Pharmacy technician Salary and Career Overview
Apr 27th, 2011 by admin
When the doctor provides the prescription to cure the health issue you are facing, then pharmacy technician is the one who takes care of your needs by providing the right medicine. Being a technician is not an easy task as there will be lots of medicines available in the market and pharmacy technicians have to memorize it. Reading doctors handwriting is also one of the trickiest part of being a pharmacy technician as any normal person cannot understand the handwriting of doctor. If the pharmacy tech by chance gives you the wrong medicine, then it can create disasters in your health, hence being pharmacy technician is not an easy task for each and every one.
During the time of rectification of their license each person will be allotted with different contact hours on which they have to get rectified. On this period they are capable of earning more from other sources like training stores which are having the job, in some of the colleges of pharmacy, and all other pharmacy concerned places possible. By doing this part, some of the training programs on pharmacy technician can create lots of awareness among the people about the role, responsibility and the carrier as an option for youngsters.
Pharmacy technician salary depends on various factors which includes work experience, geographical location, place of work i.e private hospitals, pharmacies etc. An Highly experienced pharmacy tech can earn double wages than the new tech. For eg. A tech having experience of 10 years can earn $20 or more per hour whereas newbies earn just $9-$12 per hour. In a near future, the pay is likely to increase due to the rise in demand of more and more technicians and opening of new pharmacies.
The dedication and the sincerity towards their work is the key for the growth of any pharmacy technician in their profession to a great extent. Some of the survey shows the earnings of some experienced pharmacy technicians in the year 2004. 50 percent of the average pharmacy technician salary would be about $9 to $11. Most of the technicians have the salary of $11 among this 50 percent. The earnings of the top 10 percent technicians were $16 per hour. All the industries concerned with pharmacy hire pharmacy technicians and pay then with good amount of salary. Some of the hospitals pay about $13, while some of the pharmacy stores provide about $11 or $12. The department stores pay the least of $10.