highest paid pharmacist location
Started by johnkneeboi
Neverland. I'm not telling you how to get there though.
If you close your eyes and wish really hard, the way will appear.
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somewhere over the rainbow, way up high, there a land that I once heard of in a lullaby
Thats where pharmacist earn 3 bajillion dollars a year right?
per year?? Man, someone really doesn't want you to find it. It's per FILL! Oh yeah, and no rude customers, no insurance issues, and no drugies.
Don't forget to add that gas is 59 cents a gallon.
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Beyond the stupid question --> stupid response, it's fun. And this isn't like we can say the CVS at 1234 Main Dingleberry Falls, Alaska is the best gig at $159.481.
In general, retail > not. Rural > not.
However you have PharmD CEOs and executives, so they'd likely make more at many companies then retail.
Really really sick of these threads. location of the highest salary.....highest salary ever...........
nothing wrong with it though. people work for MONEY.
But the REAL question is...
What's the highest salary where I can be a practicing pharmacist, not deal with patients, watch pr0n all day, while getting paid overtime and hazard pay while sitting in a JC-approved chair. OH oh oh oh...and no weekends, holidays, fridays, mondays, and all Jewish holidays as well.
Can someone tell me where I can make $250k and do all that??? please please please, i'm a high school student and this is my destinyyyyy!!
What's the highest salary where I can be a practicing pharmacist, not deal with patients, watch pr0n all day, while getting paid overtime and hazard pay while sitting in a JC-approved chair. OH oh oh oh...and no weekends, holidays, fridays, mondays, and all Jewish holidays as well.
Can someone tell me where I can make $250k and do all that??? please please please, i'm a high school student and this is my destinyyyyy!!
I'll never understand the inability or laziness of people to find answers themselves. This is complicated by the fact that they are asking about this in order to get into a profession where there are more then enough pharmcists that are there only to collect a pay check. I am sorry, but if you are only in it for the money, then this field should not be for you.
and let me add, your comment to the thread was just as productive as mine👍
Become the dean of a school of pharmacy. $250k+.
I've been saying that for years. I check the classified ads every weekend and look for that job. I will fight to the death for it.
Shoot... how did you get a hold of my job description ?? And I'm not giving up this job yet!
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We have *ways* of making you walk. Muwahahah.
You in on this too?? Stalker!!
All I have to say is...
I have to make up for my Sprint retirement plan. Which if you look at what Sprint sold for in the late 90s to today, you understand my desire for insta-cush-job. 😉
If you don't like them quit opening and posting on them. It's pretty simple.
A message board is suppose to be somewhere people come to exchange information, have productive discussion, and help each other out. Money is a very important factor when deciding what profession to pursue. It doesn't make someone any less of a pharmacist/person than you because they care about how much they will make after graduation.
"Productive" is the key word here. Message board or not, people expect the OP to do his own research first. This is a MESSAGE BOARD, not Google, and there are some things that can be found better with the latter. The OP's question is one of them.
Besides, his credibility is not helped when the only other post the OP has posted is one in which he is asking (obvious) homework questions.
If you don't like the question, move onto a different thread. It may be an obvious question to you but not others.
Alright just to end this thread. OP go to www.bls.gov as well as www.salary.com . Both are web sites where you can gain information on salary by area. End of discussion
This is the US baby... If you are REALLY interested in making the MEGA bucks, then maybe you shouldn't be going to RX school... maybe you should consider being a capitalist. However, if you wanna make more than the rest of your peers, then here's an equation that might help:
=Nature of profession + Location + Type of degree + Who you know
+ Bargaining power !!!
Good luck!!
=Nature of profession + Location + Type of degree + Who you know
+ Bargaining power !!!
Good luck!!
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Gee, that was easy:
That map is too generalized and useless. The average where I work in SW Pennsylvania is only $90k...yet up in Connecticut in "the same region" you'd make $25k more.
gotta look at NET income for all these places.
in the end, pharmacists earn big money after they have shown they have gone above and beyond the minimal competancies as dictated by the federal and/or state boards of pharmacy. and having a second degree helps too.
in the end, pharmacists earn big money after they have shown they have gone above and beyond the minimal competancies as dictated by the federal and/or state boards of pharmacy. and having a second degree helps too.
I was always under the impression that the chains in the big cities like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago paid their pharmacists more. Is that incorrect?
The going rate for a PIC in Orange County, California is between $54-57/hour right now.
The going rate for a PIC in Orange County, California is between $54-57/hour right now.
No. Rural areas near big cities pay the most. It is all about supply and demand.
Once I posted the map it was also the only USEFUL information posted in this thread.
Seems the only reason you responded was to say my info was useless. Of course there are always going to be outliers, but this is talking about averages. Being a pharmacist, I assume you have an understanding of this concept.
Everyone's a critic.😴
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Not according to this:
http://drugtopics.modernmedicine.co...s-over-/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/500075
Not everything is supply/demand. Simply look at the tumbling price of oil as an example. Demand has not decreased that much....just like it never increased enough to justify $140/barrel prices.
