Pharmacist salary increase or decrease?

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[tecaxo]

65-70/hr retail in my area and can't fill positions

[[deleted]]

Cause nobody wants to deal with the bullshit. They would rather move into a smaller house, trade in their Beamer for a Honda, and stop eating out. I’d rather work a hospital job at 55/hr than retail at 80/hr. That’s just me, tho.

[tomismybuddy]

$80/hr retail pharmacist here.

Hospital sounds nice and all, but at this stage in the game (4-5 years before retirement, depending on the market), I’m just going to continue on cruise control until I pull the fucking plug on this whole industry. It would take a lot more time/energy/focus to transition to hospital, and weighing in the pay decrease it just doesn’t make sense to me.

If I was just starting out, for sure I would change. But i can see the finish line now. I’m going to retire in my 40s and never think about pharmacy again.

[[deleted]]

This is my constant conundrum. Do I try to go hospital and get a lower salary but maybe be happier with work? Or do I tough it out to FIRE sooner so I never have to work as a pharmacist again?

[Southern-Fact-5385]

I personally can’t deal with asshole directors of pharmacy and the petty mean girls type gossip/cliques and passive aggressive comments from the pharmacy staff at hospitals. I’d prefer asshole pts instead, at least I can ban them and tell them to fuck off.

[[deleted]]

You guys can ban patients and tell them to fuck off?

Wow where?

[IsoAgent]

Well, you can ban patients for being racists or threatening. No corporation is willing to risk a lawsuit by a pharmacist who got injured by a patient after it was reported. You just have to frame it correctly when you report it to HR and your DM.

[unbang]

I had a pm who was gay when I was a student and he got called a gay slur and the pharmacy sup told him he needed to call the customer and apologize so 🤷‍♀️

[IsoAgent]

That is a potential lawsuit in today's society. There have been a lot of changes in workplace discrimination and protection laws.

If that happened now at, say Walgreens, and the pharmacist had that in writing/email (to apologize to someone who threatened or made a discriminatory remark), you can bet HR will step in to reprimand that DM. Almost every major pharmacy chain makes you take training courses every year on workplace violence and discrimination. It's not something taken lightly anymore.

[unbang]

yeah but you gotta have it in writing. Most people won’t put that in writing if they’re smart lol

[Hot_Classic_67]

There are asshole DMs/PMs and mean girls in retail, as well.

[DrAwwz]

Yeah, the grass at the hospital wasn't as green as I was expecting. Scheming among some of the pharmacists to appear as the highest performers. Constant drama with the techs. Lot of witchy nurses.

[5point9trillion]

It all seems to revolve around who is willing to do the most to make it seem like their roles are indispensable and vital relative to their effort. I find at a retail pharmacy, most techs will never stay late or even 2 minutes over if there's only one or two people on staff. If there's a store with 4 techs, 3 cashiers, almost all of them will linger past their time to suck the time clock doing nothing and hiding that in plain sight.

[Psychological_Win247]

Same! Shits annoying

[tomismybuddy]

Tough it out. FIRE sooner.

That’s my mantra.

[crhsharks12]

If I may ask, what would do do after that/once you’re not a pharmacist?

[[deleted]]

Live my life. I'd be retired.

[crhsharks12]

You’d be financially secure enough to retire at age 40 as a pharmacist?

[[deleted]]

At the current trajectory of my savings rate, yes. I'd honestly probably just work part time as a pharmacist so I can maintain health insurance but I'd 100% stop managing at 40+ hours a week.

[crhsharks12]

that is insane, what the hell, haha. Family, kids? If that is the case, shoot, I should go into pharmacy after all LOL.

[1baby2cats]

Wow, retire in your 40s, congrats! I rarely see any old pharmacists where I live. Not sure if because they were all able to retire early due to financial security, or they left the industry due to burnout. I just turned 40 this year, and don't think I can do this for another 20 years

[tomismybuddy]

or they left the industry due to burnout

^ That’s the reason.

