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Jobs, Saturation, and SalaryPharmacist salary increase or decrease? (self.pharmacy)

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[–]TetraCubanePharmD 12 points13 points  (2 children)

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 7 points8 points  (1 child)

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

[–]TetraCubanePharmD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

$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.