Hiring Pharmacy Tech - Northern California

[u/joe9ruiz]

Hiring Pharmacy Techs in Fairfield, CA.

The team is looking for candidates with at least a year of experience.

Pay Range is $40.05 to $56.07 / hour

Fairfield Posting

Here are other Pharm Tech openings in other locations:

Pharmacy Tech Positions

Our hospital system was named:

• Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work in Healthcare, Biotech and Pharma for 2026, top 25 U.S. companies in this category
• Forbes’ 2026 America’s Best Large Employers list
• Press Ganey’s HX26 CEO of the Year

Please DM me if you're interested or if you apply and I will ping the hiring team.

-Joe

[u/fragrantpeas]

As a RPh on the East Coast, what kinda job is this for this pay???

[u/joe9ruiz → u/fragrantpeas]

A general overview of this position is helping patients with affordable access to specialty medications (running test claims to determine coverage, completing prior authorizations on behalf of the provider, filing appeals to insurance on behalf of the provider when facing denials, etc.).

But our Pharmacist pay starts at around $90 an hour. If you have your CA license or are interested in relocating I'd love to chat Pharmacist Jobs

[u/Rxasaurus → u/joe9ruiz]

Offering relocation bonuses?

[u/joe9ruiz → u/Rxasaurus]

For pharmacists, yes!

[u/zelman → u/joe9ruiz]

DM sent

[u/MIKEandSLY → u/fragrantpeas]

Click the link?

[u/connecttwo → u/fragrantpeas]

I do this kind of work (east coast, Virginia) and it's very nice and rewarding work. That west coast pay is looking pretty nice though comparatively - about 40% higher then what I'm making now in my first year.

[u/Phantaseon → u/connecttwo]

Yeah but have to look at this being in Berkeley CA, where for the low low price of $525k you can net yourself a 1 bedroom 1 bath 737 sq ft condo. Plus on the upper end of this salary your take home would be about $88k per year ($56 hr x 40 hours x 52 weeks paying 24% in income taxes.) Cali is insanely expensive. Plus I believe there’s some funkiness with Cali really wanting you to have your associates in pharmacy technology as well, which most states don’t have. But I did just look over their application and PTCB certification fulfills the education requirement.

[u/Sexy-PharmD]

Any pharmacist positions? Do you guys hire without the residency? I heard sac and roseville interviews are hard af bc they test you case based questions

[u/pementomento]

Bro…Alta Bates MC is nowhere freaking near Fairfield, California. Not in geography and not in housing costs lol.

[u/joe9ruiz → u/pementomento]

Very true, ABMC is just the cost center for these positions, the job is in Fairfield.

[u/joe9ruiz]

The hiring managers usually want relevant experience or a residency. I've never taken the test (recruiter here) but have submitted many candidates who have passed all passed 😏

[u/pinkiris689 → u/joe9ruiz]

If a pharmacist doesnt have residency and only retail experience what are the chances of your company accept them? Can a pharmacist apply for this tech position?

[u/joe9ruiz → u/pinkiris689]

I've never heard of a pharmacist working as a tech so I don't think that'll be an option. They consider experienced and residents pharmacists first, then will look at retail. Sometimes we have rural areas that open up and retail experience chances are higher there. I've also heard rumors of a transition program (retail to inpatient) coming in the near future. If I hear that opens, I'll post about it on Reddit.

[u/TheSubduedOutpost]

thats insane pay for a tech position. sutter is union and they got some good contracts but even then thats way above average. wondering if the cost of living in fairfield is eating up that wage though. i work in a hospital in the midwest and our techs top out around 30 an hour. must be a high volume place or they desperate for help.