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Pay for pharmacy
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What is the starting pay for community pharmacists, and what is the top pay you could expect after working in community for a few years? I'm just looking for some figures from anyone who knows a pharmacist or who is one. Thanks.
What is the starting pay for community pharmacists, and what is the top pay you could expect after working in community for a few years? I'm just looking for some figures from anyone who knows a pharmacist or who is one. Thanks.
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Locum pharmacists can earn from £18 per hour. Sorry I'm not much help.
Locums tend to earn more I think, as they can claim expenses etc. for having to travel. Pharmacy is not paid well enough though, if only people knew the amount of stick you get from customers when you work in one.
I heard the average pre - reg is 16k a year
Average after that, just working in a pharmacy and not owning it is roughly 35.5k a year
Average after that, just working in a pharmacy and not owning it is roughly 35.5k a year
In community most is around 40k that’s doing a lot in the shop i.e. manager. Sister is locum and earns 30-35k not sure, working 3-5 days a week depending on month. Very hard to own business these days as they cost so much even with other investors and the competition. So you can't really go any further in community pharmacy once you qualify compared to what you could in hospital and it's very repetitive.
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I heard the average pre - reg is 16k a year
Hospital is ~19.6K (outside London)
The days of independent trader(own shop) is coming to an end.
It's becoming more and more difficult for indies to compete against the chains such as llyods and Boots, as organizations such care homes prefer to have a "all in one" affair to lower their overheads.
Doesn't help that supermarkets have been given the right to open their own in house dispensary or that chains(boots etc) are now sponsoring GP's to build to new practices with a built in dispensary ie they (boots) build the clinic so long as they have the right to open up shop right inside the front doors.There's nothing wrong with this because the Doctors have no right to tell ht patient where to ge their prescription.
The sad thing is that no one, not even the BPS, is doing anything to stop it. They should have banded together long ago and stopped the legislation coming through.
It's becoming more and more difficult for indies to compete against the chains such as llyods and Boots, as organizations such care homes prefer to have a "all in one" affair to lower their overheads.
Doesn't help that supermarkets have been given the right to open their own in house dispensary or that chains(boots etc) are now sponsoring GP's to build to new practices with a built in dispensary ie they (boots) build the clinic so long as they have the right to open up shop right inside the front doors.There's nothing wrong with this because the Doctors have no right to tell ht patient where to ge their prescription.
The sad thing is that no one, not even the BPS, is doing anything to stop it. They should have banded together long ago and stopped the legislation coming through.
Nursing homes, schools, etc. are good business because they bring lots of prescription numbers in. Independents can't complete with the chains because the chains can offer lots of incentives to the customers (like medicines lockers, drugs trolleys for nursing homes, etc.) - not strictly legitimate but it goes on.
IMO pay is quite poor for what we have to put up with (and the cost of living these days). Realistic hourly rate for a locum is £20-30 per hour - I earn around the mid 20s. Working full time, this comes up to around £40-45K/year. Around the same or a little more can be had as a manager of a pharmacy (but with much more responsibility like the dreaded MURs, end of month paperwork, running the staff side of the business, etc.).
Hospital pay is miserly - incoming band6s get mid £20K to £30K, after 3 years you can move to band7 and get mid £30Ks and then upwards from that as you climb to 8a,8b,8c (around £70k is the norm for an 8c IIRC).
IMO pay is quite poor for what we have to put up with (and the cost of living these days). Realistic hourly rate for a locum is £20-30 per hour - I earn around the mid 20s. Working full time, this comes up to around £40-45K/year. Around the same or a little more can be had as a manager of a pharmacy (but with much more responsibility like the dreaded MURs, end of month paperwork, running the staff side of the business, etc.).
Hospital pay is miserly - incoming band6s get mid £20K to £30K, after 3 years you can move to band7 and get mid £30Ks and then upwards from that as you climb to 8a,8b,8c (around £70k is the norm for an 8c IIRC).
The salary is good but not special. You do get job security (wait 'til you get older, this is almost priceless) and flexibility. Flexibility will allow you to earn a decent wage working part-time, locumming when you want etc or even, as one of my friends did, work weekends to earn some cash while studying another degree (medicine in my friend's case).
silent ninja
The salary is good but not special. You do get job security (wait 'til you get older, this is almost priceless) and flexibility. Flexibility will allow you to earn a decent wage working part-time, locumming when you want etc or even, as one of my friends did, work weekends to earn some cash while studying another degree (medicine in my friend's case).
Out of interest which uni did your friend go to for medicine?
petzneo
Out of interest which uni did your friend go to for medicine?
Warwick postgrad medicine... incidentally where I'll be heading.
I know pharmacists (cousins in fact) that earn around the £50k wage bracket and they work in community pharmacies. They're not cluster leaders or anything, one just recently registered about two years ago, so experience doesn't necessarily mean much in my opinion.
One of them is currently on maternity leave but she told me if she worked full time she would earn in excess of £55k. She works part time (one day a week!- talk about flexible) as a PCT pharmacist. Another one is currently doing the course so you can independently prescribe, but I'm not entirely sure of his current wage but its definately good, as his Mercedes S-Class portrays.
One of them is currently on maternity leave but she told me if she worked full time she would earn in excess of £55k. She works part time (one day a week!- talk about flexible) as a PCT pharmacist. Another one is currently doing the course so you can independently prescribe, but I'm not entirely sure of his current wage but its definately good, as his Mercedes S-Class portrays.
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