Which pays more, Pharmacist or Pharmacy Intern?

The median advertised salary for each is in the table above, along with the 25th and 75th percentiles so you can see the spread rather than one number.

Which has more openings?

Both counts are live and computed at the same moment, so the comparison is like for like.

Postings are read from company career systems continuously; the age row shows how old the listings themselves are.

Side by side

Pharmacist vs Pharmacy Intern

Pay is effectively the same — the medians sit under 1% apart. There is 2.3× more demand for Pharmacist. Listings for Pharmacy Intern move faster — median age 52 days against 71.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Pharmacist	Pharmacy Intern	Gap
Open postings	39,742	17,087	+22,655
Posted this week	1,286	810
Median salary	$103,500	$104,500	$-1k
25th percentile	$82k	$82.5k
75th percentile	$129k	$130k
Salary disclosed	4.3%	6.9%
Remote share	6.8%	8.0%	-1.2pp
Median age of posting	71d	52d
Open over 60 days	34.8%	40.6%
Visa sponsorship	18.5%	11.8%

Pay

Pay distribution

Pharmacist

$47k$179k

Pharmacy Intern

$47k$181k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Pharmacist

just posted71d median90d+

Pharmacy Intern

just posted52d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Pharmacist — technologies

TypeScript

72.0%

JavaScript

65.8%

Java

59.6%

Python

53.4%

Tableau

47.2%

Azure

41.0%

GCP

34.8%

Pharmacy Intern — technologies

Java

72.0%

AWS

65.8%

Swift

59.6%

GCP

53.4%

Python

47.2%

Docker

41.0%

Salesforce

34.8%

Pharmacist — employers

Ironbark Manufacturing

9.4%

Tidewater Insurance

8.7%

Quarry Analytics

8.0%

Northwind Systems

7.2%

Vantage Logistics

6.5%

Umbra Security

5.8%

Solstice Biotech

5.1%

Pharmacy Intern — employers

Tidewater Insurance

9.4%

Lakeshore Hospitality

8.7%

Northwind Systems

8.0%

Aperture Labs

7.2%

Ironbark Manufacturing

6.5%

Umbra Security

5.8%

Halcyon Energy

5.1%

More comparisons

Other Healthcare comparisons

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%.