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Pharmacy Tech I - per diem

Part-time

Albany Medical Center

Multiple U.S. locationsPart-time / Per Diem$44–57K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$44–57K/yr
Location
Multiple U.S. locations
Schedule
Part-time / Per Diem
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Pharmacy Technician I assists pharmacists with medication distribution. The role includes ordering, stocking, and transporting medications, preparing medications under pharmacist supervision, and using medication packaging and dispensing machines and other technologies. Work schedules and activities are determined by pharmacists, Pharmacy Supervisors, and Directors.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Medication Distribution, nice to haveMedication Packaging and Dispensing Machines, nice to have

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Full job description

43 New Scotland Avenue Albany, NY 12208

Part time

71700

Department/Unit:

Pharmacy

Work Shift:

Per Diem (United States of America)

Salary Range:

$43,599.00 - $56,679.00

The Pharmacy technician assists and supports the pharmacists. Technicians order and stock medications, transport medications, prepare medications under the supervision of a pharmacists, participate in the coordination of medication distribution. The Technician utilizes medication packaging and dispensing machines and other technologies. The technician reports to pharmacists, Pharmacy Supervisors and Directors. Work schedule and activities are determined by pharmacists, Pharmacy Supervisors and Directors.

The Pharmacy technician assists and supports the pharmacists. Technicians order and stock medications, transport medications, prepare medications under the supervision of a pharmacists, participate in the coordination of medication distribution. The Technician utilizes medication packaging and dispensing machines and other technologies. The technician reports to pharmacists, Pharmacy Supervisors and Directors. Work schedule and activities are determined by pharmacists, Pharmacy Supervisors and Directors.

Thank you for your interest in Albany Med Health System!

Albany Med Health System is an equal opportunity employer.

This role may require access to information considered sensitive to Albany Med Health System, its patients, affiliates, and partners, including but not limited to HIPAA Protected Health Information and other information regulated by Federal and New York State statutes. Workforce members are expected to ensure that:

Access to information is based on a “need to know” and is the minimum necessary to properly perform assigned duties. Use or disclosure shall not exceed the minimum amount of information needed to accomplish an intended purpose. Reasonable efforts, consistent with Albany Med Health System policies and standards, shall be made to ensure that information is adequately protected from unauthorized access and modification.

Albany Medical Center is the centerpiece of medicine, research, and medical education in New York’s CapitalRegion and is the area's largest private employer with more than 10,000 employees.

Albany Medical Center offers excellent career opportunities in a wide range of roles in both patient care andadministration. We value all our staff members and offer outstanding employee benefits (https://www.albanymed.org/careers/albany-medical-center-careers/employee-benefits-and-advantages/) including:

  • Excellent health care coverage with no copay at Albany Medical Center providers

  • A wide array of services and programs to support emotional, physical, and mental wellbeing

Anchored in the state’s historic capital city, Albany Medical Center offers a full range of inpatient and outpatient careand is home to the region’s largest hospital, only Level 1 adult and pediatric trauma centers, and only children’s hospital. Thedowntown campus also offers opportunities at Albany Medical College.

Albany Medical Center (https://www.albanymed.org/albany/) , along with Columbia Memorial Health (http://columbiamemorialhealth.org/) , Glens Falls Hospital (http://glensfallshospital.org/) , Saratoga Hospital (http://saratogahospital.org/) , and the Visiting Nurses (https://www.albanymed.org/visitingnurses/) , form the Albany Med Health System, serving more than three million people over 25 counties.

How this job compares

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

Pay
  • This posting$44–57K/yr
  • New York median$48–68K/yr23 salary ranges
  • US median$47–72K/yr216 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $50K, is 14% below the New York median midpoint ($58K) — in the middle half of Pharmacy Technician salary ranges in New York.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 714 open Pharmacy Technician jobs in New York and 13,319 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in New York
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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