A lot of the hours is also down time though. If there's no calls, I'm sure they do maintenance work or chill out at the station.
One of my old supervisors used to work as some sort of clerk for the Richmond FD back in the 80's and told me that many had drug addiction problems. This is just hearsay though, so I'm not certain how accurate this is.

I think it doesnt matter if there is plenty of down time, because from personal experience, I can stay in the office doing nothing for a day, and still feel tired by the end of the day of my 8 hr work.

i'm for taking the cash also... a had a mechanic friend who worked mad long hours and banked it all and when the shop ran into trouble and closed he lost both his bank time and his last paycheck when it bounced :(

hey guys sorry for the late response....im not actually doing fire fighting right now...im helping my uncle out and working as a medical and rescue responder for a construction project in the boonies....i work 3 week on 1 week off shifts...

and yes...i make more than 75K a year + bonuses and shit....

anyways ya, well im gonna take a test run i get my first 2week paycheque tomorrow....

and then on the next pay cheque i will have one week of pay(since i have 1 of the 2 weeks off) and see how much of a difference i get...

then i will try to adjust accordingly if banking of hours will net me some extra income from the taxman.

jesus christ.. 3 weeks on 1 week off? thats worse then working in the oil fields.. there is no way in hell i could do that.. the most ive done is 7 days 12 hour shifts.. i was dead after it

You will not get "extra income" from the taxman, you'll just make less and pay less accordingly in tax.

If you're losing a lot of money to the taxman (cause the accountant cannot predict how much you'll make annually and tax you accordingly), you'll get it back in Apr.

21 days working and 7 days off is about what most of us get 20 days working and 8 days off. I'd take the cash, not bank the hours.

bank it

unless u dont mind waiting for a year to finally see some cash


OT is fucking stupid, say u made $1000, by the time the OT taxes kick in you should be thankful if u see $6 bill in ur bank after all that bs.

There's a lot of dumb people on here.

Please read this: http://www.taxtips.ca/taxrates/bc.htm

The highest tax rate in BC is 43.7% and that's only if your OT pushes you into making $126K.

The OP makes $75K, so even if OT pushed him to $100K, he'll ONLY be losing 6% more on his OT pay than regular pay.

get it paid out :P

thanks all

not to judge, but it sounds like you are not very physically fit.