Firefighter
Responds to fire, medical and rescue calls on long shifts. Crew life is a large part of the compensation.
- Pay band (est.)
- $58k–$105k
- Time to competence
- 3 years
- Licence
- Required
- Setting
- field
- Leverage
- low
- Place constraint
- low
- Physical demand
- 90/100
- Hours burden
- 75/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play54th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge16th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage14th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand43th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay49th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body2th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy2th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit41th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility43th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill91th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load84th
Care, craft and stewardship weight. Not a moral score.
- Downside tolerance12th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Carcinogen exposure, injury and sleep disruption over decades.
Examine this against your weights
The percentiles above use the default weights. Set your own on the ranking and this vocation moves with them.
- Place constraint is low. Where you live is analysed at locationistics.com.
- Hours burden is 75/100 and people intensity 78/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: BLS-style patterns; estimate. All figures are estimates for comparison.