About the data

How Texas Fire Salaries works

This is a community-maintained database. The site owner provides the platform, calculations, structure, and moderation tools. The Texas fire-service community provides and maintains the salary information.

Not an official source. Compensation information may be incomplete, outdated, or incorrect, and is not officially verified. Always confirm current pay, benefits, and employment terms directly with the hiring department.

Confidence labels

Instead of a mysterious score, each figure carries a plain-language label. We only use “verified” for a department’s own source documents — never for community reports.

◆Department maintained

An official department account manages the information.

▲Strong community agreement

Multiple recent contributors submitted matching information.

●Community reported

One or two contributors submitted the information.

◧Conflicting reports

Recent contributors submitted materially different values — both stay visible.

Data freshness

◉Current community report

Updated or confirmed within 12 months.

◑Update recommended

Last updated 12–18 months ago.

◍Possibly outdated

Last updated more than 18 months ago.

◔Upcoming pay plan

The effective date is in the future.

Base pay vs reported compensation

Firefighters often work long shift schedules, and “annual pay” can mean very different things. We always keep base salary separate from reported total compensation (which may include scheduled overtime and incentives), and we show an effective hourly figure using scheduled annual hours so a 24/48 department can be compared fairly with a 40-hour one. Comparisons warn you when two figures aren’t directly comparable.

Who can do what

Visitors browse, search, map, compare, and view history — no account needed.
Registered contributors (verified email) add departments, submit pay and steps, confirm, and dispute. Routine submissions publish without owner approval.
Trusted contributors earn faster publishing and can suggest duplicate merges after a track record of accepted, community-confirmed submissions. No one can erase revision history.
Department representatives claim their page with an official email and earn a “Department maintained” badge — while the community can still submit corrections.
Administrators handle spam, abuse, claims, and duplicates. They do not research or approve every normal update.
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