Paramedic Salary in Georgia 2026,
$57,660 Median | BLS Data by City

A median $57,660 a year, or $27.72 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025 — 4.9% below the national median of $60,600. The band runs $40,600 at the 10th percentile to $82,980 at the 90th, with the middle half between $47,420 and $64,140. The long stretch from the 75th to the 90th percentile is where critical care, flight and supervisory roles sit.

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell at $61,940 and Augusta-Richmond County at $61,830, then Savannah $53,420, Warner Robins $52,070 and Macon-Bibb County $51,930. About ten thousand dollars separates top from bottom, which is a wide spread for prehospital work and reflects the size and funding of the employing services.

Advanced life support: advanced airway management, cardiac monitoring and intervention, intravenous and intraosseous access, and a drug formulary well beyond the EMT scope. The licence comes from the Department of Public Health's Office of EMS and Trauma, and practice is under physician medical direction with protocols set at service level within the state framework. That last point is practically important — two paramedics with identical Georgia licences may work to different protocols depending on which service employs them.

On the published figures, clearly. The paramedic median of $57,660 sits about twelve thousand dollars above the state's EMT median, and more importantly the paramedic band has an upper tail the basic scope does not: $82,980 at the 90th percentile, reached through critical care transport, flight and supervisory roles. For anyone intending a career in Georgia EMS rather than a period in it, the paramedic programme is the step that changes the trajectory rather than the increment.

In the rural services, and the metro table shows the shape of it — Macon-Bibb County at $51,930 and Warner Robins at $52,070 sit about ten thousand dollars below Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell at $61,940, while covering longer transport distances to designated trauma centres. Rural Georgia ambulance services often run advanced-scope units with a single paramedic across large catchments, which is demanding work at the lower end of the state's pay range. That combination is the state's persistent EMS staffing problem.

Because advanced scope opens roles that basic scope cannot fill. A paramedic can staff a critical care transport unit, fly on an air-medical service, act as a field supervisor with clinical authority over other crews, or move into EMS management and education — all of which pay above routine ambulance work and none of which are available at the EMT level. The $64,140 seventy-fifth percentile and $82,980 ninetieth describe those roles. The basic scope has no equivalent, which is why its distribution is compressed and the paramedic distribution is not.

Paramedic work is overtime-heavy and shift-based, so annual wages vary with roster patterns as much as with rate. The estimate pools 911, interfacility transport, hospital-based, industrial and event paramedics, whose pay structures differ. With about 3,250 paramedics statewide the sample is modest and the smaller metro rows should be read as directional. And service-level protocol variation means the job itself differs between employers in ways no wage figure captures.

Specialist scope first — critical care transport and flight paramedic roles are the clearest step above routine ambulance work and are much of what the $64,140 seventy-fifth percentile describes. Employer size and funding second, which is why Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell at $61,940 and Augusta-Richmond County at $61,830 lead. Overtime availability third, worth proportionally more under Georgia's flat tax. And supervision, education or EMS management fourth, which is what reaches the $82,980 ninetieth percentile.