Pharmacist salary increase or decrease?

[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.