Graduates earn a median $92,124 two years after finishing, more than 89% of master's majors. Measured across 111 US programmes by the Department of Education — real graduate pay, not survey answers.
Yes, on the money — this is one of the best-paying majors at this level in the country.
| # | University | 1 yr out | 2 yrs out | 3 yrs out | Graduates/yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ohio State University-Main Campus cost & debt at this university → | not published | $140,448 | not published | 20 |
| 2 | University of Georgia | not published | $122,038 | $117,307 | 16 |
| 3 | Western New England University cost & debt at this university → | $112,326 | $117,572 | not published | 1 |
| 4 | University of Southern California cost & debt at this university → | $107,222 | $100,849 | $103,847 | 103 |
| 5 | University of Maryland Baltimore cost & debt at this university → | $106,035 | $94,408 | $91,267 | 281 |
| 6 | Temple University cost & debt at this university → | $92,180 | $93,520 | $119,383 | 73 |
| 7 | Northeastern University Professional Programs | $93,339 | $92,124 | $97,859 | 302 |
| 8 | Northeastern University | $93,339 | $92,124 | $97,859 | 11 |
| 9 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | $89,155 | $78,343 | $70,156 | 36 |
| 10 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | not published | $76,460 | $90,846 | 43 |
| 11 | University of Florida cost & debt at this university → | $62,050 | $69,897 | $79,005 | 301 |
| 12 | Long Island University cost & debt at this university → | not published | $69,338 | not published | 56 |
It is the median of what real graduates of this exact major earned, taken from tax records two years after they completed. It is not a starting salary, not an average of job adverts, and not a projection. The median master's major in this dataset reports $54,713, so Pharmacy sits above the middle by $37,411.
Two years is early in a career. Fields with long training pipelines — medicine, law, research — look weaker at this point than they will at ten, while trades and applied technical fields peak sooner. Read a low figure in a long-pipeline subject as "slow start", not "bad degree".
There is no debt figure here on purpose. The Department of Education publishes earnings by field of study but not borrowing, so nobody can honestly tell you the debt of a specific major. Debt is published per institution — that is where our university cost pages carry it.
Whatever the subject pays, the money you do not borrow is the money you keep.
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Classified by the Department of Education as Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration (CIP 5120). Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard, field-of-study earnings (median earnings of graduates who received federal financial aid, measured 1–3 years after completion). Figures are per major and credential level, pooled across US programmes. Information only, not financial advice.