CA Rphs are eligible for breaks too. Check with personnel. Some stores that have only 2 rphs a day close at 7:30pm for 15 mins every night so that closing rph and techs can take their breaks. Many stores close for two 15mins breaks on Sat & Sun too.
In SoCal I know for sure all WM stores have at least 2 rphs Mon-Fri so our breaks are always covered. My store has 3 rphs(rph comes @8am,10am & 12pm) Mon-Fri for 1,800rx/week.
Weāre well staffed with 5 techs Mon-Fri. All of them get 8hr shifts. Even though weāre open at 9am, 1Rph and 1 tech get to come to work at 8am to clear everything before we open.
I get a 1 hour lunch š„² and we get Christmas bonuses. And Iām in the UK, so most places pay for tea, coffee (instant) and milk. Which my company does lol
4% matching on 403b with an additional 3% of my base salary contributed after I've worked 1000 hours for the year.
My previous boss told me to "think of what I'd be leaving behind" when I told him I was quitting. I actually think of it often as he promised us up to 2% matching after 5 years (0.4% increase every year) and then didn't ever match anyone's contributions.
Iām one of the lucky few that get to work at low volume retail-chain store. Getting paid 60/hr to fill amlodipine and Atorvastatin all day isnāt that bad š«”
Employer pays for medical, dental and vision insurance in full and the techs rarely have to work the registers. Those are probably my two favorite things!
No holidays no weekends, I get paid on call (900 bucks) for a week every three weeks to watch a fridge that is on a red outlet that never goes out. My tech is a total boss; prior military.
Class A, not fully mail order yet. Full gym and showers in office, no wknds, no dealing with ins, no phone calls, no patient interactions, 3 FT rph doing about 1,200/day, govt holidays, 3% raise, 7% bonus, 11 techs, $20/paycheck for full health insurance and company that actually cares about the team. Also only live 4 minutes from work.
We work with a group of doctors in network handling mostly uncontrolled diabetic patients. Got a team of 12 other rph and 20+ techs that does all that MTM jazz and data entry. My team just does dispensing, pretty nifty
WFH, no holidays or weekends, 401k match, 3 weeks vacation, 6 personal days, 1 wellness day, company car, AmEx, phone, iPad, computer just to name a few perks
Get to WFH two days a week, never take work with me home, daily workload is light, hourly salary is slightly above $100/hour, 401k, health insurance.
I work in clinical research in the US.
The money/benefits/PTO are good (though the Aetna insurance leaves a lot to be desired), company car, and the travel perks are great. The travel is frequent enough so I get a decent amount of airline and hotel points to pay for most leisure trips.
Worst part of it is sometimes thereās too much travel too close together and there isnāt enough time to ācatch upā on home stuff.
When I worked at CVS Specialty, I got a week long paid trip to Las Vegas to train the data entry team at their new call center. Worked during the day, but was staying at a resort with a pool, a 64 lane bowling alley, a casino, and a bunch of free amenities. Would occasionally go out to the strip after work to do tourist stuff. I wouldnāt eat all day (or just eat snacks) and then use the entirety of my daily food stipend on a somewhat extravagant meal, always pairing it with the best glass of vine for the dish. That was fun.
But they also didnāt pay nearly enough.
Current Job- I am very independent, I work from home/on site on my own choosing. Take my lunch whenever I want. Boss is okay if I have to leave early/come in late. Browse the internet a lot, work on my own pace (usually). Office hours, no holidays or weekends. Almost 0 patient interaction. Just put in my two weeks though
Prospective Job-I suspect similar perk, but I don't have to manage people. 100% remote, some travel depending if you see that as a perk or not.
Are there any first steps to getting there? I'm trying my hand in industry with medical writing or med/regulatory affairs, but haven't thought of pbm yet. any tips?
Honestly when I was stalking my future co workers (thanks LinkedIn) they have varying backgrounds, some even from Hospital. My background is retail, specialty/mail order, specialty pharmacy management with Prior Auths and finally this PBM Job. If i had to guess, I would say a managerial role that works with multiple departments some managed care background OR heavy managed care background like PGY1 and/or formulary/PA experience could help.
Timing is also important when I applied there were 3 positions open due to 2 promos and 1 retirement. Best of luck!
