Washington DC retail salary?

[SadPharma]

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How much can a new hire be expected to earn in DC? More specifically I would like to know about CVS. They keep telling me that it there is a high demand in Washington. Housing prices there are insane so I'd imagine they'd have to pay more than other areas.

 

[Digsbe]

If you can avoid it stay out of east DC.

 

[SadPharma]

Is that the part of town where they are likely to burn down a CVS?

 

[pharmdit]

I had a job offer in that area a couple years ago. It was for CVS. They offered around $60/HR for a floating position. I declined it and moved to an upstate NY city for about $55/hr and the money went so much farther. Half of my paycheck would've gone to rent in DC. It's not worth it. Plus, traffic is terrible.


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[M0df]

CVS has fired good number of pharmacists in DC area recently, which explains the demand.
They also consider it a challenge area, which explains pressure from the management to perform and high DM/Rx Sup turnover.
They also hire new grads into PIC positions because those positions are not unionized.
Do you still care about possible 5%-10% higher salary? It is probably due to COLA anyway.

 

[sosoo]

CVS has fired good number of pharmacists in DC area recently, which explains the demand.
They also consider it a challenge area, which explains pressure from the management to perform and high DM/Rx Sup turnover.
They also hire new grads into PIC positions because those positions are not unionized.
Do you still care about possible 5%-10% higher salary? It is probably due to COLA anyway.

yes, these past few years i have seen many pharmacists come n go, along with supervisors. very high turnover rate. many cvs in this area are high volume stores.. DC alone has at least 20+ cvs pharmacies! in some parts of DC, u can literally "walk" from one store to another. the problem stores are problematic b/c of severe understaffing.. the district is full of "challenged" stores.. no one wants to be PIC, qs such new grads take the bait. someone has to do it. new grads n a lot of foreign pharmacists graduated god knows where.. i was telling this guy the pt shouldn't be on bupropion b/c the pt has history of seizure. the dude was "clueless." like im speaking a foreign language.