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I'm not in the field, but my observations are there are jobs for medics here. I know AMR serves Longmont and I believe Boulder. Fort Collins is served by the hospital system (poudre valley?). Denver is done by Denver health I think it is. Up north for the bigger cities, Loveland, Westminster, Thornton, Frederick/firestone, broomfield, Lafayette, Louisville, northglenn and I'm sure I'm forgetting some, they are all department based medics.
No clue on pay, I'm sure it's quite low on the private ems side, it's always been that way.
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This is all true. I worked as a Medic in the metro area for 19 years, before needing to move away for sanity reasons. There is a limit to the number of stoners that you can take care of before you are ready to just walk away for ever.
To fly, both FFL and AL require your weight to be under 220 LBS, and fitting into an AS350 or 407 at your height would be a challenge. Heck fitting my 5'10 self into an AS350 is a challenge most of the time and frequently leaves me as a sore grumpy guy after a few flights.
Boulder (city) did a one year RFP with AMR mid last year, so that will be up soon and there is no clear indication as to where this will go. I'm sure that it's just like AMR everywhere else in the country.
Denver Health (still DG in my brain) does their own this in Denver city/county their pay is the best in the area, but they are a very high volume system.
Apex Paramedics is run by some very good folks, currently they are just doing back up work for Arvada and Denver as well as IFT and CCT work, but their pay is also very good. The leadership at Apex is full of good folks.
Stadium is run by a good guy as well, no idea on pay though. Stadium does mostly special events and IFT work.
Western, Mile High Ambulance, Capital City Ambulance, Columbine Ambulance are other small groups in the metro area that fight for scraps.
Falk, they do the transports for Aurora Fire and AFD has medical control on all calls. IMHO it's a ambulance = taxi kind of thing doing city to suburban work.
AMR also does the work for Colorado Springs Fire. and Pueblo IIRC