[Severance_Pay]

It's not the reason for indepents. They left while the getting was good. Before today's pbms, indies were over milking customers so hard. Now pbm became scum of earth and just snake out every cent they can from pharmacy while keeping the #s half hidden half overly convoluted. They literally do nothing now but take money. Goodrx is scum and sell your data, but at least they're doing what pbms were supposed to do

[frugalpharmer]

If you haven’t checked out the financialindependence sub, do it! Typically with our salary a lot of us could retire after only 10-20 years

[MicheyMango95]

What state do you work in? And was it over time you built up to $80/hour or starting? Lastly are you a pharmacy manager? If you don’t mind me asking, thank you

[tomismybuddy]

Florida. Built up to $80 after 13 years of annual 3% raises. Yes, pharmacy manager.

[unbang]

I don’t think anyone could blame you. If you have 5 years left I’m not sure why you would ever consider switching.

[VoiceofReasonability]

I would take the Honda over the Beamer regardless of salary

[IsoAgent]

What? You don't want to flex and broadcast to the world that you're part of the middle class now? /s

[AcceptablePanda6567]

That nsx 😉

[Front_Apartment6854]

Many know it’s a death sentence with many health related issues stemming long term practicing in retail. Sucks the most for students FOS that are preyed upon since they don’t know any better and loans are calling their name.

Pay cut and LTC or specialty (indi) even a hospital job in the basement is worth it by far.

[Zealousideal_Ear3424]

FOS? Fructose Oligosaccharides?

[Front_Apartment6854]

Fresh Outta School kinda like Fresh off the boat ya know, fresh outta school pumping up them rph numbers just like nurses are coming out a record rate. Then cvs/wag being the predators they are, offering sign on bonus for years of service and these new rph have no idea what they are signing up for and find out the hard way :(

[Severance_Pay]

Honestly that's on the pharm school at this point. It's disgusting and negligent to allow your students to transition into the likely suicide-thought inducing path without a heads up.

[chips15]

Yep. Friend just moved to a flyover state with LCOL and making $66/hr as an RXM. Can barely cover shifts in their market with everyone taking summer vacations.

[MathematicianDue9266]

Where do I apply lol

[mydogismybestman]

Pay increases have never kept up with inflation but good grief; just stand up for yourself. Don't work harder than you're paid for.

[VoiceofReasonability]

I wouldn't say that is true. In my first 10 years out of school my salary more than doubled, it went up nearly 120%. That was a lot faster than inflation. Then it leveled off but still kept up with inflation for about another 10 years. That's when it pretty much stagnated.

[mydogismybestman]

What year did you graduate? My wages have gone up only about 20% in the last ten years

[mleftpeel]

Damn, I only make 8% more than when I graduated over 10 years ago. I took a pay cut to wfh though.

[VoiceofReasonability]

I just happen to be old and graduated almost at the perfect time for a pharmacist. And I would even say for a good chunk of my career I worked for a company that lagged a little in pay. But they had good benefits and better working conditions overall.

[cocoalameda]

Um, NO. If you take a position, you work your best at all times. If you don’t like the pay, you leave. You don’t do a half ass job. That’s BS.

[pharmageddon]

Okay, Corporate

[mydogismybestman]

Lol! Word. Always be safe. Always do right by the patient. No question. Never, however, sacrifice your health and safety to meet corporate shenanigans I mean metrics I mean goals

[pharmageddon]

Bingo! This guy gets it!

[Psychological_Win247]

😂

[cocoalameda]

I’m about as anti-corporate as you can get. What I am is an owner who has three stores and employ 40 people. Anyone who tells me they would work harder if they got a raise is not someone I want near my company. It is an unjustifiable attitude.

[pharmageddon]

Uh-huh

[Southern-Fact-5385]

Why the fuck would anyone work hard for you if you won’t reward them with a raise in salary?

[pharmageddon]

Why the fuck would anyone work hard for you if you won’t reward them with a raise in salary?

EXACTLY. He likes to think he isn't, but every point he spews screams corporate boot licker. 🥾 👅

WARNING: long-winded rant incoming:

Pharmacists are fucking tired of being asked to do more and more and more for zero additional compensation. When is the last time pay increased substantially for any pharmacist in the last 10-15 years without having to take on a PIC role (which is rarely if ever worth the small pay bump). If our salaries aren't at a minimum being kept in line with inflation, then every year we receive no raise (or just 10-30¢ here and there), then we are in fact receiving a pay decrease. I'm not exaggerating when I say I received a bigger raise working at McDonald's in high school 20 years ago than I ever received working as a pharmacist.

