Duane Reade Pharmacy Technician
Rego Park, NYJob$18–21.5/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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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. The technician may also maintain patient profiles, prepare insurance claim forms, manage prescription medication inventory, scan merchandise at the register, and stock shelves. Prescription questions and health matters are referred to a Pharmacist.
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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:
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Verifies that the prescription information is complete and accurate.
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Retrieves, counts, pours, weighs, measures and sometimes mixes medication.
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Prepares the prescription labels, selects the type of container and affixes the prescription and other labels to the container.
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Prices and files the prescription and insures that it is checked by a Pharmacist before it is given to the patient.
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May establish and maintain patient profiles, prepare insurance claim forms and stocks and takes inventory of prescription medications.
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Refers any questions regarding prescriptions, drug information or health matters to a Pharmacist.
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Performs any other duties as assigned by the Pharmacist.
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Scan merchandise on the register.
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Stock merchandise on the shelves.
$18 - $21.5 / Hourly
How this job compares
Set against the 13,762 open Pharmacy Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$18–21.5/hr
- New York median$19–28/hr688 hourly ranges
- US median$18–27/hr10,926 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $19.75/hr, is 14% below the New York median midpoint ($23/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Pharmacy Technician hourly ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 731 open Pharmacy Technician jobs in New York and 13,762 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- CVS Health237 open
- Walgreens218 open
- Walmart58 open
- Experience
- Pharmacy Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median (2,635 postings).
- Education
- 188 of the 13,762 open Pharmacy Technician jobs (1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 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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