Pharmacies & drug stores

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Workforce

927k

2017 ACS Estimate

Average Employee Age

Estimated Job Growth

N/A%

10-Year Projection

Average Salary

$45,702

Average Male Salary

$58,032

Average Female Salary

$38,880

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Workforce

Diversity

Input/Output

Projections

About

The top three occupations in the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group are Health practitioner support technologists & technicians, Pharmacists, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, Cashiers, and Retail salespersons. On average, full-time employees in the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group work 41.6 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $57,501. Part-time employees in the same industry work 22.5 hours and earn an average annual salary of $19,356.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group are Briarwood, Fresh Meadows & Hillcrest PUMA, NY, Pflugerville, Manor Cities & Wells Branch PUMA, TX, and Carolina Municipio (Norte) PUMA, PR. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Pharmacies & drug stores.

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Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group. Health practitioner support technologists & technicians are the most common position, but the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Pharmacy aides, compared to other industries.

The highest average salary in Pharmacies & drug stores goes to Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers.

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Occupations by Share

927k

Workforce (ACS Estimate)

± 23.6k

-3.35%

1 Year Growth

± 3.69%

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group has been declining at a rate of -3.35%, , from 960k people in 2016 to 927k people in 2017.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Pharmacies & drug stores by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Health practitioner support technologists & technicians represent the largest share of positions held in Pharmacies & drug stores at 27.5%, followed by Pharmacists with 16.8% and Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers with 12.8%.

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Most Common

The most common occupations in the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group, by number of employees, are Health practitioner support technologists & technicians, Pharmacists, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, Cashiers, and Retail salespersons.

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Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Groups, Pharmacies & drug stores employs an unusually high number of Pharmacy aides, Pharmacists, and Health practitioner support technologists & technicians.

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Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Pharmacies & drug stores, by average wage, are Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers, Compliance officers, and Physicians & surgeons.

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Wages

Average Salary

$45,702

AVERAGE WAGE

± $1,366

On average, employees in the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group make $45,702 per year. This number makes Pharmacies & drug stores the 172 highest paying Industry Group in the United States out of a total of 266 Industry Groups.

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Wage by Location

HIGHEST PAYING PUBLIC USE MICRODATA AREA

HIGHEST PAYING PUMAS

This map shows which public use microdata areas (PUMAs) pay the highest average salary to employees in the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group.

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Wage Distribution

0.51

WAGE GINI

Pharmacies & drug stores has a wage GINI of 0.51, which is more than than the national average of 0.479. In other words, wages are distributed less evenly in Pharmacies & drug stores (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

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Opportunities

Spatial Concentration

Public Use Microdata Areas with RCA

This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group.

These are locations that employ more people in the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group.

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $58,032 and $38,880. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Gender Composition

597k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±18.9k

330k

MALE WORKFORCE

±14.1k

64.4% of workers in the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group are Female, making them the more common gender in the workforce. This chart shows the gender breakdown of the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group.

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Wage by Gender in Common Jobs

$58,032

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$2,827

$38,880

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$1,387

On average, Male workers in the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group make 1.49 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the gender-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group.

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Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY

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Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander

On average, Asian employees in the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group earn 1.3 times more than other races and ethnicities. This chart shows the race and ethnicity-based wage disparities in the 5 most common occupations in the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group.

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Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group. Based on estimates from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, this section indicates the amount of money spent by a specific industry in other industries. Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group is Construction.

In this visualization, click on a category to expand or collapse it. All of the industries listed to the left are those places from which the highlighted industry has made purchases. They are the intermediate inputs to the highlighted industry. All those industries listed on the right side are those industries that have made purchases from the highlighted industry. They are the use of outputs of the highlighted industry. The visualizations below offer alternative ways to see and understand this data.

Industrial Flow

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Intermediate Inputs

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Professional and business services Industry. This visualization does not include labor and capital costs.

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Use of Output by Other Industries

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

The Construction Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

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Projections

Growth projections of the Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group, both by number of employees and output, from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. The national workforce is projected to grow 8.13% in the next ten years. The Pharmacies & drug stores Industry Group has a lower projected workforce growth at N/A%. Its projected 10-year growth in output (N/A%) is lower than the projected national growth in output (24.6%).