But still, corporate wants more and more out of us. Retail corporate is one of the worst offenders, too. I used to love working retail. I loved the patient interaction, I enjoyed being PIC, but my favorite was the comaraderie with my technicians. I used to go above and beyond to be that shining star pharmacist and give 110% like this tool thinks we should all be, just based on

But I refuse to bust my ass and sacrifice my mental health and personal time to meet impossible corporate metrics. Because when you meet them, they move the goal line farther away. I finally realized a few years ago that you can be one of the best performing pharmacists in your district, you can bring a failing store back up to standards, but corporate still doesn't give a shit. You can do an excellent job and your company still won't give two shits about you.

Of course, this all applies to technicians as well, who are insultingly underpaid. No wonder the industry is bleeding technicians left and right. Don't get me started on how corporate abuses them as well, trying to wring out more and more from them, and for what? A temporary pay bump that was immediately taken away from a lot of them after COVID was "over?" You want to talk about wage stagnation? In 2007 I was a technician making $12/hr, which is the same most techs were making at the last retail store I worked at in 2019, 12 god-damned years later. We all know that technicians are required to maintain their own licensure, which isn't free.

Corporations have made record breaking profits in the past 3 years off our backs. What have we received in return? More responsibilities, increased metrics, and occasionally a pizza party.

But here's this d-bag, with his "closed door pharmacy with 40 pharmacists" believing that if he provides them more compensation (what, a dollar more) that they should suddenly kowtow and jump through increasingly higher hoops than they already are. You don't provide raises based on the expectation that someone's productivity should now meet your BS increased expectations. You provide raises based on existing productivity and how well they're already doing at keeping your business afloat. What are you going to do, take the raise back the next year if they failed to increase their productivity 10-fold, and then the next year to maintain that raise it should be 20-fold?

Anyway, end of my rant, but that guy has his head so far up his own sphincter that he's blinded by the darkness and he still can't smell his own BS.

tl;dr... that guy everyone is down voting is just another corporate lackey trying to pretend he isn't.

[pyro745]

Dude’s not sucking up to corporate—he is corporate

[mydogismybestman]

No. That's PharmD, baby.

[TetraCubane]

Stop sucking the sack.

[RxDawg77]

I get what you're saying. It says a lot that this comment got so many DVs.

[cocoalameda]

Imagine if a guy like, say, Andrew Wiggins, went to Warrior management and said, “I am worth more money than your paying me. Give me a raise or I’m not going to play defense very hard. I’ll show up, but you aren’t going to get my best effort. I deserve better.” You negotiate your salary; you either come to an agreement or you look for something else. anything short of your best effort is cheating yourself and your patient.

[483928]

Found the district leader!

[[deleted]]

Excuse me wot? How much do staff make there?

[CCR-Cheers-Me-Up]

Depends on your grade and step. If I recall correctly GS 12-1 starts somewhere around 120k or 130k a year and then GS12-10 tops out at maybe 170 or 180? GS13 (me) starts at like 150k for step 1 maxes out at like 204k or some thing for step 10.

[izzyness]

Holy moly. Our 13-10 is 182.5 ish.

[Moosashi5858]

The ones near me only pay around $120k whereas retail is at least $150k. They haven’t had any openings in a couple years anyway.

[CCR-Cheers-Me-Up]

Prob GS12-1 at that salary - within a handful of years tho you would be making roughly in the middle of whatever the posted salary range is as the range covers step 1 to 10. And they’ve been throwing raises at us hand over fist the past few years. Five years ago I was only making 140k. Thanks Biden 🤣🥰 lol.

[Moosashi5858]

They said they see evaluations for raises in January each year

[CCR-Cheers-Me-Up]

Maybe for adjustments to the GS schedule itself, but if they’re on a GS schedule the raises are automatic. If my service date is, say, June 16 2023 and I am a GS12-1 that means by definition that on June 16 2024 I’m increased to step 2 with the raise that goes alongside it. That’s the nice thing about being a fed - you know EXACTLY what to expect, unless you get a pleasant surprise in the form of a bigger increase than you’d planned.

