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Duane Reade Pharmacy Technician

Duane Reade

Jersey City, NJJob$17–20.5/hrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 1w ago

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Compensation
$17–20.5/hr
Location
Jersey City, NJ
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Duane Reade is seeking a Pharmacy Technician to join its Pharmacy department. The role is responsible for verifying prescription information and supporting prescription preparation and pharmacy operations. Duties include handling medications, preparing labels, pricing and filing prescriptions, and referring prescription or health questions to a Pharmacist. The technician may also maintain patient profiles, assist with insurance claims and inventory, scan merchandise, and stock shelves.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Prescription Verification, nice to haveMedication Handling, nice to havePrescription Labeling, nice to havePrescription Pricing, nice to havePatient Profile Management, nice to haveInsurance Claims, nice to haveMedication Inventory, nice to haveRetail Register Operation, nice to haveMerchandise Stocking, nice to have

Full job description

Duane Reade is seeking a dynamic, flexible and motivated team player to join the Pharmacy department as a Pharmacy Technician. This position will be responsible for verification of prescription information within Duane Reade Pharmacies.

Essential Duties and Primary Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Verifies that the prescription information is complete and accurate.

  • Retrieves, counts, pours, weighs, measures and sometimes mixes medication.

  • Prepares the prescription labels, selects the type of container and affixes the prescription and other labels to the container.

  • Prices and files the prescription and insures that it is checked by a Pharmacist before it is given to the patient.

  • May establish and maintain patient profiles, prepare insurance claim forms and stocks and takes inventory of prescription medications.

  • Refers any questions regarding prescriptions, drug information or health matters to a Pharmacist.

  • Performs any other duties as assigned by the Pharmacist.

  • Scan merchandise on the register.

  • Stock merchandise on the shelves.

$17 - $20.5 / Hourly

How this job compares

Set against the 13,319 open Pharmacy Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$17–20.5/hr
  • New Jersey median$18–28/hr357 hourly ranges
  • US median$18–27/hr10,578 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $18.75/hr, is 18% below the New Jersey median midpoint ($23/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Pharmacy Technician hourly ranges in New Jersey.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 366 open Pharmacy Technician jobs in New Jersey and 13,319 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in New Jersey
Experience
Pharmacy Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median (2,628 postings).
Education
183 of the 13,319 open Pharmacy Technician jobs (1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Pay, requirements and demand for Pharmacy Technician jobs

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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