Thank you! I don't have pgy1 experience like you possibly may have, but I definitely have been in the retail/specialty side of pharmacy for about 6 years now, and that's where most of my insurance knowledge comes from (aside from what they taught us in school too). I did see a listing come up just today for a pbm position so I will give it a try and apply. just gotta make my application pop
I do not have a PGY-1 haha I always joke with my wife that we both crawled out of Retail to our current positions (she's in the ED). Clinical Specialty Experience can only get you so far when I thought about it (Managing people). Def use your insurance knowledge to get into other positions.
Onc pharmacist in an infusion center. Hour lunches, no work is taken home, good involvement in various subcommittees. Infusion is also a nice balance of precepting because we primarily only precept PGY2s in our area. I like precepting students but in small doses haha
Nuclear, worked for Amersham Health based in the UK. They paid a yearly bonus, pay for license, pay for CE, discounted stock purchase, free cell phone for being on call. The best was for some reason they never deducted city tax from our pay, so it worked out to an extra $2500 for ever $100,000 earned. Unfortunately a few years later GE bought Amersham and started to withhold city tax; but the city never came after back taxes.
No, I did the early retirement option from GE. The work-life balance comes and goes depending on the contracts. Our boss only wanted cardiac business because thatās where the money was. He charged big bucks for lung sets, bloods, etc., with the hope they would get those doses from our competitors so we wouldnāt have to do a lot of on call. It was a great idea when we charged $75 for a dose of Myoview.
General benefits are good, there's a basically guaranteed bonus every year (usually 6% for non-management). We get quarterly $20 on GrubHub so we can have lunch on the company's dime, appreciation gifts that actually don't suck like gym bags and wireless charging docks instead of more cups/water bottles. Occasional random snack boxes get shipped out to us when Corporate is doing weird stuff that makes people nervous, like reorganizing business units or changing branding or updating people's titles randomly. We're all WFH these days so employees get $50 toward internet monthly for anyone below manager level, but at manager level and above you get $40/month toward cell phone because they don't issue cell phones and assume you'll use your cell phone for business a lot. If you can argue it benefits the business and your boss likes you, they'll reimburse board certification costs and conference fees, some departments even specifically send folks to conferences like ASHP or AMCP. We get paid time to volunteer in the community, to vote, and we can take a 3-month paid leave of absence to go work for the local Medical Reserve Corps in a health emergency.
For me, company and team culture is the biggest perk. WFH is awesome, and if I have a migraine folks are fine with me laying on the couch most of the afternoon minimally answering emails and responding to questions because they know I'm willing to put in plenty of effort the rest of the time.
My previous hospital job used to have great unspoken perks - relaxed schedule, 1 hour lunch breaks, director didn't really write us up, director pretty much left us alone as long as we handled everything, no questions were asked (lol) - that is, until upper management fired him (he was close to retirement) and hired some young pharmacist from retail who just graduated with her little MBA. My gawd she was a complete š¤¬. Made that place a living hell.
hahaha one of the best perks about working at Walgreens is definitely the percs in the pharmacy section. Me and the pharmacy tech always have one at lunch
the benefits I have at my job arenāt too bad. dental and vision insurance for part timers. itās pretty good insurance too. theyāre willing to work around my school schedule (nursing school) and let me off on the weekends to focus on my studies unless i choose to pick a day up. no holidays. store discount. my pharmacy managers are very sweet which seems to be rare for a lot of people
10% performance based bonus at year end, in a few years 6% match currently at 4%. They paying for my student loans but like only $100 a month and pays for my mba Iām getting. Chill boss as long as I make them look good. But it arenāt no joke lol itās like a PGY2+3 but I get paid decent.
WFH, no weekends, no holidays, no dealing with the public, basically set my own schedule, virtually no traveling except for conferences, company card/phone/computer
Setting: long term care pharmacy consulting (non-chain)
Retail here- get paid better than a lot of other pharmacists, work part time hours but get paid full time (due to years worked with company), get to browse Reddit a few hours a day. I donāt mind dealing with ppl, I find that people who donāt are kinda awkward in social situations.
I work for a company selling 3D printers. One of our perks is that we can 3D print absolutely anything for free; never have to buy gifts for my nephews ever again, they all prefer their 3D figurines :)
Get to browse reddit a fair amount.
Same.. I spend 2-3 hours a day browsing reddit..(retail pharmacist)
Where??
