Focus on getting your PEBC and the Ontario license first because that will take some time and money. Once in Ontario, you can then focus on your job search and move to where your job is.
Focus on getting your PEBC and the Ontario license first because that will take some time and money. Once in Ontario, you can then focus on your job search and move to where your job is.
Agree that is a big enough obstacle and then you need to secure a pharmacy where you can do your practicums. Once you get licensed contact all the pharmacy chains and explain that that you are willing to move anywhere in Canada as long as you can work at one store and work full-time. Rental housing may nof be easy to find so look into that. Would anticipate most jobs will be up North. You will 100% need a car if living and working out of a large city.
In which major Canadian cities are pharmacist salaries the highest? The lowest? I know that in all of Alberta, at least, the average pharmacist salary was $69,300 a year (as of 2005). I know that many American pharmacists get at least twice this, so I'm wondering how other Canadian big-city pharmacists compare.
Salaries are less in areas where there are a surplus of pharmacists. Places in southwestern Ontario have the largest surplus of pharmacists not just cities. If you want the largest salaries and the chances of a full-time job at one pharmacy move the furthest away from large cities in Canada. There isn’t a set salary for each city. Would look at job postings in all cities to see what current salaries are like. Cost of living also is a huge factor in how far a salary will go. Sad that due to such a surplus mostly due to uncontrolled immigration of foreign trained pharmacists community pharmacists now earn less than they did 20 years ago. 20 years ago starting salary was 80k with a signing bonus of 10k+ and with access to an extended benefit program. The job has also gotten harder while staff have become less knowledgeable and competent in many cases. The expansion of pharmacies chains and pharmacies into grocery stores and big box stores that started in the late 90s has slowed down dramatically due to oversaturation and many small independent pharmacies will be forced to shut down so the surplus is going to get worse although it had become much harder to immigrate as a pharmacist than it used to be.
