Program Payoff

Fire Protection programs in South Carolina

3 schools in South Carolina teach this, at certificate or associate level. The Department of Education publishes earnings for none of them, so the figures below are what the occupation itself pays.

What this work pays in South Carolina

Firefighters in South Carolina earn a median of $42,570 a year across 7,780 jobs. That is what the occupation pays everyone in it — not what graduates of any one program below earned.

Also leads toMedianJobs in South Carolina
Managers, All Other$129,9602,210
Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary$79,6101,980
First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers$65,1601,450
Fire Inspectors and Investigators$61,890110

Occupation wages: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025.

Schools

SchoolCredentialMedian debtGraduate earnings, 2 yrsGraduates
Greenville Technical College Greenville Undergraduate certificate not published 0
Greenville Technical College Greenville Associate's degree not published 1
Piedmont Technical College Greenwood Undergraduate certificate not published 0

A dash under earnings or debt means the U.S. Department of Education has not published a figure for that program — it withholds any median computed from too few graduates, which covers about four of every five programs. It never means zero, and it says nothing about whether the program is any good. Where a figure is shown, the number of graduates behind it is shown with it.

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Program and outcome figures: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, released 2026-06-10.