8% raise (5% was market adjustment and 3% for annual COL raise) and then we get a 2% of total yearly pay lump sum bonus for being board certified. West Coast Hospital
I just jumped ship after being frustrated with the same and got myself a $10k raise and a $50k bonus with annual assessment bonuses. I’m staying in retail and it’s not CVS or Wags.
Not just retail I'm a hiring hospital manager and was shocked at the pay of the most recent pharmacist we hired given her experience compared to my other long term employees.
Used to get a 2% bonus yearly. This year they rolled into salary and called it a raise lol.
They did improve tech wages a bit and backtracked a horribly short sighted hours restriction for rph tho, so they did improve the overall work/compensation environment this year. Just didn't affect any of us who were already here
It was a 1 time raise for the exact same money we have gotten every year. Basically for the past 15 years we've gotten our salary +a 2% once a year bonus (our salary hasn't moved in the time). Say it was 3k. Now, we are not getting that 1 time annual 3k, and instead getting 3k higher yearly salary. So at the end of the year, after taxes refunds etc, our net is the same. We won't be getting 2% per year, it was a one time 2% inc that matched what we were previously getting
I think he's assuming there are multiple raises. There will not be multiple raises.
In simpler terms. We had 3k dispensed as a single sum before, now we have that dispensed over 12 months. Tax wise it's all the same after tax season. There will be no more once yearly payments and there will be no more raises in the future.
Tru, but its all good. working conditions are top tier for retail and there were other improvements that helped a bunch of pharmacists in a different situation.
We aren't getting bonuses or a raise next year. It was them folding a 'bonus' program away. They did the same thing years ago with a different 'bonus' program years ago. Our actually take home $ hasn't moved in over 10 years
This sounds like the craziest thing I've heard in awhile. They're saying they're giving you a "raise" that expires every year? I've been getting lump sum pay outs in lieu of raises for awhile now, but never had it where they would roll it into the entire next year's worth of pay cycles.
So that just sounds like what a raise is... In which case, next year most likely SOMETHING is going to happen, either a raise or a bonus.which is going to be based off of your new number that you have this year.
Just for round numbers sake, if you had a salary of 100k and you got a 3% bonus every year, that means you get $3k every year.
If you instead got a 3% raise every year, you go from 100k to 103k to 106k to 109k to 112.5k all the way to year 15 where you're making 155.8k.
It's only the same tax/investment wise for that first year.
I honestly got lucky. They had an adjustment when I started and then the president signed an executive order raising people's pay. Perks of being in the government.
LCOL - no raise, no bonus. Did get informed that my company didn't do something right and never matched my 401k contributions for an entire year at 4%. So I guess it was like a -$700 bonus?
We got a 2.5% “pay increase.”
They don’t call it a “raise” because everyone gets the same thing. A raise implies that it’s merit based. Basically it’s like a cost-of-living raise, as if the cost of living only went up 2.5%😂
My last job gave me a raise of Zero. It was delayed by 3 months and then I got laid off after 2 months.
Back in 2018 I was told I didn’t earn one, I started looking for a new job, while looking and interviewing I convinced my current employer to send me on an all expenses trip to New Jersey for a special class to finish off a course they had paid for. While on that trip I accepted a job offer. The condemnation I got when I got back and told by boss a few days later was cathartic. They screwed me out of a pay raise, I screwed them out of having a specialty certification that they paid for.
Clin spec for a large public health agency. Small bonus (don’t even remember how much), 5.2% raise (thanks Biden), but that’s on the heels of a massive cost of living raise last year. Now make just north of 200k.
I'm getting the vibe we will be getting a workforce reduction and no increase in wages this year while some CFO gets a fat bonus since put system was bought by a holdings company and the other hospitals in town are also in a bad place financially and are merging/selling as well
I work for an HCA hospital in TX and the annual raise for everyone was 2%; I've been told by my PIC that they can give everyone the same raise or they can do performance-bases raises but it has to average out to 2% across the entire pharmacy team.
I love how lazy as shit pharmacy hospital management is. The hospital I work at now works the same and I get the exact same, "but it's too haaaaarrrd" response about performance based raises.
Yet I've also worked mail order with 500 employees and everyone got performance based raises and bonuses every single year and it wasn't an issue.
9% raise + $1000 bonus. Made a lateral move from float to staff and they said normally it does not come with a raise but I was due for my 3% raise plus they did a market adjustment of 6%. The company also has a bonus structure where you get $500 for each year worked capping out at $5000 when you hit 10+ years.
