Paramus, NJ has seventeen EMT schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. All-State Career School, the highest ranked school in this group with an EMT program, has a total student population of 202. It is the 1835th highest ranked school in the USA and the 162nd highest in the state of Pennsylvania (#1 is University of Pennsylvania).
EMT students from Paramus schools who go on to become emergency medical technicians, EMTs, paramedics, emergency medical service workers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 217,920 people working as emergency medical technicians and paramedics alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $33,020. Also, Medical and clinical laboratory technicians make on average $37,860 per year and there are about 152,420 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the New York-White Plains-Wayne-NJ Metropolitan area alone, there are 4,420 employed medical and clinical laboratory technicians earning an average salary of $46,260. Emergency medical technicians and paramedics in this area earn $42,040/yr and there are 8,770 employed.
Paramus lies in Bergen county, which is one of the 11 counties in New Jersey. Overall, the New York-White Plains-Wayne-NJ Metropolitan area has 5,063,390 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.4% unemployment rate, $27.05/hr average worker wage, and a $56,250 average annual salary. Thus, about 1.732 out of every 1000 jobs in Paramus are held by emergency medical technicians and paramedics, and 0.872/1000 are held by medical and clinical laboratory technicians.
Of the 17 EMT schools with a 100-mile radius of Paramus, only 7 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Goodwin College comes out as the most expensive ($20,165/yr) for EMT students, with Camden County College as the lowest, reported at only $3,258/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Paramus |
| Hackensack | NJ | 42,824 | 4 | 27.098 | 27 | 4.0 miles |
| Paterson | NJ | 145,162 | 2 | 18.1967 | 29 | 5.0 miles |
| Passaic | NJ | 67,055 | 0 | - | 0 | 6.5 miles |
| West Paterson | NJ | - | 1 | 20.7455 | 20 | 7.3 miles |
| Clifton | NJ | 78,248 | 4 | 27.5248 | 46 | 7.3 miles |
| Yonkers | NY | 206,441 | 3 | 17.9245 | 2 | 10.7 miles |
| Montclair | NJ | - | 3 | 25.8703 | 100 | 10.8 miles |
| North Bergen | NJ | 59,771 | 0 | - | 0 | 10.9 miles |
| Bloomfield | NJ | 48,995 | 2 | 17.5636 | 34 | 11.1 miles |
| Bronxville | NY | - | 2 | 40.2295 | 43 | 12.7 miles |
| Bronx | NY | - | 10 | 27.317 | 379 | 12.7 miles |
| Mount Vernon | NY | 68,747 | 8 | 36.4632 | 259 | 13.0 miles |
| West New York | NJ | 47,282 | 1 | 33.6373 | 6 | 13.1 miles |
| Hoboken | NJ | 41,307 | 1 | 72.0499 | 47 | 14.3 miles |
| West Orange | NJ | 49,330 | 0 | - | 0 | 14.4 miles |
| Long Island City | NY | - | 4 | 18.9499 | 59 | 15.3 miles |
| New Rochelle | NY | 74,592 | 3 | 35.7163 | 149 | 15.5 miles |
| Livingston | NJ | - | 3 | 17.1946 | 56 | 16.2 miles |
| Jersey City | NJ | 242,594 | 10 | 25.9195 | 190 | 16.2 miles |
| Newark | NJ | 279,278 | 12 | 22.0426 | 375 | 16.3 miles |
| Jackson Heights | NY | - | 1 | 28.2916 | 7 | 16.4 miles |
| South Orange | NJ | - | 1 | 63.933 | 113 | 16.7 miles |
| Whitestone | NY | - | 1 | 33.134 | 2 | 17.0 miles |
| White Plains | NY | 57,617 | 2 | 21.3371 | 15 | 17.3 miles |
| Valhalla | NY | - | 2 | 5.85535 | 54 | 18.1 miles |
| Rego Park | NY | - | 1 | 27.7974 | 9 | 18.8 miles |
| Ridgewood | NY | - | 1 | 34.5795 | 2 | 19.1 miles |
| Parsippany | NJ | - | 1 | 29.0107 | 9 | 19.3 miles |
| Union | NJ | 56,324 | 6 | 24.8766 | 160 | 19.7 miles |
| Bayonne | NJ | 57,362 | 0 | - | 0 | 19.8 miles |