Fire Department
Data received May 2022
Full-time employees
53
Median pay
$84,468
Average pay
$88,426
Fire Department
Employees by pay range
Note: To learn how the Post-Dispatch calculates figures such as the number of full-time employees or median pay, as well as other important explanations and caveats, please see the About page.
Employees
Click on one of the headers below to sort a column. Data shown reflects actual gross pay for 2021, except where noted otherwise.
| Position | Gross pay | Date hired | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acre, Jordan | Firefighter/Paramedic | $74,270 | Dec. 27, 2019 |
| Bay, Johnnie | Fire Engineer | $81,248 | Nov. 13, 1995 |
| Bazzoni, Michael | Fire Captain | $98,794 | May 15, 2006 |
| Burns, Tyler | Firefighter/Paramedic | $81,111 | May 15, 2014 |
| Campbell, Larry | Firefighter/Paramedic | $81,377 | Oct. 4, 2004 |
| Dahm, Charles | Fire Captain | $101,560 | March 19, 1989 |
| Davila, Daniel | Fire Engineer | $91,123 | Nov. 28, 1991 |
| Dempsey, Ryan | Firefighter/Paramedic | $85,024 | Nov. 11, 2015 |
| Drumm, Phillip | Firefighter/Paramedic | $78,939 | Jan. 27, 2017 |
| Feth, Terry | Fire Engineer | $81,248 | Sept. 21, 1988 |
| Fischer, Daniel | Firefighter/Paramedic | $83,872 | Aug. 12, 2010 |
| Fischer, Dennis | Fire Marshall | $105,298 | Dec. 27, 1986 |
| Fischer, Thomas | Fire Engineer | $81,269 | Feb. 6, 2009 |
| Goss, Nancy | Fire Engineer | $89,055 | Oct. 24, 1995 |
| Hayes, Craig | Fire Captain | $105,364 | Oct. 26, 1995 |
| Higginbotham, Nathan | Firefighter/Paramedic | $78,493 | June 5, 2015 |
| House, Timothy | Firefighter/Paramedic | $84,209 | April 26, 2006 |
| Hoylman, Bonnie | Admin Associate-Fire | $57,271 | April 15, 1993 |
| Janes, Justin | Fire Captain | $108,163 | Dec. 20, 2002 |
| Johnson, Johnny | Firefighter/Paramedic | $77,103 | Nov. 9, 2015 |
| Jones, Daryle | Fire Engineer | $84,188 | June 14, 1993 |
| Kandzetovic, Eldin | Firefighter/Paramedic | $75,284 | Aug. 13, 2019 |
| Kelly, Sean | Firefighter/Paramedic | $81,269 | Oct. 21, 2011 |
| Kertz, Bryan | Firefighter/Paramedic | $78,570 | Nov. 4, 2015 |
| Knapp, Steven | Fire Captain | $104,823 | June 19, 1999 |
| Lawson, Robert | Firefighter/Paramedic | $76,889 | May 12, 2014 |
| Leadbetter, Justin | Firefighter/Paramedic | $77,221 | Aug. 26, 2019 |
| Light, Ryan | Firefighter/Paramedic | $84,964 | March 19, 2008 |
| Lofquist, Jeffrey | Firefighter/Paramedic | $90,230 | Jan. 24, 2011 |
| Mathes, Matthew | Firefighter/Paramedic | $87,645 | March 5, 2013 |
| Murray, Patrick | Firefighter/Paramedic | $75,764 | July 10, 1997 |
| Orr, Duane | Fire Engineer | $84,468 | March 6, 1992 |
| Palmer, Jeremy | Firefighter/Paramedic | $86,824 | April 12, 2011 |
| Reifschneider, Jacob | Firefighter/Paramedic | $79,263 | Aug. 29, 2019 |
| Sanders, Scott | Firefighter/Paramedic | $88,311 | April 10, 2003 |
| Silvernail, James | Fire Chief | $148,156 | May 16, 2016 |
| Smith, David | Deputy Fire Chief | $112,744 | Feb. 18, 1999 |
| Sommer, James | Fire Engineer | $87,306 | May 14, 1996 |
| Stewart, Calvin | Firefighter/Paramedic | $86,862 | June 14, 1993 |
| Straatmann, Dale | Fire Captain | $103,933 | Feb. 29, 1992 |
| Strbac, Zlatan | Firefighter/Paramedic | $71,525 | April 17, 2020 |
| Stremlau, Nicholas | Firefighter/Paramedic | $81,254 | May 10, 2018 |
| Sullivan, Donald | Fire Engineer | $84,641 | Sept. 10, 1998 |
| Sumpter, Robert | Fire Captain | $111,410 | May 17, 1996 |
| Swain, Joseph | Firefighter/Paramedic | $71,491 | April 9, 2020 |
| Tallis, Frank | Fire Captain | $109,297 | April 18, 1989 |
| Triplett, Nicholas | Firefighter/Paramedic | $69,410 | Jan. 6, 2021 |
| Ulses, Nicholas | Firefighter/Paramedic | $76,361 | Sept. 18, 2017 |
| Whelan, Timothy | Firefighter/Paramedic | $81,248 | April 13, 2009 |
| Wiley, John | Fire Captain | $110,697 | April 9, 2003 |
Note: To learn how the Post-Dispatch calculates figures such as the number of full-time employees or median pay, as well as other important explanations and caveats, please see the About page.