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Salary: hourly/yearly
Position: FT/PT/PD
Company:
Location:
Accepted: yes/no
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Salary: $63
Position: FT
Company: CVS
Location: Midwest
Accepted: yes
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Is this thread going to get more and more dead each year?


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a grad intern offer gets guarantee promotion to pharmacist after licensure. You get this offer during your last year of pharmacy school. Grad intern rate is ~$30/hr. Once he is licensed, he'll get promoted to pharmacist with rate of $63/hr

How are you making 63$/hr as an intern?
 
That's a good offer congrats.
 
Salary: 61.5/hr (58/hr + 3.50 shift diff)
Position: 7on/7off clinical
Company: hospital
Location: south
Accepted: yes


Salary: 48/hr (verbally gave me 56/hr on rotation, HR wouldn't budge past 48/hr now due to recent grads accepting 48/hr)
Position: FT clinical
Company: hospital
Location: TX
Accepted: no

edit: included more info and 2nd job offer results
 
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Salary: 61.5/hr
Position: 7on/7off
Company: hospital
Location: south
Accepted: yes

Is that 80 hours every 2 weeks or 70?

My friend works 7 10 hour shifts at a hospital up near great lakes and makes about $57 an hour. $61.50 is pretty good straight out of school.
 
Is that 80 hours every 2 weeks or 70?

My friend works 7 10 hour shifts at a hospital up near great lakes and makes about $57 an hour. $61.50 is pretty good straight out of school.

Works out to approx 75 hours (burn ~5hrs PTO).


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Salary: $68.50/hour
Position: FT Staff Pharmacist
Company: CVS
Location: South Texas
Accepted: no
 
These offers seem inflated.


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Salary: $54 + 8.5% stock every year
Position: 30 Hour FT
Company: Publix
Location: South
Accepted: yes
 
Salary: $54 + 8.5% stock every year
Position: 30 Hour FT
Company: Publix
Location: South
Accepted: yes

Do you know if the 30 hrs/week is going to be your permanent schedule, or is it likely to increase to 40 hrs/week after 6-12 months? Just wondering
 
I was told once a store opened I would be moved to 40 FT,I've been with publix for about 8 years ( worked as cashier, tech, intern) and wanted to stay with them since the quality of life is so much better compared to CVS/Walgreens. My PIC made 150 last year (120 base, 20 grand bonuses, 10 grand publix stock)


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I was told once a store opened I would be moved to 40 FT,I've been with publix for about 8 years ( worked as cashier, tech, intern) and wanted to stay with them since the quality of life is so much better compared to CVS/Walgreens. My PIC made 150 last year (120 base, 20 grand bonuses, 10 grand publix stock)


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Sounds like a good deal. In my area of the southeast, Publix is probably the most desirable company to work for as a pharmacist. I was even told by a local Publix PIC that they receive so many applications whenever they post a pharmacist job opening on their website that they aren't even hiring any new grads anymore (not even if they worked for them as an intern throughout pharmacy school). Do you know if this is true, especially the part about them not hiring their interns (or hiring them very infrequently) anymore? Again, just wondering
 
Sounds like a good deal. In my area of the southeast, Publix is probably the most desirable company to work for as a pharmacist. I was even told by a local Publix PIC that they receive so many applications whenever they post a pharmacist job opening on their website that they aren't even hiring any new grads anymore (not even if they worked for them as an intern throughout pharmacy school). Do you know if this is true, especially the part about them not hiring their interns (or hiring them very infrequently) anymore? Again, just wondering

yeah the turnover rate is very low for publix and I know multiple people who have worked all through pharmacy school and were not offered full time positions but rather prn once a month. I was actually trying to go to another district within the company and they had to many grad interns at the time and there were no positions available as of now, so I'll have to wind up transferring in the future if I want to go to an other district

Isn't that stock their version of a 401K? Not saying it doesn't count as compensation, but I don't include my employer contributions in my yearly salary - that adds ~6K per year (I forget the actual percentage to be honest)

Its different than the 401k they offer, once you become vested with the company, if you decide to quit for whatever reason that money is yours and you can do whatever you want to do with it, where a 401k you cant touch til 59 1/2 or you're penalized. There are grocery stock clerks who have been with the company for 30 + years and I don't even know how much they get based on dividends alone
 
Oh wow that is a pretty nice deal overall then.