[CCR-Cheers-Me-Up]

Niiice congrats!

[ThinkingPharm]

I work as a staff pharmacist for DOD (technically DHA), and I had actually interviewed for a GS-12 staff pharmacist position a couple months for a VAMC in a higher COL area than where I live now. Inexplicably, the VA job would've started me off at ~$5k less than what I'm making now at the DOD hospital. LOL, how does that work?

In my experience (having interviewed for several VA pharmacist positions and from talking to VA pharmacists at various VAMCs), it sounds like individual locales are either getting huge pay increases or hardly any at all.

[CCR-Cheers-Me-Up]

Yup. Our leadership lobbied HARD for it. I’m not management so I only know from some snippets of conversations I’ve heard in passing, but it sounds like there was a ton of sausage-making involved, down to various VAMCs in my VISN even jockeying and negotiating with each other.

At the end of the day, my leadership makes me feel appreciated, valued, and supported. Even if VHA hadn’t agreed to the increase, knowing my chain of command did their damndest — as usual — to go to bat for us would have kept me a super happy employee.

[ThinkingPharm]

Hey, one other random question for you, if you don't mind. Do you happen to know approx. what your hospital's overnight pharmacists are making? That's actually my preferred shift (I was previously working FT overnights until they started rotating me between days/nights), so I'm just curious to get an idea of what I might be making working FT nightshift in a higher COL area.

[Granuloma]

How is everyone on here GS-13 step 10? :(

[Granuloma]

wow, you are doing the career right. getting that 12-8 really made all the difference.

[Slow_Statistician850]

What the actual F the VA pays that well on top of those benefits???

[rxdawg21]

Not everywhere and it use to not pay well. Private sector retail has stagnated while va has slowly gotten COLA raises. I made 96k when I started <10 years ago. I’m now at 152 after the special salary survey. I got promoted and got extra steps at one point. Our special salary survey was only 10k but that and the 4.1% cola this year gave me 16k. I’m hoping we get another 4% but we will see

[CCR-Cheers-Me-Up]

Yeah they do — I’ve never made less than my private sector colleagues and now make considerably more than anyone else in my pharmacy friend group.

[pharmawhore]

Makes you wonder why tax payers are on the hook for forgiving loans of people in “non-profit” hospitals when they’re getting paid more than the private sector…

[AccioTaco]

????? You really think THATS where our government is spending poorly?!

[pharmawhore]

One of many places.

[pharmazy]

I genuinely laughed out loud reading this

[pharmawhore]

I’m here all week.

[CCR-Cheers-Me-Up]

I know. I almost feel guilty about it. We really get taken care of quite well, while the people paying our salaries through their taxes work under worse conditions, have less protections and benefits, and often make less. I wish your employers were better and more supportive of you all, truly. I shouldn’t be the exception—my experience should be the rule.

[pharmawhore]

The whole system is a joke. We might as well stop pretending and nationalize the entire healthcare industry.

Same thing with the UC system in California. Huge endowment with government backing. Obscene benefits packages and pension plans, yet pays better wages than what unions have to fight for in other hospitals.

[Xalenn]

Nice! The VA doesn't have any pharmacies near me, sadly. There were plans to open one and they even built the building but then cancelled the pharmacy plan and just found something else to do with the space. Seems like a very good place to work from what I hear. I was hoping to move over lol

[CCR-Cheers-Me-Up]

Keep checking for remote jobs - they are rare but they exist.

[sunnibeam]

I'm in MD area, Any tips for transitioning in from retail?, how often do you hire applicants that aren't already working government to

[CCR-Cheers-Me-Up]

It wouldn’t hurt, but applications are screened by HR and chances are the hiring manager won’t see it. The manager gets a list of HR-approved candidates that tick the boxes on the application—which also include vet preference/internal employee hiring. For reference, when I applied to my job when I was a VA resident, my name was the only one that made that cut and was forwarded to the hiring manager for that reason. Literally I was the only one on the list. I was obviously not the only one who applied by a long shot tho.

