Salaries NYC

[pharm4312]

Can anybody familiar with the NYC market please post some starting salary wages for different types of pharmacist jobs (retail and hospital mainly) ? I have been crunching numbers to see if I can afford to live there, and with my student debt figure I need roughly 100k/year to live there.

 

[killingbill]

run in the other direction and don't look back

 

[pharmd718]

pharmacist level 1 in a city hospital in brooklyn = 91,600 per year

 

[notafraid87]

pharmacist level 1 in a city hospital in brooklyn = 91,600 per year

Are you sure about that? Seems awfully low for Brooklyn. COL + 91k = 👎 , in my opinion.

 

[psychoandy]

Are you sure about that? Seems awfully low for Brooklyn. COL + 91k = 👎 , in my opinion.

sounds about right. most popular and oversaturated cities have no incentive to pay pharmacists more; compare new york or NYC wage versus florida. very similar mean salary, but you could ball so hard in florida whereas in NYC that's almost lower middle class territory.

http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291051.htm

 

[Shnurek]

to see if I can afford to live there, and with my student debt figure I need roughly 100k/year to live there.

You can afford to live here on $50,000 just be prepared to not have a car. But the real question should be: if you are not gay/feminist/dirty/rude as hell/weird/socially ousted, why would you want to live here?

 

[passionist]

sounds about right. most popular and oversaturated cities have no incentive to pay pharmacists more

This is true across the board for all health care workers (physicians, NP, pharmacists). I am an NP grad and my prospective employer in a popular city in NE job will pay less than Mid-west (Arizona, New Mexico) and the same as rural south despite very high cost of living! Yes, people want to live there so there is no incentive to bring up the pay.. It is the price to pay for enjoying the city lifestyle. If you are healthcare workers, you are considered lucky if you hate the city (more jobs, more/equal pay, lower cost of living, and more independence in rural area.)

 

[schamj01]

sounds about right. most popular and oversaturated cities have no incentive to pay pharmacists more; compare new york or NYC wage versus florida. very similar mean salary, but you could ball so hard in florida whereas in NYC that's almost lower middle class territory.

http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291051.htm

Seems to me one would want to move to Vermont or Maine, rather than getting all excited about Alaska.

 

[xiphoid2010]

Seems to me one would want to move to Vermont or Maine, rather than getting all excited about Alaska.

You might as well be living in an igloo over there. j/k

Or if you don't might being caught in the cross fire between mexican drug cartels, you can also try the border towns. You average $133K+ in Laredo, Yuma and Brownsville, and to top it off, you can get a real bargain on fixer uppers, just need a little dry wall paste to patch up the bullet holes. Woot! 👍

 

[schamj01]

You might as well be living in an igloo over there. j/k

Or if you don't might being caught in the cross fire between mexican drug cartels, you can also try the border towns. You average $133K+ in Laredo, Yuma and Brownsville, and to top it off, you can get a real bargain on fixer uppers, just need a little dry wall paste to patch up the bullet holes. Woot! 👍

ha! reminds me of our first apartment. 80 year old building, 480 square feet, bed in a closet, no AC, and two shootings on the corner withing a week. We only lived there a year.

 

[pharm4312]

Are there any new schools in NYC that will begin pumping out grads soon/have already started