Firefighters
Education
Required Level of Education
- High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED) = 35.89%
- Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in agriculture or natural resources, computer services, personal or culinary services, engineering technologies, healthcare, construction trades, mechanic and repair technologies, or precision production) = 24.60%
- Some College Courses = 19.50%
- Less than a High School Diploma = 9.36%
- Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) = 7.15%
- First Professional Degree - awarded for completion of a program that: requires at least 2 years of college work before entrance into the program, includes a total of at least 6 academic years of work to complete, and provides all remaining academic requirements to begin practice in a profession. = 2.96%
- Bachelor's Degree = 0.43%
- Doctoral Degree = 0.10%
Related Work Experience
- None = 43.89%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 18.36%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 15.31%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 10.61%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 6.14%
- Up to and including 1 month = 3.07%
- Over 6 years, up to and including 8 years = 2.40%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years = 0.11%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 0.05%
- Over 8 years, up to and including 10 years = 0.05%
On-Site or In-Plant Training
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 25.89%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 25.04%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 23.42%
- None = 8.37%
- Over 10 years = 7.43%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 7.16%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 10 years = 2.46%
- Up to and including 1 month = 0.13%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 0.10%
On-the-Job Training
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 31.17%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 21.78%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 12.65%
- Over 10 years = 11.96%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 10.63%
- None or short demonstration = 10.17%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 1.46%
- Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month = 0.18%
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