Which pays more, Pharmacy Intern or Physician?

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 Physician

Physician pays more: a median of $223,500 against $104,500. There is 2.3× more demand for Physician. Listings for Physician move faster — median age 43 days against 52.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Pharmacy Intern	Physician	Gap
Open postings	17,087	39,626	-22,539
Posted this week	810	1,356
Median salary	$104,500	$223,500	$-119k
25th percentile	$82.5k	$177k
75th percentile	$130k	$277k
Salary disclosed	6.9%	8.2%
Remote share	8.0%	11.0%	-3.0pp
Median age of posting	52d	43d
Open over 60 days	40.6%	36.4%
Visa sponsorship	11.8%	12.8%

Pay

Pay distribution

Pharmacy Intern

$47k$181k

Physician

$101k$387k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Pharmacy Intern

just posted52d median90d+

Physician

just posted43d 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%

Physician — technologies

72.0%

Terraform

65.8%

TypeScript

59.6%

JavaScript

53.4%

Docker

47.2%

HubSpot

41.0%

Java

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%

Physician — employers

Quarry Analytics

9.4%

Brightline Retail

8.7%

Solstice Biotech

8.0%

Halcyon Energy

7.2%

Northwind Systems

6.5%

Meridian Software

5.8%

Rivergate Media

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%.