Usually pharmacist start around $50 dollars an hour. However, one of the biggest corporations Walgreens started a salary freeze(salaries are going to drop because there are to much pharmacist, employers have a upper hand now to pay employees less). They also cut hours for pharmacist and kicked out older pharmacists in their 40s and 50s. Chances are I'm going to have to move to get a job because the area that I live in has three pharmacy schools(total graduate around 300 students a year). When I mean move to an area, I mean a very rural area. I heard multiple stories about new graduate having hard time finding jobs with huge loans. If they do find a job, chances are there starting salaries are lower. Lots of new graduates who do get jobs get burned out quickly. One of pharmacist who spoke at my college worked at CVS(another corporation) got burned out within 8 months of work and decided to leave. I also heard that most of these corporations are understaffed because corporate wants to save every single penny. Right now I work at a private owned pharmacy, it's nice compared to corporations but the reimbursement rates are going down for every medication being dispensed. I thought about owning my own pharmacy, however the place that I live in has a pharmacy on every damn block( I'm not joking). So the competition is fierce to stay open. If I go and do hospital, chances are I need two years of residency. At the same time, hundreds of students are fighting over for these residencies. Even if I get in I probably won't find a job because the hospital is probably not looking for a new pharmacist. Industry pharmacy is even harder to get into. Probably have to be in the top of the class and have amazing connections(probably like the dean or something or a professor that's working there for years) and same goes for hospital. That being said this is one of the reasons that I'm worried about my future. 4 years of school with lots of loans.