What is the yearly salary for smoke jumpers?

Answer 1

1st year Smokejumpers make $14.23 an hour (GS-5) but many make 16 dollars an hour. However, you have to add in overtime and "hazard pay", plus the fact that it is often a "seasonal" job. A foreman may make $24 an hour.

Overtime is an added half, so that would make it $20 an hour if $16 were the base pay (which may vary from one country to another).

Hazard pay adds another $4 per hour (25 percent) for EACH type of hazard.

For example:

Working on steep terrain.

Working on an uncontrolled fire.

Working at night.

On a typical jump, you'd have all of these, plus overtime for anything beyond 8 hours. So, if your shift is "over" at 4 PM and you were to jump an uncontrolled fire at 2 PM and work all night (then go home to rest), you'd have made 8 hours straight pay, 16 hours of OT, 16 hours hazpay for the steep terrain, 16 hazpay for the uncontrolled fire, and 12 hours hazpay for the night work.

Total: $1,392 for 24 hours of work. Multiply that by 85 days in a busy season and you find yet another thrill of being a smokejumper. You also get paid an "allowance" for each day you're not able to return to home base, including three meals, a place to sleep and some spending money.

Answer 2

Rookie Smoke Jumpers start at the GS-5 wage group. which is $12.00 per hour

Answer 3

what is the yearly salary for a smoke jumper

Answer 4

7000.00 dollars per hour Its a good gig