Firefighter Recruit
City of Norfolk - Department of Human Resources
Norfolk, VAJob$57K/yrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
Norfolk Fire-Rescue is accepting applications for Firefighter Recruits to join its cross-trained fire and EMS team. Recruits attend a paid eight-month academy designed to prepare them to become Firefighter EMT-Advanced providers. Academy instruction includes classroom education, physical fitness conditioning, technical rescue training, and hazardous materials response.
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::: {empty="true"} Firefighter Recruit: $57,142/annually Firefighter EMT-Advanced (EMT-A): $60,000/annually ::: Norfolk Fire-Rescue:https://www.norfolk.gov/6016/Fire-Rescue Do you thrive under pressure, looking for a career where you can make a real impact, and enjoy working with a tight-knit, supportive crew. Norfolk Fire-Rescue (NFR) is accepting applications for Firefighter Recruit. If you are driven, courageous, and community-minded consider joining a world class fire department in America's most authentic and urban waterfront city. NFR has a rich history of quality and innovative response to emergencies. Over 100 years of fire service response and over 30 years of pre-hospital emergency medical service (EMS) response have resulted in high service delivery standards. Members of NFR are cross-trained fire and EMS providers that respond on fire and medic apparatus. Norfolk's firefighters respond to calls for service that involve threats to life, property, and the environment. As well as technically challenging calls involving hazardous material responses, technical rescue responses, and water rescue emergencies. Academy Information: Firefighter Recruits participate in a paid 8-month Firefighter Recruit Academy designed to become a Firefighter EMT-Advanced (EMT-A). The Academy offers comprehensive instruction that includes: - Classroom education - Physical fitness conditioning - Technical rescue training - Hazardous materials response If you are considering employment in a fire department and want to be part of a team that holds service and professionalism as its standard, then you should consider becoming part of the NFR team. For any questions, please emai l [email protected] .
How this job compares
Set against the 459 open Emergency Medical Services jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$57K/yr
- US median$68–83K/yr47 salary ranges
This rate, $57K, is 23% below the US median midpoint ($75K) — in the lowest quarter of Emergency Medical Services salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 459 open Emergency Medical Services jobs across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Global Medical Response57 open
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- Experience
- Emergency Medical Services postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (147 postings).
- Education
- 4 of the 459 open Emergency Medical Services jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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