UCLAri

Well, considering that real wages are likely to have remained fairly stagnant (controlling for inflation), I'll take the United States Bureau of Labor statistics over a VERY unrepresentative sample.

You only need calc 1 for most med schools. It doesn't mean that I'd call med school "easy." It sounds to me like your discounting pharmacy without actually knowing what's involved.

Plus, income is not always commensurate with education. An MBA can make far far more than anyone with "just" an engineering degree, despite the fact that the MBA is almost always less rigorous.

Truck drivers, on average, make above the national median, on average. Not bad for a career that doesn't require a college degree.

Define "equilibrium." It seems to me that pharmacists don't really make as much as you're saying. Furthermore, the market has already decided on an equilibrium, so you're just saying you want them to make less for no good reason.

futurenyustudent

A C in law school WON'T get you a job unless, of course, you're at HarvardYaleStanfordNYUColumbiaChicagoPennMichUVaDu ke. In which case you get dibs on any job you want.

UCLAri

Depends on the kind of "job" you want, but yeah.

For one, that comes down to a much higher supply of attorneys.

circumlocution2

I don't understand why you're so hyped up over the fact that pharmacists make more than engineers! What about professional sports where even some average athletes get paid millions? What about celebrities? How much schooling and intellect does it take to be a model?!
My mother is a pharmacist and she has to work insane hours (she's not in retail). Her job doesn't consist of counting pills.

And when did math become the only standard to measure the difficulty of a degree?

UCLAri

I'm more than willing to bet that an MD, which is not nearly as math intensive as, say, accounting, is probably a pretty hard degree relative to most other degrees.

lrnprcll

It amuses me how people get so worked up and angry on online forums.

chandonL

Polo
"I plan to finish my PharmD while double majoring in Econ and minoring in Economics. I want to work for the pharmaceutical industry after graduation and go to school part-time for a Master's in ChemE for two years. With a PharmD and MS ChemE, you will not be limited to only the pharmaceutical industry. At this point, I would want to work abroad for two years and apply for an MBA program at a top 5 business school."

Why would you want to work abroad? I think you have a great idea about getting a MS ChemE and a MBA, because it would indeed give you much more options, but which one would be more benifical to prosue? Im thinking an MBA, but.......

1of42

Umm... this thread hasn't been posted in in 5+ months. Why are you bumping it, exactly?

s2k

Since it's been "bumped" already, I might as well comment. My cousin right after graduation (like, 2 weeks after) was offered a job at CVS and she made close to 160k in her first year with LOTS of overtime. She didn't like retail but stuck with it in order to pay off her student loans.

She now works at a Hospital and although earns lower (I think somewhere around the 110K range), she's much MUCH happier.

Pharmacists earn so much because it's a doctorate degree (plus the amount of schooling and residency done).

kmzizzle

also its hard to move up to over say 175k

lkf725

Most people will never make even close to $175K, btw.

I don't really know why people are interested in others' salaries in a jealous/hostile way. It's not like salaries are related events. It's not like money is coming out of one pocket into another. If your CVS pharmacist makes $160K and gets a raise, it doesn't mean you will make any less in your chosen field. If people want to make a high salary, select an in-demand career with a high earning potential. I'm pretty sure people majoring in art history or archeology are not planning to make big bucks with a BA (not to slam those fields). To each his own. Sheesh.