
- Hourly
- $35.57
- Daily
- $285
- Weekly
- $1,423
- Bi-weekly
- $2,846
- Monthly
- $6,166
- Annual
- $73,990
$73,990 a year is around the 50th percentile for Firefighterss in Boston, MA. The median is $73,990.
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