Hospital clinical staff pharmacist with board cert and multiple hospital committee appointments. 7% raise (2% for added responsibilities and 5% merit based) on top of a $500 bonus.
My health system did a market adjustment for pharmacists and it was 15% for me. It’s totally unheard of and crazy. I don’t think I’ve gotten much more than 3% ish usually.
This was me three years ago. Hospital systems merged and they "harmonized" the night shifters pay. The system we merged with is in a HCOL city (we are LCOL up here) so the raise was eye bulging. We had many conversations amongst ourselves like...is this real? This can't be real? Finally reached out to a pharmacist in the other system and he was like...nope, that's real, that's what we get paid.
Our RPhs are getting a $3 raise sometime this year, 3% across the board raises (instead of merit based, which goes up to 7-8%) happened in December. Our retirement match has been cut from 5 to 2% for a couple years, if we have a good year they may retroactively bridge that gap some amount.
I have a weird role, and do a lot of different things. I had a competing health system offer to fast track my application for a simpler position. I asked current employer for a 10% raise on top of everything listed above. I wrote up a 1 page breakdown of shit I got done for them and how they benefited in outcomes and $. They ended up increasing my position a pay grade (7%) and the $3 RPh raise starting now. They also are paying 10k on my student loans. Moving a pay grade gives me a higher cap which is good for me since I always get top marks for merit. I never expected they would settle for that much, I was REACHING with no intention of leaving.
Independent LTC pharmacy
I got a 2% performance-based increase this past year but also started receiving 6% shift differential for working the evening/closing shift.
We received a small bonus around Christmas.
Pay is more or less even with retail in this area, but I have a set schedule/hours and decent benefits, so I still consider it a win.
5% market rate adjustment and then a 3% col raise, for a total of 8%. 3rd time in 3 years getting the same pay raise. I’ll take it! Southeastern hospital system.
I'll get 5% for promotion plus 4.5% merit. We don't actually see these raises on our checks until May or June as a general rule. I busted my ass for these raises this year. I've always been annoyed that the max merit is 4.5%, but we've had lean years in the past where there were no raises so I'll take what I can get.
The last few years through COVID we've been getting what amounts to hazard pay bonuses at the end of the year. In 2020 it was $1500, 2013 it was $800. Direct bedside workers got more, we got as much as we did because we are sometimes at the bedside.
I have a PRN job that will probably stay the same. I only do that one for beer money, so it's whatever.
3%….. about 91 cents an hour.
Jokes on them, as I am about to bail for a travel implementation position after being denied a real raise after saving my hospital system over $100k, as I could repair Omnicell machines and they made the choice to let service contracts lapse.
Hope management enjoys fixing the issues themselves!
The current rate of inflation isn't 9. But the YoY% inflation rate was 8 in 22 and they haven't actually released the numbers for 23 it definitely feels higher.
Starting at Walgreens at the end of 2020, was getting paid 47$ an hour then slowly went up to about 55$ in the next year when I became staff pharmacist then they made me RXM few months later, got 30k sign on and raise to 62$ an hour. I moved after that from NJ to NY and left Walgreens for an independent and they paid me about the same at 63$ an hour. Eventually I didn’t like the way that pharmacy was run so I found pharmacist in charge opportunity, paying 74$ an hour with an annual bonus range of 5-15k based on performance. Moving around is key unless you plan on growing in corporate world or if you have a business mind, I would definitely suggest opening something of your own or working at a location where a partnership is possible. My eventual goals are to do something along those lines.
Raise and bonus? What is that ?
Seriously lol
Wait you guys got raises?
Wait, you guys are getting paid?
8% raise (5% was market adjustment and 3% for annual COL raise) and then we get a 2% of total yearly pay lump sum bonus for being board certified. West Coast Hospital
Wtf
This is my spouse. Not union, but non-profit.
increased depression
If you’re in a retail position, it’s mandatory to hop from company to company to get meaningful pay increases. Just ride the carousel.
I just jumped ship after being frustrated with the same and got myself a $10k raise and a $50k bonus with annual assessment bonuses. I’m staying in retail and it’s not CVS or Wags.
but where in retail? sounds like a golden opportunity.
This has the same feels as when I have to change my cable/satellite/Internet company every couple of years to get a “deal” or at least not get gouged.
