Faculty Articles
Pharmacists' Wages and Salaries: The Part-Time Versus Full-Time Dichotomy
ISBN or ISSN
1934-8150
Location
United States
Publication Title
Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy
Volume
12
Issue
2
Publication Date / Copyright Date
3-1-2016
First Page
341
Last Page
346
Publisher
Elsevier Inc.
DOI Number
10.1016/j.sapharm.2015.06.003
Abstract
Background: Recent years have seen significant growth in part-time work among pharmacy personnel. If preferences and outlooks of part-time and full-time workers differ, job-related incentives may not have the same effect on both groups; different management practices may be necessary to cope with rapidly evolving workforces.
Objective: To compare wage-and-salary responses to the number of hours worked, human-capital stock, and job-related preferences between full-time and part-time pharmacists. The analysis focused on the pharmacist workforce because, unlike other professions, remuneration is fairly linear with respect to the amount of time worked.
Methods: Data were collected from a self-reported survey of licensed pharmacists in southern Florida (U.S. State). The sample consisted of 979 full-time and 254 part-time respondents. Using ordinary least squares, a model estimated, separately for full-time and part-time pharmacists, annual wage-and-salary earnings as functions of average workweek, human-capital stock, and job-related preferences.
Results: Practitioners working less than 36 h/week were driven almost exclusively by pay, whereas practitioners working 36 h or more exhibited a more comprehensive approach to their work experience that included variables beyond monetary remuneration.
Conclusion: Managing part-time pharmacists calls for emphasis on wage-and-salary issues. Job-security and gender- and children-related concerns, such as flexibility, should be oriented toward full-time practitioners.
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences | Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Keywords
adult, aged, employment, family characteristics, female, Florida, humans, least-squares analysis, male, middle aged, models, statistical, personnel staffing and scheduling, pharmacists, salaries and fringe benefits, surveys and questionnaires
NSUWorks Citation
Carvajal, Manuel J. and Popovici, Ioana, "Pharmacists' Wages and Salaries: The Part-Time Versus Full-Time Dichotomy" (2016). Faculty Articles. 67.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hpd_corx_facarticles/67
