11 Cities With The Highest Demand for Pharmacists

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While doctors may be responsible for prescribing medicine, it is the pharmacists who ensure the effective use of medication, which is something the 11 cities with the highest demand for pharmacists have adequately realized.

As mentioned earlier, it is the job of a pharmacist to understand the effect of medication in addition to therapeutic roles, monitoring parameters and drug interactions as well. Hence, pharmacists generally need an extensive level of education, with courses often running around 5 years.

While it isn’t touted as one of the most popular professions out there, you may be surprised to find out that there are nearly 275,000 pharmacists in the United States of America. But that doesn’t mean that they don’t get paid a lot, just because of the high number of pharmacists in the country. In the over 400 cities used by us to determine our ranking, the average salary earned by a pharmacist was almost $120,000. That’s more than the salary earned by most professions, including personal trainers, as can be seen in the 11 cities with the highest demand for personal trainers.

Most of the pharmacists in the country work in retail, accounting for over 65% of all pharmacists. The next biggest employers of pharmacists are hospitals which employ around 22% of the total pharmacists in the country. The remaining pharmacists tend to work at Internet pharmacies, for the government or with physicians.

We were set out to determine the cities with the highest demand for pharmacies. To do this, we consulted the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and determined the cities with the highest average annual salaries for pharmacists in the city, since higher salaries are paid as a result of an increase in demand. We also determined the cities with the most jobs for pharmacists as higher demand leads to more jobs as well. Once again, the data was obtained courtesy of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

11. Modesto, CA

Average salary for pharmacists in the city: 450

Ranking according to average salary for pharmacists: 125

Total number of jobs for pharmacists in the city: $140,020

Ranking according to total number of jobs: 7

Overall score: 4

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