Re: Flight Medic Salary

[Jneff71@aol.com]

Bob,
Just a few hints from someone who spent the better part of 3 months doing the 
same thing.  
1)  I would contact the folks at Mosby and they can give you the name of the 
professional research firm that they use.  Talk with Dawn Drennan at 
Mosby.The firm is out of St Louis I believe and the last name of the guy was 
Rau...maybe Bill.  They collect the data and can provide you with very 
specific details to your inquiry.  He did for me, but it "cost" me.  nothing 
big, something like a nice box of cigars or something like that...I dont 
recall the specific.  He is happy to help...or was...(hope he is not unhappy 
to help now!)
2)  Absolutely compare apples to apples.  You must compare the services that 
are in an area that has the same demographics that your service operates in.  
Median populations, number of flights, hospital based, privately owned, 
vendor operated, consortium owned....you get the hint.  It doesnt do you any 
good to compare a one helicopter operation in a small town in the midwest 
with that of an 8 helicopter operation in a large east coast metropolitian 
area.  You have to take into consideration cost of living, regional economic 
fluctuations etc.
3)  Use your industry contacts and personal relationships with those in other 
organizations like your own to attain additional information.  BUT, you need 
to make sure that you can get the information from a reliable source and that 
it can be verified and backed up.  just collecting a list of services and 
saying "XYZ gets this wage, and PDQ gets this" isnt going to help drive your 
point home.  Get it on letter head if you can.  You can also contact the NFPA 
for some help as those folks have ties all over and are globally committed to 
developing the flight paramedic profession...if it helps you get more 
financial support for your position, then that just gives others the 
ammunition to go to their programs to lobby for the same.

Hope this has helped, if you have any additional questions feel free to hit 
me up back channel.

GOOD LUCK!

Josh Neff - NRHBFG
(Nationally Registered Has Been Fly-Guy)

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