Side by side

Pharmacy Technician vs Registered Nurse

Pay is effectively the same — the medians sit under 1% apart. There is 5.0× more demand for Registered Nurse.

Comparison

Side by side

MeasurePharmacy TechnicianRegistered NurseGap
Open postings7,66938,089-30,420
Posted this week210837
Median salary$101,500$102,500$-1k
25th percentile$80k$81k
75th percentile$126k$127k
Salary disclosed4.8%7.5%
Remote share9.9%5.3%+4.6pp
Median age of posting74d77d
Open over 60 days50.2%41.2%
Visa sponsorship6.5%16.2%
Pay

Pay distribution

Pharmacy Technician

$46k$176k

Registered Nurse

$46k$177k
Freshness

How old the listings are

Pharmacy Technician

just posted74d median90d+

Registered Nurse

just posted77d 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%

Registered Nurse — technologies

Kubernetes
72.0%
SQL
65.8%
GCP
59.6%
Docker
53.4%
Swift
47.2%
Kotlin
41.0%
TypeScript
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%

Registered Nurse — employers

Rivergate Media
9.4%
Northwind Systems
8.7%
Beacon Robotics
8.0%
Tidewater Insurance
7.2%
Brightline Retail
6.5%
Meridian Software
5.8%
Umbra Security
5.1%

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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%.