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Shriners Children's
Pasadena, California

Pharmacist - Per Diem

PharmacistPer Diem

Listed compensation

$65.92-$98.88/hr

The week · per this posting

Schedule not stated in this posting — no days, weekends, call or nights given.

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Posted 58m ago · Verified live

Job Description

Company Overview

Shriners Children’s is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. Named as the 2025 best mid-sized employer by Forbes, we are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact.

We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience define us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

With 20+ hospitals, outpatient clinics, ambulatory care centers and outreach locations across the globe, we provide excellent care to children up to age 18 regardless of their family’s ability to pay or insurance status. Please click here to learn more about our locations.

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Job Description

Job Description

To provide distributive, clinical, consultative, and research pharmaceutical services in a pediatric burn, orthopedic, and rehabilitation hospital; to function as a member of an interdisciplinary team.

Key Responsibilities

Ensures that the appropriate technique is used to prepare medications to be dispensed for patient administration

Accepts, verifies, and transmits written, verbal, telephone, or computer-entered prescription orders from prescribers.

Screens all prescriptions and drug orders for appropriateness (i. e.- drug, dosage form, dose, indication, route, and incompatibilities,).

Compounds or fills and dispenses medications in compliance with institutional standards, laws, and accepted standard of practice. When a technician or intern is involved in the process, independently calculates or evaluates the dose and checks the accuracy of contents of all ingredients (including syringes) and the final product.

Assists in the supervision and instruction of volunteers, technicians, intern pharmacists, and colleagues.

Participates in Quality Assurance and Pharmacy and Therapeutics related committees (i. e. Assists in drug utilization reviews, target drug programs, formulary revision, quality assurance, and development of guidelines and protocols for drug use.).

Maintains and documents services and records as required by law, including workload statistics, narcotic inventory and control, and nursing unit inspection records.

Required Qualifications

  • Pharmacy license in CA
  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) within 6 months

Preferred Qualifications

  • 3 Years (inpatient and outpatient)
  • 3 Years Pediatric Critical Care, Surgical or Orthopedic

The pay range for this position is $65.92 - 98.88/hour.

Compensation is determined based on years of relevant experience and departmental equity.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a valid California pharmacy license and obtain Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification within six months. Preferred qualifications include three years of experience in inpatient/outpatient settings and pediatric critical care, surgical, or orthopedic environments.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Medication dispensingClinical pharmacyPediatric careDrug utilization reviewFormulary managementPatient safetyInterdisciplinary collaborationPharmaceutical researchMedication compoundingPrescription screeningNarcotic inventory control

Pharmacist Career Context

Of the 40 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 20% are remote, 60% have no call, 55% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$171k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $155k in an average-cost state. 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

What does the Pharmacy market look like in California?
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed pay$137k–$206kPharmacy median $125k (middle half $125k–$125k)14 comparable listings, Oct 2026
Cost-of-living adjusted pay~$155k in purchasing powerCalifornia index 110.7 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Pharmacy listings in California651 active10,238 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 20% remote · 60% no call · 55% no weekends40 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedCalifornia Pharmacist listings: 8% state a sign-on bonus (median $10k) · 13% offer loan repayment675 active listings, Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Top contract/1099 Pharmacist Jobs

40 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution

26 jobs
6
<$165k
14
$165k-185k
1
$194k
3
$205k-225k
2
$225k+

Annual compensation range

Work-Life Balance Distribution

40 jobs · 31 employers
0
1-2
0
3-4
2
5-6
34
7-8
4
9-10

Higher = better work-life balance

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Infusion Clinical Pharmacist, OncologyPer Diem

Sutter Health · Santa Cruz, California

$87.25-$122.15/hr
#2

Clinical Pharmacist II - NBMC (Per Diem, Variable)Per Diem

NorthBay Health · Fairfield, California

$99.25-$120.69/hr
#3

Clinical Pharmacist II - VCVH (Per Diem, Variable)

$99.25-$120.69/hr
#4

Clinical Pharmacist Inpatient PRN

$62.89-$92.44/hr
+ 38 more · ranked by pay

Work-life snapshot

median 2.8this job 1.5
Better work-life than 10% of Pharmacy listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 10,165 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About Shriners Children's

Hospitals and Health Care
Montreal, Quebec
51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

Per Diem
Pediatric specialty care
Forbes 2025 best mid-sized employer

Living in Pasadena

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$1.30M
Typical market rent
$3,010/mo
Residents’ average commute
27 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
113.6
State income tax
Up to 13.3%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.