Which pays more, Pharmacy Technician 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 Technician vs Physician

Physician pays more: a median of $223,500 against $101,500. There is 5.2× more demand for Physician. Listings for Physician move faster — median age 43 days against 74.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Pharmacy Technician	Physician	Gap
Open postings	7,669	39,626	-31,957
Posted this week	210	1,356
Median salary	$101,500	$223,500	$-122k
25th percentile	$80k	$177k
75th percentile	$126k	$277k
Salary disclosed	4.8%	8.2%
Remote share	9.9%	11.0%	-1.1pp
Median age of posting	74d	43d
Open over 60 days	50.2%	36.4%
Visa sponsorship	6.5%	12.8%

Pay

Pay distribution

Pharmacy Technician

$46k$176k

Physician

$101k$387k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Pharmacy Technician

just posted74d median90d+

Physician

just posted43d 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%

Physician — technologies

72.0%

Terraform

65.8%

TypeScript

59.6%

JavaScript

53.4%

Docker

47.2%

HubSpot

41.0%

Java

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%

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%.