Side by side

Medical Assistant vs Pharmacy Technician

Pharmacy Technician pays more: a median of $101,500 against $65,000. There is 2.6× more demand for Medical Assistant. Pharmacy Technician is the more remote-friendly of the two, by 6.8%. Listings for Medical Assistant move faster — median age 44 days against 74.

Comparison

Side by side

MeasureMedical AssistantPharmacy TechnicianGap
Open postings20,2827,669+12,613
Posted this week830210
Median salary$65,000$101,500$-36.5k
25th percentile$51.5k$80k
75th percentile$80.5k$126k
Salary disclosed3.8%4.8%
Remote share3.1%9.9%-6.8pp
Median age of posting44d74d
Open over 60 days32.1%50.2%
Visa sponsorship12.8%6.5%
Pay

Pay distribution

Medical Assistant

$29k$112k

Pharmacy Technician

$46k$176k
Freshness

How old the listings are

Medical Assistant

just posted44d median90d+

Pharmacy Technician

just posted74d median90d+
Demand

What each side asks for

Medical Assistant — technologies

Kubernetes
72.0%
Node.js
65.8%
GCP
59.6%
dbt
53.4%
Tableau
47.2%
JavaScript
41.0%
Spark
34.8%

Pharmacy Technician — technologies

Swift
72.0%
AWS
65.8%
Kubernetes
59.6%
GCP
53.4%
TypeScript
47.2%
PostgreSQL
41.0%
React
34.8%

Medical Assistant — employers

Vantage Logistics
9.4%
Northwind Systems
8.7%
Solstice Biotech
8.0%
Quarry Analytics
7.2%
Pinewood Education
6.5%
Meridian Software
5.8%
Cobalt Financial
5.1%

Pharmacy Technician — employers

Tidewater Insurance
9.4%
Northwind Systems
8.7%
Aperture Labs
8.0%
Umbra Security
7.2%
Rivergate Media
6.5%
Cobalt Financial
5.8%
Kestrel Health
5.1%

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Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.