How is the salary of a licensed pharmacist?

(1) First, let’s take a look at the salary and benefits of practicing pharmacists nationwide last year:

1) According to statistics from Zhiyouji, the average monthly income of practicing pharmacists nationwide in 2018 It is 5,590 yuan, compared with the national average monthly salary of licensed pharmacists in 2017, which was 5,190 yuan. Comparing the national average monthly salary, the monthly income of practicing pharmacists has steadily increased by more than 400 yuan in 2018.

2) According to salary data from the Medical Talent Network, as of early September 2018, the demand for talent recruitment in the pharmaceutical industry had increased by 10.6% year-on-year. Judging from the average salary of practicing pharmacists, Chongqing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Beijing have higher average salaries, which are 7,512 yuan/month, 7,454 yuan/month, 7,163 yuan/month, and 6,781 yuan/month respectively.

The above data shows that the average monthly salary level of practicing pharmacists is not low, and most retail pharmaceutical companies remunerate practicing pharmacists in addition to fixed wages, including sales commissions, incentives, subsidies, benefits, etc. Hidden income, so it has become a fact that as a diligent and responsible licensed pharmacist in a first-tier city, your monthly salary will exceed 10,000 yuan in 2018.

(2) Let’s take a look at the current market situation of practicing pharmacists:

According to the salary data of BOSS direct recruitment, the salary of practicing pharmacists recruited by some drugstores and pharmaceutical companies in Beijing in March 2019 Already in the tens of thousands, the monthly income of pharmacists in other areas can also be around 6-8K. It can be seen that the wages of practicing pharmacists have been rising steadily in recent years, especially in the Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen regions.

(3) Salary prospects for licensed pharmacists:

1) From the perspective of job benefits

Practiced pharmacist qualification certificate = supervisor pharmacist/supervisor Chinese pharmacist. In March 2019, the State Food and Drug Administration issued the "Regulations on the Professional Qualification System for Practicing Pharmacists", of which Article 31: Professional and technical personnel who obtain the professional qualifications of practicing pharmacists can be deemed to have the title of competent pharmacist or competent traditional Chinese medicine pharmacist, and can As a condition for applying for a higher-level professional title.

2) From the perspective of the pharmacist gap

The "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" National Drug Safety Plan confirms the development goal of significantly improving the service level of licensed pharmacists. By 2020, every 10,000 people will The number of licensed pharmacists exceeds 4. The main managers of all retail pharmacies are qualified as licensed pharmacists and have licensed pharmacists to guide the rational use of medications during business operations.

According to data from the Licensed Pharmacist Qualification Certification Center: as of the end of March 2019, the number of registered licensed pharmacists nationwide was 479,034. Currently, the average number of licensed pharmacists per 10,000 people is 3.4, registered in drug retail enterprises There are 429,202 practicing pharmacists.

In other words, based on the population of mainland China of 1.39008 billion (end-of-2017 data), the country needs 556,032 licensed pharmacists, which means that there is still a shortage of 100,000 licensed pharmacists in the national policy.

Coupled with the increasing state supervision of pharmacies in recent years, the investigation and punishment of "licensing" behavior, the release of the "Opinion Draft" on the pharmacy classification system and pharmacist reform means that more practitioners will be needed in the future. Pharmacists are licensed to work.

There is an obvious shortage in the pharmacist industry, and salary increases in the future are almost inevitable. Therefore, candidates do not need to worry too much about the salary prospects. What everyone needs to care about is whether the professionalism is satisfactory, whether the foundation is solid, and whether they can successfully pass the licensed pharmacist examination and obtain the certificate despite high difficulty and low passing rate.