Whakawhiwhinga
National EMT certification (NREMT)
The fastest credential in emergency medicine and the clearest example of the problem this site exists to show: far more people hold it than are employed doing the work, and the pay is below the typical American job.
Kāore he whika utu whakamātautau.
Kāore he roa o te whakaakoranga kotahi - ka whakaritea e te āhua.
Kāore he wā whakamutu - kāore he tau tōtika hei whakamutu. He iti iho te utu.
Ki te kore e taea te whakamātautau i te whika i runga ake nei, kāore e whakaputaina e tātau he whakaaro, engari he whakataunga.
He aha te take kāore he tau tōtika i tēnei wāhi?
The National Registry publishes its exam fee but not the cost of the course, and federal programme-level data groups EMT training inside a broad allied-health code alongside unrelated programmes. Course prices are set by hundreds of community colleges, fire academies and private providers, and many students pay nothing because a fire department or ambulance service sponsors them. There is no defensible national figure, so there is none here.
EMT courses typically run one semester — roughly 150 to 200 hours of instruction — which is why this is the quickest licensed route into clinical work anywhere on this site.
Certification runs two years and is renewed through continuing education or by re-examination.
He tokomaha nga tāngata e pupuri ana i tēnei, he tokomaha hoki e mahi ana i roto i te āpure.
Ko te tau e waiho ana te whika utu i waho
O te 404,026 people holding a current National Registry EMT certification i tatautia i roto 2026, Ko te pūkete mahi ā-rohe e whakawāteatia ana mō 180,510 Ka mahi i roto i nga mahi e hiahiatia ana mō — 44.7%. Ka noho 223,516 Kāore e whakaarotia e te kaipupuri.
Ko taua rerekētanga he tepe o runga, ehara i te mokatere kore mahi. Kāore te pupuri i tētahi tohu i te ōrite ki te rapu i tētahi mahi me ia. Kei roto i te rerekētanga ko ia katoa i neke ki te whakahaere, te whakaakoranga, te hoko, te arotakenga, he mahi pāhono rānei i ngā pūkete raraunga ā-rohe i raro i tētahi mahi rerekē; ko ia tangata i whakamutua, i mahue rānei i te whakawhiwhinga; ko ia tangata e mahi ana i te wā wātea, i te kaimahi, i te mahi takitahi rānei i tētahi āhuatanga kāore i te whiwhi i te uiuinga mahi; me te tangata katoa e pupuri ana hei aho tuarua ki tētahi atu mahi. Nā reira ko te rerekētanga ko te CEILING i te maha o ngā tāngata whakaakoranga kāore e mahi i tēnei āpure - he iti iho te tau tūturu, ā, kāore he tatau o tētahi tangata kāore i te mahi. Ko te mea e whakatū ana te takirua ko te rahi o te pūrere ko te tau utu i whakaputaina, ko te mea kāore he wāhi utu e whakaatu ana ki a koe.
Ko nga taha e rua he tau tūturu. Ko ngā kaipupuri i tētahi rā ki te mahi i tētahi wā — ko te momo ōrite o te nui, ko te take anake ka taea te wehe i ngā mea e rua.
Ko te mea kei roto i taua tatau: The National Registry defines this as the unique number of individuals holding a current National Registry certification at EMT level. It updates DAILY, so the figure here is the value on the date shown and will have moved since. It is not the same as state EMS licensure: some states license EMTs without requiring National Registry certification, which pushes this count below the number of people licensed to work as EMTs, while other holders keep the certification without ever working in EMS, which pushes it up.
Ko te kaituhi: people holding a current National Registry EMT certification = 404,026 (Standing count of people holding the credential, National Registry dashboard, retrieved 26 July 2026) · National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians, National Registry Data Dashboard · kitenga
A large share of the unaccounted-for holders are firefighters and police officers, for whom EMT certification is required or standard but whose jobs federal data files under a different occupation entirely. That share is not published anywhere, which is precisely why the gap below has to be read as a ceiling.
Ko te mea e whakaae ana ia kia mahia e koe
Ko te utu e pā ana ki te mahi, ehara i te tohu. Ko ēnei ngā mahi e whakaaetia ana e ia.
| He mahi | E hiahiatia ana? | Median | Ka mahi |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emergency Medical Technicians | Legally required to hold the job | $44,470 | 180,510 |
Ko te utu me te mahi pāpāho: BLS Kaimahi me ngā Tatauranga Uara, Mei 2025.
E utu ana rātau mō rātau anō?
Ko te mahi e whakawāteatia ana e tēnei kāore e utu nui ake i te mahi pūnoa o U.S. i te wā e taumaha ana ia mahi e te maha o ngā tāngata i roto i te. Kāore he utu utu, nō reira kāore he moni mō te utu e whakaora ana. Kāore e whakawātea i te tohu - tērā pea e hiahiatia ana i te ture, te huarahi ki te mahi rānei e hiahiatia ana e koe - engari ko te tikanga kāore he pūtea e hoki ana i te moni.
Ko te mea e hiahiatia ana e koe i mua i te tīmatanga
- A state-approved EMT course
- CPR certification
- Age 18
Kāore i te mahi tēnei mēnā
- you need the pay to live on — the median for this work is below the median across all US occupations
- you are treating it as a step to paramedic or nursing without checking you can afford the years in between
- you cannot pass a criminal background check
Ko ngā tohu katoa, e te wā whakawhiwhinga · He pēhea te tatau i tēnei · Ka rapu i tētahi atu mea