Which pays more, Pharmacy Technician 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 Technician vs Physical Therapist

Pharmacy Technician pays more: a median of $101,500 against $96,500. There is 5.3× more demand for Physical Therapist.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Pharmacy Technician	Physical Therapist	Gap
Open postings	7,669	40,356	-32,687
Posted this week	210	3,573
Median salary	$101,500	$96,500	+$5k
25th percentile	$80k	$76k
75th percentile	$126k	$120k
Salary disclosed	4.8%	8.5%
Remote share	9.9%	13.0%	-3.1pp
Median age of posting	74d	70d
Open over 60 days	50.2%	44.7%
Visa sponsorship	6.5%	23.7%

Pay

Pay distribution

Pharmacy Technician

$46k$176k

Physical Therapist

$43k$167k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Pharmacy Technician

just posted74d median90d+

Physical Therapist

just posted70d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Pharmacy Technician — technologies

Swift

72.0%

AWS

65.8%

Kubernetes

59.6%

GCP

53.4%

TypeScript

47.2%

PostgreSQL

41.0%

React

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 Technician — employers

Tidewater Insurance

9.4%

Northwind Systems

8.7%

Aperture Labs

8.0%

Umbra Security

7.2%

Rivergate Media

6.5%

Cobalt Financial

5.8%

Kestrel Health

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%.