Which pays more, Pharmacy Technician 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 Technician vs Therapist / Counselor

Pharmacy Technician pays more: a median of $101,500 against $94,000. There is 1.9× more demand for Therapist / Counselor. Pharmacy Technician is the more remote-friendly of the two, by 6.5%. Listings for Pharmacy Technician move faster — median age 74 days against 85.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Pharmacy Technician	Therapist / Counselor	Gap
Open postings	7,669	14,899	-7,230
Posted this week	210	424
Median salary	$101,500	$94,000	+$7.5k
25th percentile	$80k	$74.5k
75th percentile	$126k	$117k
Salary disclosed	4.8%	4.1%
Remote share	9.9%	3.4%	+6.5pp
Median age of posting	74d	85d
Open over 60 days	50.2%	33.8%
Visa sponsorship	6.5%	7.8%

Pay

Pay distribution

Pharmacy Technician

$46k$176k

Therapist / Counselor

$42k$163k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Pharmacy Technician

just posted74d median90d+

Therapist / Counselor

just posted85d 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%

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 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%

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%.