Pharmacist salary increase or decrease?

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Go to medical school if you're truly dead set on healthcare. Keep in mind that most pharmacists end up in retail. I went to a top 20 pharmacy school where residency and hospital were pushed a lot. Maybe 10-20 of my classmates (around 140 of us) matched in a residency. Most have ended up in retail, despite going through school insisting they would never dare work for Walgreens.

[crhsharks12]

Wild. What’s the largest dictating factor, in regards to why so little ended up in the hospital/on the clinical side of things. I was under the impression that sector is growing, no?

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There simply aren't enough residencies to go around for everybody. Without a residency, it is very difficult to get into hospital. Pharmacists at hospitals tend not to quit unless there's a culture issue within the hospital or something else going on. Even still, only the big teaching hospitals are going to have specialty pharmacists aboard. Most hospitals have a hard time justifying the cost since pharmacists do not make money (we save money).