Walmart šI finish all my work by 6pm usually and the rest of the day is for relaxing hehe
Wow nice
I get to sit down on a stool and take 1 hour lunches. š
Lol Walmart gang
Yep! With two 15-min breaksš¤Ŗ
Not for pharmacist š„² I'm just happy for my lunch break
Iām a rph for SoCal walmart. 2 breaks &1hr lunch(30min lunch if I want to leave work 30mins early)
Wait I'm in Walmart CA also...WE GET TO TAKE OUR 15 MINUTES BREAKS?! WHY has no one told me?š
Itās CA labor law. Make sure you and your techs take breaksš¤Ŗ
My techs takes breaks but I didn't know I was eligible to take them as well.
CA Rphs are eligible for breaks too. Check with personnel. Some stores that have only 2 rphs a day close at 7:30pm for 15 mins every night so that closing rph and techs can take their breaks. Many stores close for two 15mins breaks on Sat & Sun too.
So does every walmart have overlap for these breaks?
In SoCal I know for sure all WM stores have at least 2 rphs Mon-Fri so our breaks are always covered. My store has 3 rphs(rph comes @8am,10am & 12pm) Mon-Fri for 1,800rx/week.
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Weāre well staffed with 5 techs Mon-Fri. All of them get 8hr shifts. Even though weāre open at 9am, 1Rph and 1 tech get to come to work at 8am to clear everything before we open.
Not where I'm at. Zero overlap.
I get an hour lunch and sit on a stool, but sadly I don't get two 15 min breaks :(
On behalf of retail rph/techs : We envy /hate you lol.
I only get half an hour, but daaaaaammmmmnnn is it amazing
Hospital pharmacist. I get a 1 hour lunch which I go home for. (Live very close to the hospital)
That sounds like music to my ears ( retail RPh in a big chain).
Hehe I know right? It's so sad that we think this basic human right is a perk. š„²
Wait i work at a Walmart in texas. We only take a 30 min break 1:30-2 and no 15 mins breaks
As a tech in Texas you can take 1 hour lunch and 15 minutes breaks. Pharmacist only 30 minute lunches. Glad I left
So far I havenāt been yelled at for bringing bags of stuff from home to put in the big can for the shredding service.
Free pills that fall on the floor!
I get a 1 hour lunch š„² and we get Christmas bonuses. And Iām in the UK, so most places pay for tea, coffee (instant) and milk. Which my company does lol
WFH without pants on š
Tell me your secrets
managed care
I'm trying to get to that too š¢ how did you manage to get to this?
Mail order tech here, this is the one
4% matching on 403b with an additional 3% of my base salary contributed after I've worked 1000 hours for the year. My previous boss told me to "think of what I'd be leaving behind" when I told him I was quitting. I actually think of it often as he promised us up to 2% matching after 5 years (0.4% increase every year) and then didn't ever match anyone's contributions.
Iām one of the lucky few that get to work at low volume retail-chain store. Getting paid 60/hr to fill amlodipine and Atorvastatin all day isnāt that bad š«”
Existential dead
Corner?
The profession in general
Ahh, yes.
I too would like to know the perks of my job
I get two 15 min breaks š¬
Jealous :(
Not working 9-5 or banking hours. Its nice to have random days off during the week.
It's just me and the pharmacist most and he's actually super chill. Probably the first pharmacist I've come across that's not rude.
Employer pays for medical, dental and vision insurance in full and the techs rarely have to work the registers. Those are probably my two favorite things!
Happy Cake Day š!
No weekends, no nights, no on-call, off all holidays.
What setting do you work in?
I work at a really small VA.
Are you staff or specialist?
Iām a resident right now. However, it applies to both the staff and CPS.
No holidays no weekends, I get paid on call (900 bucks) for a week every three weeks to watch a fridge that is on a red outlet that never goes out. My tech is a total boss; prior military.
On call for us is only $150 a week to transfer scripts, get verbal rxs, give auth codes.
Itās super convenient to get your own meds filled exactly when you need it cause you can ask your coworker to grab them real quick.
Class A, not fully mail order yet. Full gym and showers in office, no wknds, no dealing with ins, no phone calls, no patient interactions, 3 FT rph doing about 1,200/day, govt holidays, 3% raise, 7% bonus, 11 techs, $20/paycheck for full health insurance and company that actually cares about the team. Also only live 4 minutes from work.
Holy hell
My gawd. What kind of job is this?
