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64.25 x 40 x 52 = $133,640. That's pretty high for a new grad. Well, depends on what part of Cali I guess since cost of living is outrageous in some areas.
I am not from cali, but isn't it the majority of areas?
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No, the rates are different depending on which CA locations. For cities close to the Bay Area, the rate is $61.50/hr while Fresno area is paying $65.50/hr. Although the standard of living is lower in the "hard to staff" areas, the rate is typically higher to attract potential employees.
Bump for those not seeing this. With Residency Interviews taking place (or not for some), I'm curious if anyone has gotten offers recently. If you don't mind, please include if you are currrently working for the company as a student intern, worked for a different company as an intern, or if you have not worked as a student.
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The offers I have seen have been from the high 50s to the low 60s per hour. That's as specific as I can be...
Because my "salary" is an hourly amount multiplied by the number of hours I'm scheduled to work. The only reason I have a "salary" is so my boss doesn't have to pay me any more for mandatory meetings, staying at work late or coming in early.
Hourly is just a lot easier to compare. Not everyone gets 40 hrs/week. I am at 36 hr/week myself so if I quoted my yearly salary it would seem like I was underpaid.
By the way, I am a 2014 grad in the Northeast getting 54/hr from a retail chain for anyone who is curious. Based on this thread it would seem like I got totally shafted but I have a feeling only those with high salaries are posting.
If makes you feel better, I am salaried making 114k/yr, so ~55/hr, and I have been practicing for 4 years. Working in ambcare. Banker hours, pension, amazing pto package and fully clinical with prescribing privileges so I am fine with the lower salary. Quality of life is most important, my job is clinically challenging and engaging on a professional to professional as well as a professional to patient level, while still being chill and enjoyable.
Moral of story is find a job you enjoy going to everyday and challenges your pharmacist skill set.
Still a lot of jobs in CA in less desirable areas. Made 62 straight out of school in 2013. Now as pic make 69 in retail..
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the simple fact is, your current position and it's respective responsibilities is not a business model that can be easily replicated. Your job in an outlier for our profession. We as a profession need to have services that ONLY we can bill for, separate from a Physician, if we want to minimize and separate from the role of dispensing (as the quote in your signature does).
All these CVS offers. I was in the same situation last year. Less than half the people at new pharmacist orientation are still employed with CVS. The rest have moved onto greener pastures
My offers were not CVS offers. They were hourly offers, not salary. I can tell you that much.
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is it 40 hours based? or like 36 hours?
Isn't it rough for out of state people to get licensed in CA? My P4 friends graduating seem to have decent offers, although many are moving out back to home states too.
damn you are getting 128k I need to get out CA then cuz clearly! Wait how many hours is that for biweekly?
40 hours a week.
Wow you work in Kansas city and make more than people in California
That's normal. If you want higher pay in pharmacy, go where others don't want to go. Because supply and demand. Economics!
Central AR
Wags
57/hr
6 years w/ company as a tech and intern
Wags
57/hr
6 years w/ company as a tech and intern
Company: Walgreens
Offer: 119K
Accepted?: Yes
Location: DFW (TX)
Offer: 119K
Accepted?: Yes
Location: DFW (TX)
I guess Kansas City must have a higher demand. I've spoken with older pharmacists in my same area and they said the offers have gone down a lot for my area. I live in a high cost of living area. Other professions make 1.5-2x their normal salary here.
I'm not exactly sure why, but kansas city seems to have some of the highest offers in the nation via CVS at least. Cost of living is very reasonable/cheap as well and its not like its rural kansas...overland park/kansas city is a very growing population and it is becoming saturated in terms of pharmacist jobs.
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115k - accepted. Stayed with my company largely do to how I like the corporate culture, strength and stability of the company, and my personal sense of loyalty.
Other chains offering PUBLICLY to external applicants same or a little higher with 10-20k sign-on bonuses in small rural areas to large towns (>100,000). Didn't apply to these.
Central US
115k - accepted. Stayed with my company largely do to how I like the corporate culture, strength and stability of the company, and my personal sense of loyalty.
Other chains offering PUBLICLY to external applicants same or a little higher with 10-20k sign-on bonuses in small rural areas to large towns (>100,000). Didn't apply to these.
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Wait is this Kansas city KS or Kansas City MO ? cuz if this is Kansas City KS I understand lol no offense
Kansas City, MO/KS and Overland park, KS are all categorized as one and are all paid the same.
I am not a mathematical genius but 125k is $60/hr assuming a standard 2080hr work year. Not sure where $53/hr comes from...
Good point. In ambulatory care there is no question that we will have lunch, breaks and 40hr work week, I forget that is not the case in retail.
Retail.. No night or weekends. With the sign on it's $55/hr.
Go Enjoy working nights, weekends (and some holidays) while working in an understaffd, overly micro-managed chain drug store. You likely wouldnt be a good fit at my store anyway.
Submit your resume to [email protected] and I'll provide you full detail. make sure that you note you are BMB from SDN....
Can't be that good if you need to recruit on SDN. Let me take a guess. It is a contract job which means no benefits and the person needs to also pay the employee AND employer portion of social security and medicare tax (an additional 7.65% in taxes). Let me also take a guess the sign on bonus requires the person to work there for at least 2 years. That is why you can't look at just the pay rate. Remember benefits should be 30-40% of your salary so if someone is paying you $50 an hour, he should also give you $15-20 per hour in benefits. If he is not then it is a crappy deal.
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This. If there is a wags or cvs in his neighborhood , they'd be offering total comp of decently over 200k .. yeah you gotta work weekends .. but it's likely almost double the money .
My health insurance and retirement alone are worth 30k/year .. not even looking at profit sharing, bonuses, other insurance benefits , stock options, and vacation (beyond 2 weeks)
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Also what's up with 2 weeks vacation ? Even big corporate can offer double that if you include personal days
Can anyone speak to what the current salary/hourly rates are for a staff hospital position, non-residency required, in Rhode Island.
Head hunters charge between $10-20k for placing a pharmacist. And no it's not a contract position... They'd be a Direct employee.
For a pharmacist as "worldly" as you, your lack of value for having the opportunity to work "bankers -type" hours is quite telling. You likely don't have a family ( or much of a personal life)
30-40% of ones salary? The average RPH makes $120k per year. Benefits paid for BY THE EMPLOYER hardly reach that amount.
I could go on but you're merely a waste of time.
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