Emergency Medical Technicians in Ohio
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$34,107
after federal, FICA and Ohio tax
Tax takes
$6,113
15.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$37,149
Ohio costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Ohio — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$40,220
Kept after tax
$34,107
Worth in national money
$37,149
State rank
32
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Ohio pays this job around $40,220 at the midpoint, 32 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 494 occupations Ohio publishes, this job lands at 399. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Here is where Ohio does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $40,220 you keep $34,107, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $37,149 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $42,930, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For emergency medical technicians the Ohio median is $40,220, ranking 32 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Within Ohio, this work ranks 399 of 494 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- After federal, FICA and Ohio income tax, retained pay for emergency medical technicians on $40,220 is $34,107. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $37,149 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $42,930 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Emergency Medical Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,940 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $40,220 |
| Top tenth earn over | $53,960 |
| This salary | $40,220 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Ohio | $34,107 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $34,497 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,649 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $39,735 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,995 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of emergency medical technicians in Ohio earn under $40,220 and half over. The published range runs $34,940 at the tenth percentile to $53,960 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $34,107 take-home in Ohio comes from $40,220. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 399 of 494.
- One number stands for prices across all of Ohio, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $37,149, the adjusted value of that $40,220 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 399 of 494 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for emergency medical technicians in Ohio, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $34,940 to $53,960; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $34,107, from $40,220, assumes a single Ohio filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 399 of 494 locally, and the state ranks 32 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Ohio, so $37,149 — the adjusted value of that $40,220 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 399 of 494 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $42,930, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $34,940 at the tenth percentile, $53,960 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $37,149.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Ohio adds its own income tax on top — which is why $34,107 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Ohio is $42,930. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($34,940 to $53,960) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Ohio rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Ohio's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $37,149 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $34,107 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Ohio income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.