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title: "Offshore Medic"
description: "A paramedic stationed on oil platforms, vessels, or remote industrial sites to provide emergency and routine medical care to workers."
canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/careers/offshore-medic"
last-updated: "2026-10-09T10:57:55.138Z"
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# Offshore Medic

**Category:** Healthcare Practitioners and Technical · **SOC code:** 29-2043 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 29-2043.00

A paramedic stationed on oil platforms, vessels, or remote industrial sites to provide emergency and routine medical care to workers.

Also advertised as: Offshore Paramedic; Rig Medic; Platform Medic; Remote Site Medic; Industrial Paramedic.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $60,600 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $29.13/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $44,230 to $84,850, with the middle half between $49,660 and $73,470
- **Total US employment:** 100,610
- **Typical entry education:** Certificate
- **Preparation required:** Some preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +5.7% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 4,300 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 67/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure

## Pay

National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 100,610 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $44,230 |
| 25th | $49,660 |
| 50th (median) | $60,600 |
| 75th | $73,470 |
| 90th | $84,850 |
| Mean (average) | $63,360 |

### Pay by state

The 15 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there.

| State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WA | $104,310 | $97,474 | 2,110 |
| NJ | $86,630 | $79,620 | 540 |
| HI | $81,280 | $73,924 | 140 |
| DC | $78,550 | $71,473 | 90 |
| CT | $77,480 | $74,780 | 1,000 |
| MN | $76,300 | $77,367 | 1,690 |
| OR | $74,840 | $72,406 | 1,210 |
| CA | $74,590 | $67,368 | 5,190 |
| NY | $73,200 | $67,827 | 6,110 |
| AK | $71,860 | $70,204 | 310 |
| MD | $66,660 | $63,511 | 1,910 |
| MA | $66,340 | $62,729 | 1,860 |
| UT | $65,420 | $66,172 | 960 |
| DE | $64,240 | $64,364 | 340 |
| NH | $64,210 | $61,643 | 420 |

37 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 52 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/offshore-medic/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/offshore-medic.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 102,200 in the 2025–2035 base year to 108,000 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 5,800 jobs, or +5.7%. Faster than average: 5.7% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 4,300 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2025–2035.

## How to get in

- **Typical entry education:** Postsecondary nondegree award (BLS Employment Projections).
- **Preparation level:** Some preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** Less than 5 years.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** None.

## What the work involves

- Run the medical clinic on an offshore platform or vessel
- Treat occupational injuries and illnesses among crew members
- Stabilize critical patients and coordinate helicopter evacuations
- Consult shore-based physicians through radio and telemedicine
- Conduct drug and alcohol testing and health screenings
- Inspect food, water, and living quarters for hygiene
- Maintain medical supplies and emergency equipment
- Teach first aid and safety courses to crew

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Critical Thinking — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Listening — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Learning Strategies — importance 2.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Transferable skills

These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site.

- Service Orientation — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Social Perceptiveness — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Complex Problem Solving — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Persuasion — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Instructing — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Operation and Control — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- Medicine and Dentistry — importance 4.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 4.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Public Safety and Security — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Customer and Personal Service — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Biology — importance 3.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Education and Training — importance 3.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Problem Sensitivity — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Deductive Reasoning — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Inductive Reasoning — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Comprehension — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Expression — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Near Vision — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

## Who it suits

O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Social (S), Realistic (R), Investigative (I).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| S — Social | 5.64 |
| R — Realistic | 5.26 |
| I — Investigative | 5.03 |
| C — Conventional | 3.42 |
| E — Enterprising | 1.91 |
| A — Artistic | 1.00 |

### Personality fit

These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job.

| Type | Fit score (0–100) |
| --- | --- |
| ISFJ | 70.8 |
| ISTJ | 67.7 |
| ISFP | 61.4 |
| ISTP | 59.9 |
| ESTJ | 58.3 |

Best-fitting types: ISFJ, ISTJ.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [Paramedic](https://nuecareer.com/careers/paramedic) — median $60,600
- [Emergency Medical Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/emergency-medical-technician) — median $44,470
- [Registered Nurse](https://nuecareer.com/careers/registered-nurse) — median $97,550
- [Acute Care Nurse](https://nuecareer.com/careers/acute-care-nurse) — median $97,550
- [Licensed Practical Nurse](https://nuecareer.com/careers/licensed-practical-nurse) — median $64,400
- [Critical Care Nurse](https://nuecareer.com/careers/critical-care-nurse) — median $97,550
- [Surgical Assistant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/surgical-assistant) — median $66,800
- [Respiratory Therapist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/respiratory-therapist) — median $82,280
- [Nursing Assistant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/nursing-assistant) — median $42,260
- [Ambulance Driver and Attendant, Except Emergency Medical Technicians](https://nuecareer.com/careers/ambulance-driver-and-attendant) — median $35,450

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2025–2035. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

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