The prices also continue to tumble despite OPEC cutting production. There goes supply/demand.
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It's cuz the rural areas don't have so many Starbucks locations to suck your wallet dry.
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You just might be less of a pharmacist/person then me because you can't read. Let me explain, I said there are too many pharmacists in this profession only here to collect a paycheck. What that means is that there are too many pharmacists in this profession only here to collect a paycheck. The only thing they care about is money. Money, while yes it is important, because you have to justify going to school for 8 years, it should not be your end nor your mean for being a pharmacist. This attitude will not only hurt your career but also the patients you treat.
Gee, that was easy:
This map is so confusing. As far as I know, staff hospital pharmacist's pay is much less than community in midwest area now. Maybe specialist can compare with community pharmacist, but on average, I don't believe hospital pharmacist can make that high as in the map, except that they include benefit and retire plan
Once I posted the map it was also the only USEFUL information posted in this thread.
Seems the only reason you responded was to say my info was useless. Of course there are always going to be outliers, but this is talking about averages. Being a pharmacist, I assume you have an understanding of this concept.
Everyone's a critic.😴
No, it's that there are only like 6 regions and within those regions you'll see hundreds of different area pay rates depending on specifically where you are. In order to get a better idea, you would need more than an average...you'd need a median....which would still be too general. You'd need in-depth percentile breakdowns...which would still be too generalized as it wouldn't tell you which specific area the values came from. So say in the Northeast, 10% of the pharmacies pay around 90k....80% pay 100k...but then there is a region of 10% that pays $125k. Yeah...the average is a tad higher than $100k, but yet inside the region there is an area that pays more than anywhere else in the country. And in practice, there are several little areas like this. Hence...an average of a huge region alone tells you little...ergo, said map us useless.
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Yeah...well when pharmacists' salaries are linked to the international value of the dollar being suddenly revalued and a collapsing speculative commodities market you may very well have a point there.
I'm kind of thrown off by this "pharmacy" and "money" connection. A majority of people mention "money" whenever I say the word "pharmacy", when in fact I want to know more about what THE FIELD entails than the bonus received. For example, when I got into my school's pharmacy program, my adviser told my cousin to become a pharmacist because, saying "you'll make good money". Then, a couple of weeks later, one kid in my lab class asked "alright guys. Who ISN'T doing pharmacy just for the money" and only one kid said he was actually interested in it. Yeah, money is necessary, most definitely, but it doesn't guarantee you happiness.
I know that's open for debate, but I'll just throw this story out there. My dad was working in this company right after college, in which is salary wasn't too great. But he keeps talking about how much fun he had at work. The people would go to work in their dress suits and keep them on till the ended up at the beach. People would be relaxed and sometimes during a hard day at work, co-workers would find themselves throwing rolled-up balls of paper at eachother. I think he had a really good time there. Anyway, as usual, somebody in the family had to comment on how low his salary was and found him a job which was higher paying. So my dad decided to leave that company and went for that job. He hated working at his next job, and even in the place where he works now, he doesn't seem to be too happy. Even though his salary is good and his hours range from about 8-4 o 9-5 and gets a pretty good amount of vacation time, he keeps wishing that he could work less. I think he thinks work in general is really boring, although the field that he is studying in, engineering, is one of his most avid interests. Now that it's going to be time for me to look into careers, he keeps mentioning his days back when he started out and how fun it was. He thinks that the money-issue could have been solved if he had stayed and gotten a promotion. Bottom line is, money is a necessity, but having a lot of money doesn't ensure you that your problemos are solved.
I know that's open for debate, but I'll just throw this story out there. My dad was working in this company right after college, in which is salary wasn't too great. But he keeps talking about how much fun he had at work. The people would go to work in their dress suits and keep them on till the ended up at the beach. People would be relaxed and sometimes during a hard day at work, co-workers would find themselves throwing rolled-up balls of paper at eachother. I think he had a really good time there. Anyway, as usual, somebody in the family had to comment on how low his salary was and found him a job which was higher paying. So my dad decided to leave that company and went for that job. He hated working at his next job, and even in the place where he works now, he doesn't seem to be too happy. Even though his salary is good and his hours range from about 8-4 o 9-5 and gets a pretty good amount of vacation time, he keeps wishing that he could work less. I think he thinks work in general is really boring, although the field that he is studying in, engineering, is one of his most avid interests. Now that it's going to be time for me to look into careers, he keeps mentioning his days back when he started out and how fun it was. He thinks that the money-issue could have been solved if he had stayed and gotten a promotion. Bottom line is, money is a necessity, but having a lot of money doesn't ensure you that your problemos are solved.
that seems off to me......do they really make that much?
I'm guessing more in the 165-185 range?
so how exactly does one position themself to become an executive at a pharmaceutical or retail company or director of some government agency? 😀 hehehe
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