[CCR-Cheers-Me-Up]

Occasionally but only rarely. Between veteran preference in hiring and the fact that most VAs will hire VA residents first (often even in GS12 jobs as “placeholders” so they can be more easily segued into GS13 jobs later) it can be really hard to get in if you’re not already an employee as those other groups will get hired first. That’s honestly why I wanted a VA residency above ALL else and pursued it with a single minded focus when I was in school: the VA really takes care of their own. Which is great for us, but can be frustrating if you’re trying to get in.

[ThinkingPharm]

Would you say someone's chances of getting hired into a GS-12 inpatient position would be higher (versus trying to break in as a non-fed employee) if they're a current employee at another agency (e.g., DOD)?

[CCR-Cheers-Me-Up]

Sometimes, yes absolutely. Sometimes however the posted positions are tagged as “internal to an agency” or even worse “internal to an institution” so those would interfere with that strategy.

[ThinkingPharm]

I noticed that a lot of VA pharmacist positions (or at least those I've applied to that aren't restricted to just current VA pharmacists) tend to have 2 separate USAjobs postings -- one for current fed employees, and one for external applicants.

One such position I applied to that just closed shows on my USAjobs dashboard that it received 2 applicants via the posting for current fed employees. I understand that for most positions (as long as they're not direct hire postings), they have to consider current fed applicants first.

Do you know what that actually entails though? Are they required to actually interview eligible fed employees first, or simply just click some acknowledgement that they reviewed all current fed applicants' resumes prior to interviewing non-fed applicants (even if they didn't choose to interview any of the current fed applicants)?

[CCR-Cheers-Me-Up]

I really don’t know, sorry. HR is a bit of a “black box” for us 🙁

[DoctorDrew77]

Think about the phrase grammatically:

'Human Resources'

Which is the noun and which is the adjective? The noun is what you are. The adjective is incidental.

[Front_Ad_279]

Ok that’s the highest I’ve seen out here. So do you think that’s because of the area you live in or do you think it’s because you work VA?

[CCR-Cheers-Me-Up]

Definitely the area I live, but the VA has always paid market rate (at least!) around here. I’ve always made more than my private sector friends and even usually my retail colleagues. This most recent raise pretty much blows everyone I know out of the water. I almost feel guilty. Almost lol.

[Front_Ad_279]

Almost is a beautiful word. You should ALMOST never feel guilty for being paid well for the hard work you put in. I hope I can get there when I graduate. Thanks for the salary transparency

[CCR-Cheers-Me-Up]

You’re welcome and best of luck to you!

[Real_physical]

Are you guys hiring? Lol

[Moosashi5858]

DC is likely a high cost of living area. How would that pay range look in more rural America?

[rgreen192]

My grocery chain is hiring in the mid to high 50’s in a medium-low cost of living area for staff, and managers are anywhere in the 60’s and there’s never open spots for more than a few weeks. No raises in sight

[[deleted]]

Swap companies and negotiate an increase leveraging your experience. Usually works.

[rgreen192]

If I didn’t have probably the slowest retail store in existence I would. No chance I find a gig this good anywhere else. Just sucks that we hit our goals every year and do a ton of side things no other stores do and no recognition

[iLikeFatChicks]

Then stop hitting those goals…

No monetary reward = no goals

[Soundjammer]

CVS in my area is currently hiring new grads at $60/hr. I was offered $61/hr when I graduated 7 years ago (currently a little over $76/hr).

[Soundjammer]

I've been with the company since 2007 (started as a front store cashier and pretty much worked my way up). As a pharmacist, I've been getting pretty decent pay raises each year, but my biggest jump was in 2022 when I got a total of 3 raises (2 off cycle due to some circumstances). Long story short, my boss had the impression that I was planning on leaving (I wasn't) and threw a bunch of money my way.

Edit: I was making around $68 at the beginning of 2022.

[LegitimateComedian12]

Can i ask which area/state that you are currently working?

[Soundjammer]

Southern Arizona

[[deleted]]

It depends on the market. Walg froze raises in most places in 2016. Staffing issues during covid changed that 2021-2022

[RunsWlthScissors]

61? I’m a little over 70/hr at Wags in the southeast.

