Fire Department: Special Emergency Medical Technician Pay.
Milwaukee Code of Ordinances § 350-152
in effect350-152. Fire Department: Special Emergency Medical Technician Pay.
1. POSITIONS ELIGIBLE. Employees in active service and in the position of fire chief shall be eligible for annual special emergency medical technician payments provided under this section in accordance with the terms and conditions established, as long as they are in active service and in such classification.
2. COMPENSATION. Employees who have attained and maintained state-certified emergency medical technician-1 status shall receive an amount in addition to base salary equivalent to $750.
3. ADMINISTRATION. a. Payments made under sub. 2 shall be paid as soon as administratively practicable after December 31 of the year in which they were earned. Prorata adjustment to the nearest calendar month on the basis of time served in emergency medical technician-1 status shall be made for those employees who have held emergency medical technician-1 status for less than 1 calendar year. For purposes of prorating, an employee who has held emergency medical technician-1 status for at least 14 days in a calendar month shall be deemed as having held emergency medical technician-1 status for the full calendar month; in the event an employee has held emergency medical technician-1 status less than 14 days in a calendar month, exclusive of any mandatory furlough time, the employee shall be deemed as not having held emergency medical technician-1 status at all during the calendar month.
b. An employee who separates from active service on account of voluntary resignation or normal service retirement during a calendar year shall receive the amount set forth in sub. 2 prorated on the basis of his or her active service during that calendar year computed to the nearest calendar month.
c. Except for employees who separate from active service during a calendar year on account of normal service retirement or voluntary resignation, employees must be in active service on December 31 of a calendar year in order to be eligible for that calendar year's payment.
d. Except as provided in par. e, payments made under the provisions of this section shall not be construed as being part of an employee's base pay and shall not be included in the computation of any fringe benefit.
e. An employee in active service who retires on a normal pension shall have his or her special emergency medical technician pay to a maximum of $550 included in final average salary for purposes of computing his or her normal service retirement allowance. For purposes of interpretation and construction of this section, the special emergency medical technician pay benefit to which the employee is entitled to include in the final average salary computation shall be equal to the special emergency medical technician pay payment the employee received for the calendar year immediately preceding the employee's effective date of retirement to a maximum of $550.
f. Administration and control of this section shall be by the city.
Source: City of Milwaukee Legislative Reference Bureau, Milwaukee City Charter and Code of Ordinances (city.milwaukee.gov master PDFs)URL: https://city.milwaukee.gov/ImageLibrary/Groups/ccClerk/Ordinances/Volume-3/CH350-sub7.pdf#page=8Fetched: 10/26/2026