Pharmaceutical technicians are a vital part of the pharmaceutical supply chain. These individuals are responsible for ensuring that each drug is shipped from the manufacturer to the pharmacy. Many times they work long hours, which can be exhausting and tiring.
The pharmaceutical technician that I’ve been lucky enough to interview recently told me that for each drug the technician has to put in an order, the pharmacy has to pick up that order. For each order, they have to pay the pharmacy a certain percentage. For example, some drugs are not shipped from the manufacturer to the pharmacy until it’s the pharmacy’s turn to pay the pharmacy a certain amount. The technician has to make sure that the pharmacy pays the pharmacy the amount that they have requested.
While this might sound like a crazy thing to do, its actually a fairly standard practice in the industry. If you have a drug that you want to ship it to a pharmacy in, you make sure that the pharmacy is paying you for the order. Ive actually used this as an example to illustrate how hard it is to get pharma employees to do the job that they should be doing.
Pharmacy techs are typically paid a salary for performing routine tasks such as drug deliveries and filling prescriptions at retail pharmacies. Unlike other types of pharmacy techs, pharmacy tech salaries are typically fixed. That is, the technician has to submit a request for compensation to be paid to them. But in the case of many of the other job titles, the technician may be paid a certain amount and that amount can vary depending on the pharmacy for which they are working.
Pharmacy tech is a fairly common job title online. But the salary generally isn’t fixed. That said, it does vary depending on the type of pharmacy the technician works at. You can even see where you would get a decent salary for a technician doing a pharmacy technician job on this page.
So a pharmacy technician working in a big pharmacy would likely be paid a much higher salary than one working in a mid-sized pharmacy, and a mid-sized pharmacy would likely be paid a much lower salary than a small pharmacy.
The most common job title online for a pharmacy technician is “pharmacy tech.” The title is a bit of a misnomer though because the pharmacist is actually the one that actually does the work. They are the ones that make sure the pharmacy runs smoothly and that the prescriptions are filled in the correct quantity. The pharmacist is also often the one who has to deal with the customers when they have a question, or have questions about their prescriptions and needs.
This is another example of how jobs are changing and how the people who do the jobs change. In many professions, there are no real roles for anyone to fill. At least in my experience.
In medicine, the pharmacist is the one who is ultimately responsible for the drugs being taken and the patients being treated. Doctors are the ones who do the actual science and medical writing.
Pharmacists are now making a lot of money. A few years ago, when I was a medical student in med school, I had to deal with a pharmacist who did what he called “pharmacy management” (or at least the title of a popular TV show on Netflix). Pharmacy management was a job that looked at a drug’s potential, and then the pharmacist would decide if it was worth taking.
