Which pays more, Pharmacist or Physical Therapist?

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 Physical Therapist

Pharmacist pays more: a median of $103,500 against $96,500. Demand is comparable on both sides. Physical Therapist is the more remote-friendly of the two, by 6.2%.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Pharmacist	Physical Therapist	Gap
Open postings	39,742	40,356	-614
Posted this week	1,286	3,573
Median salary	$103,500	$96,500	+$7k
25th percentile	$82k	$76k
75th percentile	$129k	$120k
Salary disclosed	4.3%	8.5%
Remote share	6.8%	13.0%	-6.2pp
Median age of posting	71d	70d
Open over 60 days	34.8%	44.7%
Visa sponsorship	18.5%	23.7%

Pay

Pay distribution

Pharmacist

$47k$179k

Physical Therapist

$43k$167k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Pharmacist

just posted71d median90d+

Physical Therapist

just posted70d 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%

Physical Therapist — technologies

Spark

72.0%

Kotlin

65.8%

Terraform

59.6%

Snowflake

53.4%

Java

47.2%

dbt

41.0%

Kubernetes

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%

Physical Therapist — employers

Halcyon Energy

9.4%

Lakeshore Hospitality

8.7%

Meridian Software

8.0%

Vantage Logistics

7.2%

Brightline Retail

6.5%

Solstice Biotech

5.8%

Northwind Systems

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%.