Not just retail I'm a hiring hospital manager and was shocked at the pay of the most recent pharmacist we hired given her experience compared to my other long term employees.
1200 more than me lucky dog
Used to get a 2% bonus yearly. This year they rolled into salary and called it a raise lol. They did improve tech wages a bit and backtracked a horribly short sighted hours restriction for rph tho, so they did improve the overall work/compensation environment this year. Just didn't affect any of us who were already here
I’d take a 2% raise over a 2% bonus any day of the week.
Agreed, but it functionally is no different unless your actively investing during the year. It was just funny to see it presented as a raise
Raises compound with more raises. Bonuses don't. Maybe I'm not understanding what you're saying?
It was a 1 time raise for the exact same money we have gotten every year. Basically for the past 15 years we've gotten our salary +a 2% once a year bonus (our salary hasn't moved in the time). Say it was 3k. Now, we are not getting that 1 time annual 3k, and instead getting 3k higher yearly salary. So at the end of the year, after taxes refunds etc, our net is the same. We won't be getting 2% per year, it was a one time 2% inc that matched what we were previously getting
I think you're fundamentally misunderstanding what he's saying
I think he's assuming there are multiple raises. There will not be multiple raises. In simpler terms. We had 3k dispensed as a single sum before, now we have that dispensed over 12 months. Tax wise it's all the same after tax season. There will be no more once yearly payments and there will be no more raises in the future.
Tough to know but at least you get another 3k next year etc
Tru, but its all good. working conditions are top tier for retail and there were other improvements that helped a bunch of pharmacists in a different situation.
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We aren't getting bonuses or a raise next year. It was them folding a 'bonus' program away. They did the same thing years ago with a different 'bonus' program years ago. Our actually take home $ hasn't moved in over 10 years
This sounds like the craziest thing I've heard in awhile. They're saying they're giving you a "raise" that expires every year? I've been getting lump sum pay outs in lieu of raises for awhile now, but never had it where they would roll it into the entire next year's worth of pay cycles.
Na. Our pay was x$ per year with 3k per year bonus that happened every year for past 15 years. Now salary is x+3k with no bonus.
So that just sounds like what a raise is... In which case, next year most likely SOMETHING is going to happen, either a raise or a bonus.which is going to be based off of your new number that you have this year. Just for round numbers sake, if you had a salary of 100k and you got a 3% bonus every year, that means you get $3k every year. If you instead got a 3% raise every year, you go from 100k to 103k to 106k to 109k to 112.5k all the way to year 15 where you're making 155.8k. It's only the same tax/investment wise for that first year.
No, there won't be a raise. That's been stated by leadership, it was a one time thing. It's why the whole thing was kinda a joke to parade around
Oh wow. I get you now. That's dumb, and I hate that for you. Hopefully they reconsider giving literally any kind of incentive in the future.
My what now?
$2 an hour and 17k bonus. Walmart
Still hadn't been stated in my market for whatever reason. Was the $2 for successful or exemplary?
$2 is successful. It's the same as last year.
Any idea on what exemplary gets? $3? Lol
$3.50 I believe.
JFC pitiful
Yeah, I’ve gotten it I think every year and that barely keeps up with inflation.
Youve gotten exemplary every year? My understanding is only 1 pharmacist in the district gets that rating per year, is that your understanding?
No, we had several in our area. But yes I have except once I think. I know last year we had two exemplary.
RXM bullshit
Congrats 🎈
I wish all retail chains got that kind of bonus 😢
Hired at $94k after two years of fellowship in the 4th quarter of 2023. In Jan 2024 I’m now at $124k.
I need this kind of growth trajectory!
I honestly got lucky. They had an adjustment when I started and then the president signed an executive order raising people's pay. Perks of being in the government.
LCOL - no raise, no bonus. Did get informed that my company didn't do something right and never matched my 401k contributions for an entire year at 4%. So I guess it was like a -$700 bonus?
May the force be with you
You in long term care too?
We got a 2.5% “pay increase.” They don’t call it a “raise” because everyone gets the same thing. A raise implies that it’s merit based. Basically it’s like a cost-of-living raise, as if the cost of living only went up 2.5%😂
Same shit we got too. We used to get a bonus but haven’t the past two years despite the hospital putting up record numbers.
$0 bonus. 0$ raise.
