That's the salary for a registered Paramedic including unsocial hours payment and London's high-cost living allowance. Tom's figure is an EMT's wage and he (hopefully) hasn't included those enhancements. Either way, I feel the profession as a whole is woefully underpaid! Still, we can always just cram overtime into the few hours we actually get off work; not so much to make more cash, more so we have no chance to spend any of it!