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Wondering what the typical salary growth for a newly graduated Pharm student would be? What's the highest salary / earning potential you've heard of for a pharmacist? Thanks!
You just have to differentiate yourself by taking leadership roles in your student organizations!Larry Merlo makes beaucoup bucks. Aim for those nontraditional roles.
Exactly. Salary is highly correlated to the quantity and quality of posters you present at their circle j---I mean conferences.You just have to differentiate yourself by taking leadership roles in your student organizations!
Max I've grossed - just under 300k
Averaged around 200k last 3 years. It's really easy to get to 200K in retail IMO if you work hard.
I average about 60-70 hours per week with a chain. Max year I worked about 80 hours per week.
I'd have to find a second employer to get that many hours. Max I've been offered is about 48 in one week...once.Max I've grossed - just under 300k
Averaged around 200k last 3 years. It's really easy to get to 200K in retail IMO if you work hard.
I average about 60-70 hours per week with a chain. Max year I worked about 80 hours per week.
Wondering what the typical salary growth for a newly graduated Pharm student would be? What's the highest salary / earning potential you've heard of for a pharmacist? Thanks!
Just south of $1,000,000 for a year long contract in Alaska. PGY2 required.
I can barely stomach 40 hours a week working at an easy chain store these days. If they were offering unlimited OT when I graduated I could've done those 60 hour weeks maybe for a year or two though.
i make roughly 137k after taxes are taken out working at an independent. no 401k or health insurance though
401k match is around 6000 free money. Health insurance for a person can run 300 a person to 1000 family of four/month.
Living in the US without health insurance is really bad. Unless you are on Medicaid, or ultra rich, you are one bad health away to bankrupcy.
I actually found a private insurance for relatively cheap. oscar health insurance. premium is only 130 per month. never use it though. pretty much throwing money in the garbage
137 AFTER taxes? Doesn't seem righti make roughly 137k after taxes are taken out working at an independent. no 401k or health insurance though
Hi, I have been admitted to UT's pharmacy school but have been reevaluating my decision. Would you do pharmacy all over again? I have been programming for a year now because I keep hearing about the oversaturation. If you could do something differently in pharmacy school, what would you do?
Until sh1t happens. Let's plan your life on luck.
Wait until you need to go to ER, minor procedure, appendectomy, or need it for car accident. 3k-50k time bomb waiting for you anytime. Hope you draw the low end of that range.
137 AFTER taxes? Doesn't seem right
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Is a PGY2 in Advanced Antibiotic Suspension Reconstitution good enough?
No benefits tho. So maybe?
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Max I've grossed - just under 300k
Averaged around 200k last 3 years. It's really easy to get to 200K in retail IMO if you work hard.
I average about 60-70 hours per week with a chain. Max year I worked about 80 hours per week.
The further I get away from when I graduated, the less I care about making as much money as possible. I don't pick up OT or a second job. At the end of the day I just want to relax and enjoy my time not working.
Don't worry. They'd never go for that. Suspensions are PGY-3 material.Don't give APhA any ideas...
I thought you needed a BCPS for suspensions?! It's for pt safety for the love of all that is holy!Don't worry. They'd never go for that. Suspensions are PGY-3 material.
No. It's BCRS. Board Certified Reconstitution Specialist. New specialty.I thought you needed a BCPS for suspensions?! It's for pt safety for the love of all that is holy!
To sit for the BCRS exam you must have either a PGY1 or 15 years of equivalent reconstitution experience.No. It's BCRS. Board Certified Reconstitution Specialist. New specialty.
To sit for the BCRS exam you must have either a PGY1 or 15 years of equivalent reconstitution experience.
I can John Henry any FillMaster.FillMaster is introduced. 15 years of reconstitution experience is replaced by a circuit board, ****ty screen and some tubing.
It's unsustainable. It's easy to do when you are 24, 25, 26. Once you reach a certain age, your body will start to fail you. You can't work 80 hours a week. To make 200k by working as many hours as possible is smart when you are young, but I don't think it's so smart when you are older. To each his own.
Normal maximum on a 40 hour that I've seen in offered contracts at present is $125/hr ($290k) with benefits for a couple of very difficult to place positions last year that students asked me about filling (one in a high crime area where the pharmacy was consistently robbed, one in an area that is truly remote). I'm sure someone on this board that does self-contracts as a locum makes more but it takes some work to do the self-employment thing. That1guy is right about endurance, you can work into it, and I knew plenty of old fashioned workhorses that routinely worked 70-80 hour retail weeks (the ones I can think of either worked in a much more demanding job like the machinist pharmacist who was my preceptor or a former tech where pharmacy was the easier gig after RPh promotion). My father, who was the highest paid hospital staff pharmacist (not management, just pure basement) in AZ for 8 years running, grossed around $290k+ before salary bonuses and deferred compensation before he retired working a consistent 70 hours a week. I would also say that if That1guy's a PIC or equivalent, absolutely I'd rather do the OT myself than have some jackass create more work for me if that was what happened. "Forced" overtime in exchange for not having to deal with a partner's messes is from personal experience worth it.
I myself work a 40 hour week (depending on what academicians or government workers call 'work') as I'm blessed to have no money problems aside from what I want to do with my current spend. I earned the financial security to not work overtime, and I use it accordingly. I'm paid the median, but the working conditions, perks, and deferred compensation make accepting a lower pay worth it. You find though that after the bills are paid, what motivates you to work can change, though some just work because they enjoy the work and its rewards. To each their own, but I have respect for those who do work as capitalism should reward those who will. And to those who think retail is a hard gig, consider yourself fortunate that you haven't been asked to be a laborer at harder work (the skilled trades, agriculture, short order cook, nurse assistant). Retail is demanding, but it isn't as backbreaking as it's made out to be. It's only relative to the institutional pharmacist where retail is a hard job.
There is a difference between forced/involuntary overtime and voluntary overtime. I would be pissed off if I were forced into involuntary overtime when I had other things planned and it isn't a disaster. I think 80 hours/week is quite manageable for voluntary overtime.