Walmart in California
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California pays 1.5X for all time after 8 hours in a day... so chances are you will be working split shift.
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My offer says I will be a part time pharmacist after getting license/graduated. What is the chance to earn 40hrs per week in areas near LA?
Hard to answer this question right now. Part-time at walmart guarantees you 0 hours. Part-time at walmart as a "third rph" with a template of 2 days a week at your home store will guarantee you 2 days/week -- this would be the BEST option as a part-time rph at walmart. If you are aggressive with picking up shifts, there are always opens shifts, rph calling you to cover short notice, etc... You can easily pick up 3 extra days because you can work outside of your district and there are neighborhood markets + supercenters + sams club (rare) to cover.
Thank you for your input. So a part-timer won't qualify for benefit at all? When I move to that location, I will be a grad intern until I get my license. Hopefully, something nice will come up in the near future. 😵
Typically in my area, even the slow stores like NHM in urban areas, split shifts are the norm. 12 hour shifts or longer occur only if there is an RPH shortage and the store is slow.
This is from last year so it might be outdated:
"California pharmacists" are considered salaried for PTO purposes and you don't get PTO cashed out. I assume that a person new to Walmart who was hired later than Feb 1 that your grant, if you even get a grant, would be prorated, i.e., you wouldn't get 80 hours if you were hired January 1. So let's say you were hired July 1 and are new to WM. Then you might get 40 hours front-loaded. Theoretically then you could take 5 days off immediately without actually working a single hour. However this scenario is not discussed in any of the documentation on the WIRE (AFAIK) so I could be wrong.
True hourly pharmacists do not get front-loaded vacation and accumulate hours as they work, so if you get 0 hours, you get jack
Bonus system is based on 50% overall facility performance (store sales and store-controlled profit) and 50% pharmacy performance. Of the latter, it's 50% customer service rating ("QPF," which stands for the triad of "Quality Productivity and Friendly" as assessed through customer surveys) and 50% Rx sales excluding controls. Max for staff pharmacist is 5k and 24k for RXM. There is also a multiplier based on script volume up to 2x for pharmacies that meet a certain amount of non-controlled Rx per year, so the theoretical true max is 10k for staff and 48k for RXM, which would occur if a store does 5-6k/week (non-controls) for supercenters and less for NHM (I don't recall the actual cutoffs).
This is from last year so it might be outdated:
"California pharmacists" are considered salaried for PTO purposes and you don't get PTO cashed out. I assume that a person new to Walmart who was hired later than Feb 1 that your grant, if you even get a grant, would be prorated, i.e., you wouldn't get 80 hours if you were hired January 1. So let's say you were hired July 1 and are new to WM. Then you might get 40 hours front-loaded. Theoretically then you could take 5 days off immediately without actually working a single hour. However this scenario is not discussed in any of the documentation on the WIRE (AFAIK) so I could be wrong.
True hourly pharmacists do not get front-loaded vacation and accumulate hours as they work, so if you get 0 hours, you get jack
Bonus system is based on 50% overall facility performance (store sales and store-controlled profit) and 50% pharmacy performance. Of the latter, it's 50% customer service rating ("QPF," which stands for the triad of "Quality Productivity and Friendly" as assessed through customer surveys) and 50% Rx sales excluding controls. Max for staff pharmacist is 5k and 24k for RXM. There is also a multiplier based on script volume up to 2x for pharmacies that meet a certain amount of non-controlled Rx per year, so the theoretical true max is 10k for staff and 48k for RXM, which would occur if a store does 5-6k/week (non-controls) for supercenters and less for NHM (I don't recall the actual cutoffs).