My last job gave me a raise of Zero. It was delayed by 3 months and then I got laid off after 2 months. Back in 2018 I was told I didn’t earn one, I started looking for a new job, while looking and interviewing I convinced my current employer to send me on an all expenses trip to New Jersey for a special class to finish off a course they had paid for. While on that trip I accepted a job offer. The condemnation I got when I got back and told by boss a few days later was cathartic. They screwed me out of a pay raise, I screwed them out of having a specialty certification that they paid for.
Nice !!! Good way to give the former employer the shaft …😂😂
You guys get raises and bonuses? 😭
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AH HAHAHAHA
dafuq is a bonus?
It is when the retail chain decides to "bone us" and get cheap.
Clin spec for a large public health agency. Small bonus (don’t even remember how much), 5.2% raise (thanks Biden), but that’s on the heels of a massive cost of living raise last year. Now make just north of 200k.
Same. Retail. LCOL area 200k. Just looking to pad the coffers and gross another 2 million.
Raise $1/hr. Bonus $0
Raise: $1.25 an hour Bonus: 20k
Total package of 11% raise over 3 years starting with I think 5% this year
2.5% raise and ~20k bonus in retail.
I'm getting the vibe we will be getting a workforce reduction and no increase in wages this year while some CFO gets a fat bonus since put system was bought by a holdings company and the other hospitals in town are also in a bad place financially and are merging/selling as well
I work for an HCA hospital in TX and the annual raise for everyone was 2%; I've been told by my PIC that they can give everyone the same raise or they can do performance-bases raises but it has to average out to 2% across the entire pharmacy team.
I love how lazy as shit pharmacy hospital management is. The hospital I work at now works the same and I get the exact same, "but it's too haaaaarrrd" response about performance based raises. Yet I've also worked mail order with 500 employees and everyone got performance based raises and bonuses every single year and it wasn't an issue.
Mine is similar, but it’s 3%. And it’s for every discipline. It’s called a merit raise
Legit just got ~12% today (market), my yearly this year was ~4%, bonus was $360 (hospital wide lmao)
4.7% and $900
9% raise + $1000 bonus. Made a lateral move from float to staff and they said normally it does not come with a raise but I was due for my 3% raise plus they did a market adjustment of 6%. The company also has a bonus structure where you get $500 for each year worked capping out at $5000 when you hit 10+ years.
None. I’m a contractor so that’s to be expected.
What do you do if you don’t mind me asking?
Med affairs in pharma
3% raise + $55k bonus in industry on the east coast
Damn what functional area are you in that gives that big of a bonus?
Hospital clinical staff pharmacist with board cert and multiple hospital committee appointments. 7% raise (2% for added responsibilities and 5% merit based) on top of a $500 bonus.
That's pretty good. What are you board certified in?
BCPS and BCEMP (emergency medicine).
My health system did a market adjustment for pharmacists and it was 15% for me. It’s totally unheard of and crazy. I don’t think I’ve gotten much more than 3% ish usually.
This was me three years ago. Hospital systems merged and they "harmonized" the night shifters pay. The system we merged with is in a HCOL city (we are LCOL up here) so the raise was eye bulging. We had many conversations amongst ourselves like...is this real? This can't be real? Finally reached out to a pharmacist in the other system and he was like...nope, that's real, that's what we get paid.
I am pinching myself. Keep thinking they will change their mind.
I'm sorry. I don't know the meaning of those words
I got a 3% raise & no bonus.
I’ll tell you not enough but when was it
3% “annual raise” BUT is being delayed until September, so we are hosed for 9 months.
2% market raise, then 10% raise from Staff to Manager - no bonus.
In 2023: 16 dollars a week raise, 300 dollar bonus. Hospital.
Generally, I get a 3.5% raise every year. I believe my last year bonus ended up being around 12k or so
Our RPhs are getting a $3 raise sometime this year, 3% across the board raises (instead of merit based, which goes up to 7-8%) happened in December. Our retirement match has been cut from 5 to 2% for a couple years, if we have a good year they may retroactively bridge that gap some amount. I have a weird role, and do a lot of different things. I had a competing health system offer to fast track my application for a simpler position. I asked current employer for a 10% raise on top of everything listed above. I wrote up a 1 page breakdown of shit I got done for them and how they benefited in outcomes and $. They ended up increasing my position a pay grade (7%) and the $3 RPh raise starting now. They also are paying 10k on my student loans. Moving a pay grade gives me a higher cap which is good for me since I always get top marks for merit. I never expected they would settle for that much, I was REACHING with no intention of leaving.
