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Pharmacy Assistants

SOC 31-9095

Assist pharmacists with filling prescriptions and managing inventory.

The job
Median pay
$38k
$35k to $44k typical range
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Declining
-0.7% projected
Openings a year
5k
BLS projection
Typical education
High school
Our model
AI displacement risk
Low
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
8/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
13th pct
More exposed than 13% of occupations · modeled estimate · 29th pct in Microsoft's data
Future-proof
48/100

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Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 51 states. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
California8,4400.51.8×$42k
Texas2,9000.20.8×$39k
New York2,3600.21.0×$38k
Washington1,9900.62.2×$45k
Florida1,5900.20.6×$35k
Georgia1,4100.31.1×$35k
Pennsylvania1,2100.20.8×$39k
Illinois1,1800.20.8×$37k
North Carolina1,1800.20.9×$36k
Tennessee1,1500.41.4×$30k
All 51 states
StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Iowa1,0700.72.7×$33k
New Jersey1,0200.20.9×$37k
Michigan8800.20.8×$36k
Arizona8100.31.0×$43k
Louisiana7300.41.5×$33k
Oklahoma7000.41.6×$30k
Ohio6900.10.5×$38k
Mississippi6600.62.2×$28k
Missouri6500.20.9×$38k
Indiana6100.20.8×$36k
Kentucky6000.31.2×$35k
Minnesota5500.20.7×$37k
Wisconsin5500.20.7×$37k
Virginia5100.10.5×$36k
Connecticut4900.31.1×$36k
Kansas4700.31.3×$32k
Alabama4600.20.9×$36k
Oregon4500.20.9×$40k
Maryland4200.20.6×$35k
Nevada4100.31.0×$39k
Nebraska4000.41.5×$32k
Colorado3700.10.5×$38k
South Carolina3600.20.6×$36k
Massachusetts3400.10.4×$37k
Utah2500.10.6×$52k
Montana2100.41.6×$37k
West Virginia2010.31.1×$32k~
New Mexico1800.20.8×$36k
Maine1500.20.9×$38k
South Dakota1500.31.3×$36k
Delaware1300.31.1×$39k
Rhode Island1280.31.0×$38k~
Arkansas1200.10.4×$37k
Washington DC1200.20.7×$60k
Hawaii1100.20.7×$46k
Idaho1100.10.5×$38k
North Dakota900.20.8×$43k~
Vermont900.31.2×$37k
Alaska690.20.8×$45k~
Wyoming600.20.8×$37k
New Hampshire500.10.3×$37k

Top metro areas

  1. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA4,010 jobs · $40k median
  2. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ2,050 jobs · $39k median
  3. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA1,270 jobs · $45k median
  4. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN1,070 jobs · $37k median
  5. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX760 jobs · $37k median
  6. Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ700 jobs · $43k median
  7. San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR700 jobs · $29k median
  8. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA690 jobs · $47k median

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Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2025-2035). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.