Leonidas1
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A new ambulance service has opened in the Chicago area, adding to the number of providers in the region. Midwest Ambulance Service opened earlier this week. Anyone from Chicago out there interested?
I know who you mean, and it's amazing that Murphy makes Millions of $ but can't pay his staff a livable wage .Private pay in the Chicago area varies alot. I make more in the city of Chicago as a B than friends of mine that are medics in the suburbs. A buddy of mine works at one in the north suburbs and makes 10.50 as a shift medic. I make more than that as a basic by a few dollars. Here's why as he explained to me and this is the only place I have heard doing this but since he is shift and works two 24's a week, and then one week a month works 3 24's, they figure out the pay versus someone working say, day car, and they lowered his hourly to even it out. They want all employees even they say. I worked there for a bit as a basic and never got a raise and those that did only got about ten or fifteen cents. Some companies start you at more for years of experience and some do not care about that. I recently spoke to someone from Superior outside of a hospital and he told me he was making 9.80 as a basic and has been there for a couple years. MedEx, where I worked with bstone, paid very well if you stayed long and had good attendance etc. I left making very good hourly pay as a basic. I interviewed at one private up my way in Lake County and the owner laughed out loud when he saw what I was making at MedEx and told me he could not even come close to that. Plus we had a good call bonus and I got another buck an hour for being an FTO. The medics I have spoken to there say they are very happy with pay and call bonus and also the extra 20 bucks per call on top of their regular call bonus if they run vent calls. Some had call bonus checks of 800 - 1000 monthly. I guess you just have to check around. I was at MedEx for three years and during that time my pay increased three dollars per hour. Raises were every six months without issue and they had a sign-on bonus.
Actually the reduced hourly rate on a 24 is very common, every service I've worked at has had different rates for 24, 16, 12 and 8 hour trucks, it all comes out to the same annual wage though.
24 hour units are really an ungodly safety issue, or their not running enough calls. The only REAL advantage to a 24 is lower cost.
Private pay in the Chicago area varies alot. I make more in the city of Chicago as a B than friends of mine that are medics in the suburbs. A buddy of mine works at one in the north suburbs and makes 10.50 as a shift medic. I make more than that as a basic by a few dollars. Here's why as he explained to me and this is the only place I have heard doing this but since he is shift and works two 24's a week, and then one week a month works 3 24's, they figure out the pay versus someone working say, day car, and they lowered his hourly to even it out. They want all employees even they say. I worked there for a bit as a basic and never got a raise and those that did only got about ten or fifteen cents. Some companies start you at more for years of experience and some do not care about that. I recently spoke to someone from Superior outside of a hospital and he told me he was making 9.80 as a basic and has been there for a couple years. MedEx, where I worked with bstone, paid very well if you stayed long and had good attendance etc. I left making very good hourly pay as a basic. I interviewed at one private up my way in Lake County and the owner laughed out loud when he saw what I was making at MedEx and told me he could not even come close to that. Plus we had a good call bonus and I got another buck an hour for being an FTO. The medics I have spoken to there say they are very happy with pay and call bonus and also the extra 20 bucks per call on top of their regular call bonus if they run vent calls. Some had call bonus checks of 800 - 1000 monthly. I guess you just have to check around. I was at MedEx for three years and during that time my pay increased three dollars per hour. Raises were every six months without issue and they had a sign-on bonus.