Forbes: Pharmacist ranks No. 1 in best healthcare jobs

NEW YORK — Pharmacist ranks No. 1 in a Forbes list of the best 15 healthcare jobs published Thursday. Of the 15 healthcare positions, the pharmacist commands the highest median salary and the projected growth rate for pharmacist employment is 14% by 2022, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics. 

 

The average annual salary for the pharmacist is $116,670, Forbes reported. 

 

"While the pharmacists at my local Duane Reade appear to toil under fluorescent lights on their feet for eight-hour shifts, while demanding and sometimes desperate customers plead for medication advice to help them with constipation and sleeplessness, [Tony] Lee, [publisher of CareerCast] insists that most pharmacists get satisfaction from helping patients, and have 'a lot of freedom and flexibility in the job,'" wrote Forbes staff writer Susan Adams. 

 

The list is sourced from job search website CareerCast but ranked by Forbes.