Drug Channels reports pharmacist salaries up 1.6%

PHILADELPHIA - It pays to be a retail pharmacist. Retail pharmacist salaries were up 1.6% on average to $119,400 in 2014, according to the Drug Channels’ exclusive annual analysis of pharmacist salaries, based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ recently released Occupational Employment Statistics. 

 

"For the third consecutive year, pharmacists at mass merchants had the highest average salaries, earning a full-time average of $123,000," noted Adam Fein, CEO Drug Channels Institute, in a blog deliniating pharmacist salaries. "Annual salaries at supermarkets and mail pharmacies were lower."

 

According to the Drug Channels analysis, retail, mail and specialty pharmacies accounted for 63% of total U.S. pharmacist employment, which comprised about 291,000 people.