Whakawhiwhinga
Pharmacist licence (PharmD)
Four years of doctoral study and six figures of debt for work that pays well and is one of the few on this site where almost everyone who finishes ends up earning.
Ko te utu hei whiwhi — te haurua o te awhe.
Mō ngā marama o te whakaakoranga, i te wā katoa. Ka roa ake te wā wātea.
Ko ngā marama o te utu utu e hiahiatia ana hei whakawhāiti i taua utu. Kāore i te marama tae noa ki te wā e haere ana koe i mua i te katoa - ka tae mai te wā whakaakoranga i runga ake nei i te tuatahi.
Ka taea te whakataki te pūtake: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · kitenga
He aha taua taupū utu, he aha kāore i te mea.
The spread between the quarters is wider than for dentistry or medicine, which is a real finding about where you study rather than noise. That range is median cumulative FEDERAL LOAN DEBT at completion, not a tuition sticker price and not total cost. It is what completers actually borrowed, so it excludes grants, savings, family money, employer funding and living costs — which makes it a FLOOR on what the credential costs, never a ceiling. The low and high figures are the 25th and 75th percentiles across the institutions that report a figure for this programme, so a quarter of institutions sit below the low end. College Scorecard pools two award years into each figure; the release used here is dated 10 June 2026.
Four years of doctoral study, usually after two to four years of undergraduate prerequisites, then the NAPLEX and a state law examination.
Licences renew every one to two years by state with continuing education requirements.
He tokomaha nga tāngata e pupuri ana i tēnei, he tokomaha hoki e mahi ana i roto i te āpure.
Kāore i taea e tātau te pūtake o tēnei
Mō ētahi tohu, ka whakaputaina e te tinana whakawhiwhinga he tatau tūturu o ia tangata e pupuri ana i a ia, ā, i reira ka whakaputaina e tātau taua tatau i te taha o te tau o ngā tāngata e mahi ana i roto i te mahi. Kāore he tatau pērā mō tēnei ka taea e tātau te whakamātautau, nō reira kāore e whakaatu ana tēnei pātaka i tētahi. E noho ana mātou te mokowā mārama i te whakawātea i te whakawāteatanga i te whakawāteatanga — he kino ake te whakawāteatanga i te kore, nā te mea kāore e taea te manatoko.
The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy publishes a national count of licensed pharmacists, and it is behind a $395 paywall in its Survey of Pharmacy Law. A figure a reader cannot check is not a figure we will publish, so this page carries no credential-holder count. What it does carry, below, is the federal record of what happened to the people who completed the degree.
He aha te take o nga tāngata i oti te whakaakoranga?
E whā tau i muri i te oti — he whika mō te waehere papatono, ehara i te mea mō tēnei mahi anake.
Ko te mea 14,903 ngā tāngata i oti Pharmacy, first professional degree Kāore anō rātau kia ako i te whā tau i muri mai, 438 Kāore i whiwhi i te moni i runga i te pūkete — 2.9%. Ko ērā i mahi i whiwhi i tētahi tauwaenga o te 100. $138,348, me te haurua o waenganui i waenganui $120,409 me $158,074.
Kāore he "whakahaere i te pūkete" e kore ana e "kore mahi". Ko te inenga ko te korenga o tētahi pūkete utu me tētahi moni whiwhinga tōrunga mō te tau katoa. Kāore i pātaihia e tētahi mēnā e hiahiatia ana e rātou te mahi, nō reira ka pupuri te tatau i ngā tāngata i mahue te kaha mahi i te kōwhiringa - te whakawhanake i ngā tamariki, te tiaki, te haere, te noho i runga i te moni whiwhinga o tētahi atu tangata, te neke atu ki waho - i te taha o ia e hiahia ana ki tētahi mahi ā, kāore i te whai. Kāore e whakaputaina e tētahi te wehenga, ā, kāore e whakaaro ana tātau. Ko te mea e whakatau ana he maha ngā tāngata i oti tēnei whakaakoranga, ā, kāore i whiwhi i tētahi atu mea mai i a ia, mai i ētahi atu mea rānei i te whā tau, ko te mea e kore e taea e te tau o te utu ki runga te kī ki a koe.
