First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers

At $93,530 against a $50,020 national midpoint, First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers pays 87% more than the typical American job — $43,510 a year of difference. Read the entry requirements before the number.

99,140 people are employed as First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers. At that size there is a real ladder and enough churn that experience can be sold to a competitor rather than only accumulated where you are.

Supervising protective service suits people who can hold a crew to a standard when the consequence of slipping is somebody’s safety rather than a missed target.

We carry no verified training length for First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

A quarter earn below $72,140 and a quarter above $119,500: a 1.7x ratio, $47,360 between the ends. That is an ordinary working spread, which also means experience and location explain most of it and there is no shortcut through the middle.

The bottom quarter of this field earns $72,140 — $34.68 an hour, $22,120 above the $50,020 national midpoint. When even the worst-paid quarter of First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers is this far ahead, the barrier to entry is doing the work of keeping it there.

Avoid it if you could not discipline someone you worked beside for years, which is most of what the stripe actually costs.

No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 99,140 figure counts people already working as First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.

1.7x between $72,140 and $119,500 is the ordinary shape of an occupation where experience and region both matter and neither dominates. $93,530 is a fair expectation by mid-career, not on day one.

In cash terms the middle half of First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers runs $72,140 to $119,500 — $47,360 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $93,530.

The 75th percentile is $119,500. Reaching it from the $93,530 midpoint is $25,970 a year; reaching it from the $72,140 that the bottom quarter of First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers earn is $47,360.

The climb from $93,530 to $119,500 is $25,970; the drop to $72,140 is $21,390. A little more room above the midpoint than below it is the normal shape for First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers and for most paid work, and it is the reason the median is the honest summary rather than the average.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $44.96 at the midpoint for First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers, $34.68 at the 25th percentile and $57.45 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.