Pharmacist isn't a top 20 Healthcare Job according to US News

[steveysmith54]

Ranking are from beginning of 2016. I am sure this has been posted before. Someone brought this up to me last week at work. I was shocked. My intent is not to discourage anyone from applying (believe it or not). I am just baffled by how much of a hit our profession took in the last decade. I applied in the mid 2000's. Our profession was top 5 in both healthcare and overall job. Now we are behind Chiropractors in the rankings. Not trying to put down my chiropractors friends, props to you guys.

http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings/best-healthcare-jobs

http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings/the-100-best-jobs

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[Twentytwelve2]

thats just a survey... I mean they ranked UCSF as number 1 and they had like 36 failing the CPJE....

survey is subjective

 

[steveysmith54]

thats just a survey... I mean they ranked UCSF as number 1 and they had like 36 failing the CPJE....

survey is subjective

Yeah it's a survey. Same survey had us almost 20 rankings higher less than a decade ago.

 

[holymolys]

#11 if you rank them by $$$... "Best" is pretty subjective.

 

[Amicable Angora]

He's making a point about the times, don't miss the forest for the trees.

 

[hye345]

There is some truth to the survey, but keep it in perspective: you could choose the #1 ranked health career to pursue, but if you suck at it and/or hate the actual work, will it really make you feel better to learn that a group of random people have deemed your career to be *wave foam finger in the air* NUMBER ONE!!

 

[Niosh]

Dangit, I'm never going to hear the end of this from my wife. At least we're still the #2 trusted profession. I choose to blame all you other pharmacists. I'm still #1 in my heart.

 

[gwarm01]

Junk. They have like 8 specialized docs on there then they list physician.... WTF

I noticed that. Was this list created by some news bot? You would hope a human being would realize their folly.

 

[ChalupaBatman86]

The physician specialist salaries are too low. And all the same.


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[lord999]

I think this survey made a mistake at least with the maxillofacial surgeons ($187k) and prosthodontists ($117k) and reported what they paid in taxes rather than their salaries. This looks like they were scraping from the VA or federal salaries, and those are correct salaries for them, however, there's some other stuff that's not reported as there's between a $80-$150k professional accession that changes that. Some of these look too high as well, and they come from the supervisory federal salaries and not the actual practitioners.

Also, pediatricians don't make $170k, they usually make less! Most don't serve full time jobs.