Which pays more, Pharmacy Intern 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

Pharmacy Intern vs Physical Therapist

Pharmacy Intern pays more: a median of $104,500 against $96,500. There is 2.4× more demand for Physical Therapist. Physical Therapist is the more remote-friendly of the two, by 5.0%. Listings for Pharmacy Intern move faster — median age 52 days against 70.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Pharmacy Intern	Physical Therapist	Gap
Open postings	17,087	40,356	-23,269
Posted this week	810	3,573
Median salary	$104,500	$96,500	+$8k
25th percentile	$82.5k	$76k
75th percentile	$130k	$120k
Salary disclosed	6.9%	8.5%
Remote share	8.0%	13.0%	-5.0pp
Median age of posting	52d	70d
Open over 60 days	40.6%	44.7%
Visa sponsorship	11.8%	23.7%

Pay

Pay distribution

Pharmacy Intern

$47k$181k

Physical Therapist

$43k$167k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Pharmacy Intern

just posted52d median90d+

Physical Therapist

just posted70d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Pharmacy Intern — technologies

Java

72.0%

AWS

65.8%

Swift

59.6%

GCP

53.4%

Python

47.2%

Docker

41.0%

Salesforce

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%

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%

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%.