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Pharmacy Outcomes & Career Options
Pharmacists may be employed in hospitals, clinics, or community pharmacies. Other employment opportunities might include being sales representatives for drug manufacturers and wholesalers, teaching pharmacy colleges, developing new medicines, editing & writing articles for pharmaceutical journals, and administrative work.
Educational Qualifications
Job Outlook
3% Job Market Growth
$136,030 Median Salary
Entering Salary
The median annual wage for pharmacists was $136,030 in May 2023. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $89,980, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $168,650.
In May 2023, the median annual wages for pharmacists in the top industries in which they worked were as follows:
- Ambulatory healthcare services $150,110
- Hospitals; state, local, and private $144,460
- General merchandise retailers $141,880
- Pharmacies and drug retailers $131,290
Partial information in this page was retrieved from Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Pharmacists, at https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/pharmacists.htm (visited April 17, 2024).
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