Pharmacy job outlook

[deleted390966]

1- US gov't is so much in debt..so look to cutting medicare so less customers or lower profit margin on prescritions.

This is not gonna happen with healthcare reform coming.

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[ZakMeister]

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/Healthcare/Pharmacists.htm#tab-6

I was looking at this federal website link and it says a quarter increase in job market for pharmacists in the next seven years at least. I really don't seem to find a correlation between what this site says and what the people have been whining about the recent job crisis.

Can someone point me out where I am being wrong?

Thanks

 

[awval999]

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/Healthcare/Pharmacists.htm#tab-6

I was looking at this federal website link and it says a quarter increase in job market for pharmacists in the next seven years at least. I really don't seem to find a correlation between what this site says and what the people have been whining about the recent job crisis.

Can someone point me out where I am being wrong?

Thanks

Agreed. There will be a 25% increase in the number of pharmacist jobs over the next 10 years.

Please go and see the increase in pharmacy school enrollment over the last 5-10 years.

We do not know yet if the increase in pharmacy school enrollment will be greater than the number of new openings + retirements.

I will say this, we are approaching > 100% increase in graduates from the year 2000.


Edit: It's not fair to say there won't be "any" jobs. There will always be jobs. But if the supply >>>> demand we will see falling/stagnant salaries and 30-40% unemployment in our field. However, there is also a corollary. We do not want demand >>>> supply because if wages would rise to unsustainable amounts you would see mass attempts of the corporations/hospitals wanting higher responsibilities for the technicians, etc. The demand >>>> supply is what did in family practice docs and led to the rise of NP's.

 

[owlegrad]

We have a job market thread. Let's us it.