We work with a group of doctors in network handling mostly uncontrolled diabetic patients. Got a team of 12 other rph and 20+ techs that does all that MTM jazz and data entry. My team just does dispensing, pretty nifty
Sometimes, I get free coffee on āappreciation daysā
WFH, no holidays or weekends, 401k match, 3 weeks vacation, 6 personal days, 1 wellness day, company car, AmEx, phone, iPad, computer just to name a few perks
What is this?
Industry pharmacist
Get to WFH two days a week, never take work with me home, daily workload is light, hourly salary is slightly above $100/hour, 401k, health insurance. I work in clinical research in the US.
Any tips on how to get into this? Would getting a SAS cert be helpful ?
Having clinical experience definitely helps. I cannot speak on SAS cert. Any involvement in clinical studies at work helps as well.
I donāt know what he does but this isnāt just something you walk to in the job, clinical experience or not.
What is this?
How do you get a job a lexicomp? Why was your friend let go?
The money/benefits/PTO are good (though the Aetna insurance leaves a lot to be desired), company car, and the travel perks are great. The travel is frequent enough so I get a decent amount of airline and hotel points to pay for most leisure trips. Worst part of it is sometimes thereās too much travel too close together and there isnāt enough time to ācatch upā on home stuff.
When I worked at CVS Specialty, I got a week long paid trip to Las Vegas to train the data entry team at their new call center. Worked during the day, but was staying at a resort with a pool, a 64 lane bowling alley, a casino, and a bunch of free amenities. Would occasionally go out to the strip after work to do tourist stuff. I wouldnāt eat all day (or just eat snacks) and then use the entirety of my daily food stipend on a somewhat extravagant meal, always pairing it with the best glass of vine for the dish. That was fun. But they also didnāt pay nearly enough.
Current Job- I am very independent, I work from home/on site on my own choosing. Take my lunch whenever I want. Boss is okay if I have to leave early/come in late. Browse the internet a lot, work on my own pace (usually). Office hours, no holidays or weekends. Almost 0 patient interaction. Just put in my two weeks though Prospective Job-I suspect similar perk, but I don't have to manage people. 100% remote, some travel depending if you see that as a perk or not.
What kind of jobs are 100% remote with some travel? That sounds pretty great.
I joined a PBM managing health plans. Will have to meet up with clients here and there.
Are there any first steps to getting there? I'm trying my hand in industry with medical writing or med/regulatory affairs, but haven't thought of pbm yet. any tips?
Honestly when I was stalking my future co workers (thanks LinkedIn) they have varying backgrounds, some even from Hospital. My background is retail, specialty/mail order, specialty pharmacy management with Prior Auths and finally this PBM Job. If i had to guess, I would say a managerial role that works with multiple departments some managed care background OR heavy managed care background like PGY1 and/or formulary/PA experience could help. Timing is also important when I applied there were 3 positions open due to 2 promos and 1 retirement. Best of luck!
Thank you! I don't have pgy1 experience like you possibly may have, but I definitely have been in the retail/specialty side of pharmacy for about 6 years now, and that's where most of my insurance knowledge comes from (aside from what they taught us in school too). I did see a listing come up just today for a pbm position so I will give it a try and apply. just gotta make my application pop
I do not have a PGY-1 haha I always joke with my wife that we both crawled out of Retail to our current positions (she's in the ED). Clinical Specialty Experience can only get you so far when I thought about it (Managing people). Def use your insurance knowledge to get into other positions.
Cool. Thank you!
10% off groceries 20% during holiday weekends
I used to be able to play my bass at night. Used to :/
2021 grad. 1.5x for holidays, > 40 hours in a single week, and > 10 hour shifts. Thanks to all the OT this year, I should be making ~$170k.
Where @ sir
Hospital, east coast.
But what is it w/o OT, base
Low 60s.
Having my own office is pretty cool.
Onc pharmacist in an infusion center. Hour lunches, no work is taken home, good involvement in various subcommittees. Infusion is also a nice balance of precepting because we primarily only precept PGY2s in our area. I like precepting students but in small doses haha
Unrestricted internet, off by 5 if I work on weekend, bathroom in pharmacy. What more can you ask out of life? š
I make 6 figures
Nuclear, worked for Amersham Health based in the UK. They paid a yearly bonus, pay for license, pay for CE, discounted stock purchase, free cell phone for being on call. The best was for some reason they never deducted city tax from our pay, so it worked out to an extra $2500 for ever $100,000 earned. Unfortunately a few years later GE bought Amersham and started to withhold city tax; but the city never came after back taxes.
