JACKSONVILLE, Fla \u2014 The City of Jacksonville says it\u2019s hiring lifeguards for the upcoming 2026 pool season. <\/p>\n
The city says the job is open to anyone 15 years old or older, and \u201coffering a great way for teens and young adults to gain valuable work experience while serving their community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Starting pay is $15 an hour, and training is available. Applicants will receive training in water safety, rescue techniques, and CPR.<\/p>\n
The prerequisite skills for the job include:<\/p>\n
A 200-yard swim.Two minutes of treading water without using your hands.Retrieving a 10-pound brick from the bottom of the diving well.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re interested, you can apply at the City of Jacksonville website<\/a>, email bealifeguard@coj.net or call 904-255-6777 or 904-255-4271<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen to Jacksonville\u2019s Morning News Interviews<\/a><\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n \u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla \u2014 The City of Jacksonville says it\u2019s hiring lifeguards for the upcoming 2026 pool season. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[796,9024,794,28,116,118,117,58914,795,349,91338],"class_list":["post-197970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-796","tag-city-of-jacksonville","tag-duval","tag-florida","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-lifeguard","tag-ne-florida","tag-northeast-florida","tag-pool-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}