The stock match when I was there maxed out at $750 so it is nonexistent. I don't know if that's changed as that was 4 years ago
 
The stock match when I was there maxed out at $750 so it is nonexistent. I don't know if that's changed as that was 4 years ago

Yes that's correct they max out at $750, $0.50 match for every dollar lol


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yeah the turnover rate is very low for publix and I know multiple people who have worked all through pharmacy school and were not offered full time positions but rather prn once a month. I was actually trying to go to another district within the company and they had to many grad interns at the time and there were no positions available as of now, so I'll have to wind up transferring in the future if I want to go to an other district

Just out of curiosity, what are most of your friends doing who couldn't get a job other once-monthly PRN hours at Publix? Are they working FT at CVS/Walgreens (assuming they could find a job at all)?
 
Salary: mid 60s
Position: FT Staff
Company: Big Chain
Location: west coast
Accepted: yes
House: Stark
Spirit Animal: Peacock
 
salary: 57.5/hr
position: FT staff
Company: CVS
Accepted: pending
 
salary: 54/hr
position: 30 hour floater
Company: grocery
Accepted: no
 
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Salary $61/hour
Position:40 hours staff
Company: grocery
Location: west ( not west coast)
 
Salary: $51/hour
Position: 30-hour floater
Company: Publix
Location: South
Accepted: yes
 
Salary: $51/hour
Position: 30-hour floater
Company: Publix
Location: South
Accepted: yes

Just curious, how did you manage to get hired by Publix as a new grad? I heard that in my district, they basically are only hiring experienced pharmacists these days.
 
Salary: $30/$60
Position: 30 hr floater
Company: Walgreens
Location: Midwest
Retail experience: basically zero
 
Salary: $30/$60
Position: 30 hr floater
Company: Walgreens
Location: Midwest
Retail experience: basically zero

I only got 58 when I graduated so that's good! You're suppose to say if you rejected/accepted/still deciding.


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I only got 58 when I graduated so that's good! You're suppose to say if you rejected/accepted/still deciding.


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Do you know what the $30/$60 means? I figure $60 is the hourly rate, so what does the $30 correspond to?
 
Salary: $55/hr
Position: FT
Company: LTAC
Location: South
Accepted: No
 
Is it blowing your mind people have jobs?

Not at all. Keep in mind that 60% unemployment among new graduates still means that 40% of them will still get jobs, so of course we're going to hear about people getting jobs. Either way, the $50-$60 that pharmacists are starting out at is still nowhere near as lucrative as the $70+ an hour that my former AA school classmates are being offered (the more I think about it, the sadder and more regretful I get).
 
Just curious, how did you manage to get hired by Publix as a new grad? I heard that in my district, they basically are only hiring experienced pharmacists these days.

They hired me internally. I was an intern for Publix since starting pharmacy school.
 
Salary: 60/hr
Position: FT
Company: Walmart
Location: middle of nowhere Arkansas
Accepted: no

Salary: 52/hr
Position: FT
Company: LTC
Location: Little Rock, AR
Accepted: yes
 
Salary: hourly/yearly
Position: FT/PT/PD
Company:
Location:
Accepted: yes/no

3 Offers, 1 Match:
Salary: 68.45 hourly as Staff Pharmacist
Position: Full Time
Company: CVS
Location: Central Northern California
Accepted: No

Salary: 67 hourly as Staff Pharmacist
Position: Full Time
Company: Rite Aid
Location: Central Northern California
Accepted: No

Salary: 120K yearly as Clinical Staff Pharmacist
Position: Full Time
Company: Hospital
Location: The heart of Boston, MA
Accepted: No

Salary: 50K as PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Resident
Position: Full Time
Company: Hospital
Location: WA
Accepted: Matched
 
Salary: hourly/yearly
Position: FT/PT/PD
Company:
Location:
Accepted: yes/no

3 Offers, 1 Match:
Salary: 68.45 hourly as Staff Pharmacist
Position: Full Time
Company: CVS
Location: Central Northern California
Accepted: No

Salary: 67 hourly as Staff Pharmacist
Position: Full Time
Company: Rite Aid
Location: Central Northern California
Accepted: No

Salary: 120K yearly as Clinical Staff Pharmacist
Position: Full Time
Company: Hospital
Location: The heart of Boston, MA
Accepted: No

Salary: 50K as PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Resident
Position: Full Time
Company: Hospital
Location: WA
Accepted: Matched

Turned down a hospital position to do a residency? Surprising.


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