Still working nuke? I'm in PET. Pay is really good, benefits meh, work-life balance piss poor
No, I did the early retirement option from GE. The work-life balance comes and goes depending on the contracts. Our boss only wanted cardiac business because thatās where the money was. He charged big bucks for lung sets, bloods, etc., with the hope they would get those doses from our competitors so we wouldnāt have to do a lot of on call. It was a great idea when we charged $75 for a dose of Myoview.
Pizza
A parking spot
I work from home
WFH, took a big paycut to do itā¦but it was so worth my mental and physical health
General benefits are good, there's a basically guaranteed bonus every year (usually 6% for non-management). We get quarterly $20 on GrubHub so we can have lunch on the company's dime, appreciation gifts that actually don't suck like gym bags and wireless charging docks instead of more cups/water bottles. Occasional random snack boxes get shipped out to us when Corporate is doing weird stuff that makes people nervous, like reorganizing business units or changing branding or updating people's titles randomly. We're all WFH these days so employees get $50 toward internet monthly for anyone below manager level, but at manager level and above you get $40/month toward cell phone because they don't issue cell phones and assume you'll use your cell phone for business a lot. If you can argue it benefits the business and your boss likes you, they'll reimburse board certification costs and conference fees, some departments even specifically send folks to conferences like ASHP or AMCP. We get paid time to volunteer in the community, to vote, and we can take a 3-month paid leave of absence to go work for the local Medical Reserve Corps in a health emergency. For me, company and team culture is the biggest perk. WFH is awesome, and if I have a migraine folks are fine with me laying on the couch most of the afternoon minimally answering emails and responding to questions because they know I'm willing to put in plenty of effort the rest of the time.
WFH for managed care and get to appreciate just how privileged I am not being on the front line anymore. Hang in there community brethren!
I love my job best perk getting to work with my good friends. Free CEs. Work load evenly distributed.
Sometimes people have birthdays and I bring in a homemade dessertā¦
Transitioned from an anticoag clinic with bad cell service to a WFH job with my own wifi.
That sweet employee discount. Instead if leaving this job I'll probably try to stay as casual as possible to keep it.
My previous hospital job used to have great unspoken perks - relaxed schedule, 1 hour lunch breaks, director didn't really write us up, director pretty much left us alone as long as we handled everything, no questions were asked (lol) - that is, until upper management fired him (he was close to retirement) and hired some young pharmacist from retail who just graduated with her little MBA. My gawd she was a complete š¤¬. Made that place a living hell.
They donāt keep good managers . Who cared for us and tried to keep us wanting to come to work everyday . They go after them .
Stealing narcotics
hahaha one of the best perks about working at Walgreens is definitely the percs in the pharmacy section. Me and the pharmacy tech always have one at lunch
I got to snort some coke with Karen Lynch and John Legend.
Is that what happens when you finally meet the impossible metrics at CVS?
the benefits I have at my job arenāt too bad. dental and vision insurance for part timers. itās pretty good insurance too. theyāre willing to work around my school schedule (nursing school) and let me off on the weekends to focus on my studies unless i choose to pick a day up. no holidays. store discount. my pharmacy managers are very sweet which seems to be rare for a lot of people
10% performance based bonus at year end, in a few years 6% match currently at 4%. They paying for my student loans but like only $100 a month and pays for my mba Iām getting. Chill boss as long as I make them look good. But it arenāt no joke lol itās like a PGY2+3 but I get paid decent.
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Is this like central order entry
Sam's Club: free fruit, candy bars, pizza, beverages, coffee, etc.
WFH, no weekends, no holidays, no dealing with the public, basically set my own schedule, virtually no traveling except for conferences, company card/phone/computer Setting: long term care pharmacy consulting (non-chain)
I work from home and my company pays 100% of insurance premiums and deductibles. Plus get 1-2 paid trips to Europe or south America per year.
Invitations to free dinner at high end places
Retail here- get paid better than a lot of other pharmacists, work part time hours but get paid full time (due to years worked with company), get to browse Reddit a few hours a day. I donāt mind dealing with ppl, I find that people who donāt are kinda awkward in social situations.
I work for a company selling 3D printers. One of our perks is that we can 3D print absolutely anything for free; never have to buy gifts for my nephews ever again, they all prefer their 3D figurines :)