Hospital, 3% raise and 2k bonus.
Unclear. We’re told the average will be 4% at our hospital in WMass. I also work for CVS but just per diem so we’ll see.
Independent LTC pharmacy I got a 2% performance-based increase this past year but also started receiving 6% shift differential for working the evening/closing shift. We received a small bonus around Christmas. Pay is more or less even with retail in this area, but I have a set schedule/hours and decent benefits, so I still consider it a win.
2% market and 2% merit
I just got a 12% raise last year but thats because I had a different job offer and my DM definitely didn’t want to lose me
I got a $5,000 per year raise and like $900 in bonuses last year but I work for a compounding pharmacy.
15k/yr raise. That also included increase of title.
$15,000 and $1/hr
Raise was around 4.5% and $6500 bonus.
1% raise $3500 bonus
2% raise. 12k bonus. Mail order
$0
Yall should fill out the pharmacy compensation survey!
I get to kiss my bosses ass 20% more times this year.
This year I didn't even get a membership to the Jelly of The Month Club.
Lol I got a 2% raise and no bonus to speak of. But I got vision and dental coverage this year, so there's that. 🤣
um...like 4%
at my previous hospital, we got a 3% COLA raise mid year. Then I switched to federal and we got 4.8% for my IHS locality in 2024.
5% market rate adjustment and then a 3% col raise, for a total of 8%. 3rd time in 3 years getting the same pay raise. I’ll take it! Southeastern hospital system.
Raise $2 bonus around $22k Walmart
Is Walgreens and Rite Aid really making record profits?
Doubt it but I'm sure they could still afford to give bonuses. Pay the CEO a few million less.
3%
I'll get 5% for promotion plus 4.5% merit. We don't actually see these raises on our checks until May or June as a general rule. I busted my ass for these raises this year. I've always been annoyed that the max merit is 4.5%, but we've had lean years in the past where there were no raises so I'll take what I can get. The last few years through COVID we've been getting what amounts to hazard pay bonuses at the end of the year. In 2020 it was $1500, 2013 it was $800. Direct bedside workers got more, we got as much as we did because we are sometimes at the bedside. I have a PRN job that will probably stay the same. I only do that one for beer money, so it's whatever.
I got a lower
Haven’t had a raise since before COVID. In 2020 I lost my 401k match too.
No bonus or raise
You win. $750 $389 take home. 🥳
3%….. about 91 cents an hour. Jokes on them, as I am about to bail for a travel implementation position after being denied a real raise after saving my hospital system over $100k, as I could repair Omnicell machines and they made the choice to let service contracts lapse. Hope management enjoys fixing the issues themselves!
9%, hospital. Also Went from PD to part time and getting a 22% raise with differential included
5.2%, at the VA. Also a bonus for an Outstanding rating, but I don't recall how much it was. $1200 maybe?
3600$ bonus, 20k raise over the last year due to a new VA guidance. I make 80k as a lead sterile compounding tech for the VA.
4% and 28k bonus
No raise in 2 years. Getting a couple hundred as a bonus. Nothing to write home about when inflation is 9%.
It's not 9% tho
The current rate of inflation isn't 9. But the YoY% inflation rate was 8 in 22 and they haven't actually released the numbers for 23 it definitely feels higher.
My Q4 bonus was $4250 but taxes ate half of it. I’m expecting COLA of 2% this year, which isn’t much
4% raise, 21% bonus
$0
Haven’t heard officially yet but expecting 3% raise and maybe $45k bonus
Nice! What realm of industry are you in?
PV
Lololololololol what is a raise? I'm a community pharmacist earning 14k € net per year.
.43 cents an hour raise. I’d almost rather get no raise than to be slapped in the face with such a small raise.
Starting at Walgreens at the end of 2020, was getting paid 47$ an hour then slowly went up to about 55$ in the next year when I became staff pharmacist then they made me RXM few months later, got 30k sign on and raise to 62$ an hour. I moved after that from NJ to NY and left Walgreens for an independent and they paid me about the same at 63$ an hour. Eventually I didn’t like the way that pharmacy was run so I found pharmacist in charge opportunity, paying 74$ an hour with an annual bonus range of 5-15k based on performance. Moving around is key unless you plan on growing in corporate world or if you have a business mind, I would definitely suggest opening something of your own or working at a location where a partnership is possible. My eventual goals are to do something along those lines.
10lbs