Kāore tēnei whika i te hāngai ki tēnei mahi. Ka whakaputaina e te kāwanatanga ā iwi ngā hua o te papatono i te mārō-whā-mati, ā, kāore i te tino pai ake, ā, ka tiritiri ngā papatono o tēnei tohu i tō rātou waehere ki ētahi atu, nō reira ka whakaahuatia e te whika ngā tangata katoa i oti i tētahi mea i raro i taua waehere i tēnei taumata, ehara i te tangata anake i haere ki te mahi i tēnei mahi.
Ko te mea e tautuhi ana te waehere papatono: CIP 51.20 is pharmacy together with pharmaceutical sciences and pharmacy administration. The first-professional row is the PharmD, the route to licensure; the doctoral row is largely research doctorates in pharmaceutical science, which lead to laboratory and industry work rather than a pharmacy counter.
Ko wai i roto i te kohoro: Ko te nuinga o nga kaiako i whiwhi i te āwhina ā-iwi o te ākonga - tata ki te haurua o nga ākonga US, ā, kāore i te ine i tēnei wāhi. Ko ngā tāngata i haere ki te akoranga ā-whāiti, kāore i roto i te tīwae kotahi. Ko te Tari e whakakore ana i ngā whare wānanga me ngā rōpū iti rawa hei whakaputa, ā, ka tāpiri i te pōhēhētanga tatauranga ki te toenga, nō reira ko tēnei he taumaha i runga i ngā whare wānanga nui rawa ki te pūrongo: 80 o rātau, e whakaora ana 93.0% Ko te tatau ā-motu o te Tari mō tēnei papatono. Ka neke te mokatere o te whakawāteatanga o ngā papatono pūrongo iti rawa 0.0 Ko ngā pūwāhi ōrautanga.
Ka taea te whakataki te pūtake: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · kitenga · te taurite ōrite mō ia papatono ka taea e tātau te whakaputa
Ko te mea e whakaae ana ia kia mahia e koe
Ko te utu e pā ana ki te mahi, ehara i te tohu. Ko ēnei ngā mahi e whakaaetia ana e ia.
| He mahi | E hiahiatia ana? | Median | Ka mahi |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacists | Legally required to hold the job | $140,910 | 321,970 |
Ko te utu me te mahi pāpāho: BLS Kaimahi me ngā Tatauranga Uara, Mei 2025.
E utu ana rātau mō rātau anō?
Ko te mahi e whakawātea ana tēnei e utu ana i tētahi tauwaenga o $140,910. Ko te pūtahi o te mahi-tō- $50,020, Nō reira ko te utu mo te pupuri i tēnei e tata ana ki $90,890 kotahi tau i mua i te tāke.
Ka pānui tēnei hei whakataurite ki tētahi mahi noa iho, ehara i te āhua o tōmu mahi. He aha taua raina taketake, me te mea e waiho ana i waho
Ka whakaaro hoki ka whiwhi i te mahi. Ko ia whika utu i tēnei pae e whakawhāiti ana ki te whakawhiwhinga ki te mahi. Ko te whakaaro tonu ko te tatau o te kaipupuri tohu i runga ake nei kia whakamātautia, ā, ko te whakaaro tonu e mahi ai ia atu pae utu.
Ko te mea e hiahiatia ana e koe i mua i te tīmatanga
- Undergraduate prerequisites, and at many schools a bachelor's degree
- A place at an ACPE-accredited school of pharmacy
- A pass in the NAPLEX and the state pharmacy law examination
Kāore i te mahi tēnei mēnā
- you are counting on the retail job market of a decade ago — chain closures have reduced the number of community pharmacy posts and the competition for hospital and clinical roles is correspondingly harder
- you cannot stand for a full shift, which most community pharmacy work requires
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