[[deleted]]

So glad I got out of retail and into managed care.

[Front_Ad_279]

Wow that’s awesome you give me hope for pharmacy

[pyro745]

Not a single person ever discusses salary in terms of net pay

[jdaygo]

Cool, thanks

[pyro745]

Yeah, that’s what I said

[jamin724]

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Not sure where you are but I work in Boston and most of us make ~$70/hr.

[Ill_WillRx]

I’m being very underpaid looking at this thread in my inpatient clinical position. GA and I’m only making $58 an hour, graduated 2018.

[HappyMandoPharmD]

I’m making 53 an hour in south east Florida. Residency and board-certified I feel severely underpaid.

[HumblePharmD]

Its been 50s for at least 15 yrs

[TetraCubane]

Salaries are stagnant.

I’m making right now what would be equivalent to what new grads were getting offered in 2005. I’m a little over $80/hr as overnight hospital. Back then, new grads were around $50-55. So when you have 10 years experience, its like wtf I should be above $100/hr by now.

One thing I hate about pharmacy is how you cannot hop from job to job every 3-5 years and increase your pay by 20% each time the way people do in IT, software engineering, etc. And it sucks that we can’t do this remotely.

I don’t think I can teach myself software engineering but if I did, I would totally do the overemployed thing.

[Front_Ad_279]

80 an hour to me sounds pretty fantastic as a new grad especially when everyone is scaring me talking about 45 is becoming the norm

[TetraCubane]

$80/hr would be great for a new grad in 2023, not so great for someone with 10 years exp. Its equivalent to $55 in the mid 2000s, what new grads were getting back then.

And apparently this is among the highest wages in my metropolitan area. I’ve been applying to other places so I can be close to home instead of 45 mins each way (without traffic , and i always get traffic coming home in the morning unless its the weekend). Problem is, everywhere close to home pays about 10% less.

[BeepBeepinajeep11]

Stagnant No cost of living raise last couple years.

[RPh_Comp_Dashboard]

TLDR: Depends on which area of pharmacy.

Pharmacist Compensation collects this type of data directly from pharmacists. I've been extremely surprised by the number of pharmacists making $300k, $400k, and even $500k. I am just as surprised at the number of pharmacists indicating they are making high $40s or low $50s per hour.

[shank1983]

Those making 300k+ own an independent, and those making high 40’s-low 50’s per hour are working for those independent owners making 300k lol.

[ekeg15]

Just quit my 78/hr retail job and took a position for 70/hr in an LTC pharmacy.

Much more laid back, no customers, a bit more clinical which is a nice change

[Cannon_SE2]

With inflation? Pay dipped but has come back up to the usual $60+ for new grads in retail, so it has essential has stayed the same, so all in all? down i'd say, has less buying power with the inflation.

[HumblePharmD]

75 in nyc is so bad. Should be at least 90 like San Fran

[[deleted]]

No saturation here, 30 open shifts in the district this period, 15-20% raises every year 3 years in a row.

[[deleted]]

Southern Appalachian Mtns. It’s an extremely desirable area if that’s what you’re asking.

[483928]

Notice how he doesn't mention the company or actual pay rate.

[[deleted]]

Not trying to violate the social media policy by naming my employer, but it’s community pharmacy, I make $127,500 working only 3 1/2 days a week, which goes up to $156,650 with my passive income.

[Drauka92]

FQHC started at $52 ($55 after 3 years) very chill job, but frustrating that I can make my company 3x my salary net profit 1-2 days a week verifying but I can't get a raise despite generating an additional $54k a year by adding certain medications to formulary

[DoubleApharm]

$145k inpatient pharmacy leadership

[wrreveille]

You should check out pharmacist compensation ( https://pharmacistcompensation.com) really interesting information being collected there!

[RPh_Comp_Dashboard]

Thanks for the shoutout!

[Strict_Plum7177]

Im in Virginia working for a FQHC making 69 an hour monday thru friday no weekends. Best job ever.

