Overview
The Pharmacy Workforce Center (PWC), a nonprofit corporation comprised of multiple national pharmacy professional organizations, financed the Pharmacy Aggregate Demand Index (ADI) and the Pharmacist Demand Indicator (PDI). The ADI (which began in 1999) and the PDI (which was transitioned from the ADI in 2016) collected and disseminated data on the demand for pharmacists in the United States utilizing a panel of pharmacist employers. In January 2019, the PDI was temporarily suspended due to inconsistency in the number of panelists participating in the survey, leading to the inability to report results on a state level.
The PDR was developed by the PWC in 2020 to provide a measurement of pharmacist demand in the United States. This information is intended to be utilized by the pharmacy profession and other stakeholders to assess and follow the trends for various career opportunities for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians on an individual state, region, and metropolitan area level.
- Pharmacy Demand Report Overview – Describes the background and offers insights into the PDR.
- Pharmacy Demand Report Occupation Definitions – The Emsi-Burning Glass generated definitions for the occupations described in the PDR.
Reports:
Pharmacy Demand Report Revisions
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2023: In Fall 2023, the software that the PWC uses to generate the PDR changed from the Emsi-Burning Glass Labor Insight tool to the Lightcast (formerly Emsi-Burning Glass) Developer tool. With a more robust system, the Lightcast Developer will deliver more accurate quarterly job posting data. To account for this change in data sourcing, the PWC has updated the job posting numbers for 2022 and 2023 for more accurate comparisons.
2021: A change has been implemented in the generation of the pharmacist data contained in the PDR. When the PDR was initiated in 2020, all pharmacist postings were generated with a filter requiring “Pharmacist License” to be included. During a review of the 2021 PDR, it was discovered that the Pharmacist License filter did not include many pharmacist postings in a variety of categories where the need for a pharmacist license is assumed (e.g., Retail Pharmacist, Hospital Pharmacist). The decision was made to rerun all the available PDR data without the Pharmacist License filter. All the PDR data is updated and should more accurately reflect the number of postings across all pharmacist categories.
Please direct any inquiries regarding the PDR to Tom Maggio, PWC Secretary/Treasurer.
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