CAL Fire reviews

3.8

67% would recommend to a friend

(207 total reviews)

Joe Tyler

85% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

CAL Fire has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 207 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CAL Fire employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Government & Public Administration industry (3.6 stars).

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207 reviews
3.0
May 22, 2016

Firefighter

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lower cost of medical and dental. If hired full time you get free medical and dental for life after 20 years. Good work experience and

Cons

Low hourly pay to the point where we are making minimum wage. As the result of low hourly wages and doing everything from fighting wild fires for multiple weeks straights at times to structure fires to medical and trauma incidents you would assume our pay would show more than a local city departments which in all honestly don't do all of these things. As well if there was some sort of packet of skills and assessments to fulfill to get an offer for a permanent job.

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