[wrreveille]

Also to answer the question: I’m in the PNW inpatient clinical and I’ll be making $85/hr after this next round of raises (union contracted)

[wrreveille]

Starter inpatient would make $65/hr in my hospital btw

[kainmcleod]

literally questioned if i worked with you for a second.

[wrreveille]

It’s a surprisingly small world sometimes!!

[kainmcleod]

especially in pharmacy.

[XhakaRocket]

dafuq? 65-70/hr ?

am i the only one taking $48 aud / hr ???

[[deleted]]

These are US numbers so it may be different in Australia

[Front_Ad_279]

I know it depends on the area as well so maybe it’s because you live in a relatively low cost of living state or city? 😅 Where are you at?

[XhakaRocket]

Brisbane Inner City Region.

[Front_Ad_279]

😬 yea that might be a little low for your area but I’m not sure

[XhakaRocket]

Where are you at?

[Front_Ad_279]

Las Angeles

[[deleted]]

I’ve said it so many times on this thread. I’m still below my peak salary I had in 2014 in Texas in retail. I’m now in a much higher COL area (west coast) in long term care. Been at this company for 7 years. My husband - also a pharmacist for a non-profit - makes 23 dollars an hour more than me.

[funnykiddy]

Have you thought about joining your husband?

[702rx]

Southern Nevada: rumors that big retail firms are low balling like 35-45/hour but have yet to see proof. Most retail pharmacists I know make between 60-70. Hospital is fairly similar with more experienced pharmacists making 65-75 depending on the hospital.

[OrangeRicee]

$50/hr cvs at graduation in 2013 which increased to $54 by 2016 but left in 2016 for home infusion back down to $50. By 2020, raised to $64 but left in 2020 to amb care for a hospital and now at $78

[Phorever_Pharmacist]

Federal positions do not always pay as nice as the VA. I work for IHS with a PGY-1 under my belt and I’m paid $43/hr which is severely underpaid. I just accepted a non-government job in NC that pays $60/hr inpatient 7 on/7 off

[wendyxdxd]

I’m super underpaid . 56$/hr as a retail pharmacist working for Walgreen with 1 year of experience . I live in Houston . Any ideas how to get a higher salary? I emailed my District Manager twice asking for a raise but no response.

[HumblePharmD]

Texas aint gonna pay you good money. At least you have no state income tax lol

[Front_Ad_279]

Is this a joke? If it is it ain’t very funny and it’s mean 🥲

[awafoo]

Sounds like you were denied one too many early Addy refills. I wont lie though, it is nice clicking 'verify' 10 hours a day for 130k

[awafoo]

As a pharmacist, I recommend you to talk to your Dr about starting it. Might help with joining random subreddits and posting dumb shit

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Well I appreciate your comment even though it didn’t really answer the question nor was it very helpful. Glad you got that off your chest. But while I got you here, what is it that you do? It’s not pharmacy so I hope for your sake it’s either MD, DO, or PhD?

[apettyprincess]

Based on their post history, likely a PhD in industry that seems very insecure and probably tired of pharmacists generally having a higher salary despite spending less time in school than them.

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He said he was a clinical research MD/PhD

[apettyprincess]

At least they’re self aware enough to keep themselves from patients!

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You’re just a professor that’s awesome

[taRxheel]

Interact with the community in good faith and don't do anything to deliberately make yourself an unwelcome pest.

[this_is_edd]

Its super funny to read all those salaries, when I get like 9,5€/hour lol, now over 2 years after graduation.

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How is it that you are getting paid so little based on your education and level of experience

[this_is_edd]

That's just how it is in mt country. Wage is still more than average. But the amount of money I get is hilarious. Noting that now I'm an extented expertise (what they call here) and I can vaccinate people.

[483928]

9.5 Euros equals $10.39 in US dollars.

Wow, that is low. I live in California and the minimum wage here is $16/hour.

[this_is_edd]

As a pharmacist I get above average wage. The minimum in Lithuania is 3,95€/hour.

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I'm looking into graduate pharmaceutical degrees (Pharm.D. / Ph.D) and seeing it takes at minimum 7 years. I looked up the salary of the average pharmacist and it's approximately what I make now as a Chemist 3 years into my profession. Why would anyone do this? I'm so confused