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PHARMACY PROFILE Top-Paying Jobs for Women Pharmacists, according to a recent Forbes.com article, top the list of the highest-paying jobs for women. Women pharmacists earn a median wage of $1,647 per week or about $86,000 a year. Women currently account for slightly less than half of all pharmacists in the United States and earn about 85 percent as much as their male colleagues, continued the report. It's a much smaller pay gap than that of medical doctors, however, where women make 59 percent as much as men. Women physicians and surgeons came in far behind pharmacists at No. 6 on the list, earning a median of $1,230 per week. In general, 60 percent of women in the United States were either seeking or had employment in 2008, the latest year for which statistics are available. This represents 46.5 percent of the U.S. labor force. More than one-third of these women worked in management, professional and related occupations, accounting for 51 percent of all workers in this top-paying sector. Women's earnings remain stalled at around 80 percent of men's. About 3.5 million women earn within the highest pay bracket, making a minimum of $1,500 per week, compared with almost 10 million men. This may be explained, continued the report, by the most common female-held positions: administrative assistants, nurses and grade school teachers. As a comparison, there are 36 times as many women administrative assistants as there are women pharmacists. 11/19/09 |