Yeah but not all areas give that kinda pay. Plus how do you measure the worth in pay comparing it to other jobs ? How much would you say your life is worth knowing that you’re risking it on every single call you get to save people you never have met at all? Complete strangers. Let us all know what other daily job has that sort of daily even hourly putting yourself in harms way to simply save a stranger. Doctors make High 6 figures and never one day worried that they may not make it through a shift. But yet we value first responders lives so lowly that we would even compare them to guys who pick up garbage or sit in some nice office on a computer. I think people don’t really understand till they themselves are in need of someone to come help them. Then that so called average pay that people think is respectable all of a sudden you would be willing to give everything you have if this person would just save your life or a loved one life. Think about that.