Which pays more, Pharmacy Intern or Therapist / Counselor?

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 Therapist / Counselor

Pharmacy Intern pays more: a median of $104,500 against $94,000. Demand is comparable on both sides. Listings for Pharmacy Intern move faster — median age 52 days against 85.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Pharmacy Intern	Therapist / Counselor	Gap
Open postings	17,087	14,899	+2,188
Posted this week	810	424
Median salary	$104,500	$94,000	+$10.5k
25th percentile	$82.5k	$74.5k
75th percentile	$130k	$117k
Salary disclosed	6.9%	4.1%
Remote share	8.0%	3.4%	+4.6pp
Median age of posting	52d	85d
Open over 60 days	40.6%	33.8%
Visa sponsorship	11.8%	7.8%

Pay

Pay distribution

Pharmacy Intern

$47k$181k

Therapist / Counselor

$42k$163k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Pharmacy Intern

just posted52d median90d+

Therapist / Counselor

just posted85d 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%

Therapist / Counselor — technologies

PostgreSQL

72.0%

TypeScript

65.8%

Terraform

59.6%

Kubernetes

53.4%

Spark

47.2%

Azure

41.0%

JavaScript

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%

Therapist / Counselor — employers

Aperture Labs

9.4%

Brightline Retail

8.7%

Meridian Software

8.0%

Fairmount Legal

7.2%

Beacon Robotics

6.5%

Ironbark Manufacturing

5.8%

Cobalt Financial

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%.