Um, what year of pharmacy school do you actually think I was enrolled in when I dropped out? I left at the end of the P1 year. There are no new grads from my class that are earning $120k/year. They still have at least 2.5 more years to go before they can even think about earning any sort of FT salary, and what makes you think retail starting salaries will even be as high as $120k by that time? Of course, the irony is that even if they are still $120k by the time the class of 2020 graduates, it would still be an indication that pharmacist salaries are not rising with inflation. But hey, a stagnant-with-inflation salary of $120k and 1-2 weeks of PTO is still more than I'm getting right now, and that's all that matters, right? It's beyond obvious that the posters here resort to weak personal attacks on me because they can't actually refute the fact-based statements I'm making about the pharmacy profession.
BTW, I will be graduating from the program I'm going to attend approximately one year before the future hospital/clinical pharmacists in my (previously attended) pharmacy school class have even had the chance to finish their 1-year residency programs and start working. In other words, by the time I'm finished, they'll still have another year to go before they start earning a legitimate FT income, and that's assuming they don't get suckered into completing PGY2s. What's even more sad is that (with the exception of those who get jobs in states like CA) my starting salary is guaranteed to be higher than what those esteemed future hospital/clinical pharmacists will be earning, especially in the southeast. Technically, there are pharmacy students out there who are going to spend an amount of time pursuing PGY-2 residencies that is almost equivalent to the amount of time I'll be spending in school making the right choice.
... Congratulations on being comfortable with a wage freeze; it's partially because of apathetic attitudes like yours that pharmacy has become known as the wasteland of healthcare practitioners (especially when compared with the political lobbying, professional enthusiasm, and general ability to score political victories in professions such as nursing, PA, etc.). Case in point: for some reason I still get emails from APHA about the provider status wild goose chase, and it seems like every email is a copy-and-paste of the previous one: "We have enough signatures from politicians in the House, but we only have 49 in the Senate!" They NEVER actually announce that they've made even a semblance of progress on the issue. It's always the same: "Only 4x signatures! Only 4x signatures! Only 4x signatures!" On the basis of simple mathematical reality, the provider status bill simply cannot and will not pass on a federal level in this country. Your profession literally can't move forward. The politicians don't even care.