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Brea, California

Pharmacist Centralized Services - Brea CA area

PharmacistIncludes weekendsNo nightsFull-Time

Listed compensation

$67.35-$78.2/hr

The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed

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Job Description

Responsible for providing prescription verification and pharmacy expertise in a Fulfillment Center to ensure patients receive the highest levels of quality and service. Performs pharmacist responsibilities independently and in partnership with pharmacist peers and the pharmacy staff to ensure consistent communication and execution.

Job Responsibilities

Performs fulfillment center pharmacist tasks including, but not limited to prescription verification and data review; takes necessary actions to ensure accuracy and appropriateness of medications.

Reviews, interprets and accurately dispenses prescribed medications within pharmacy workflow.

Supports the efficient workflow of the pharmacy and assists the pharmacy team in identifying ways to optimize pharmacy financials, inventory management and enhance processes that drive a safe, and quality output.

Maintains current knowledge of information technology associated with pharmacy systems including workflow, prescription fulfillment, clinical documentation, training, and inventory management, to provide support to pharmacy staff. Seeks new and better ways to further promote productivity and quality.

Responds to requests for information and/or policy interpretation from the pharmacy staff and leadership. Provides clear, effective feedback or coaching to pharmacy staff to ensure proper policy and process adherence, especially related to quality and accuracy.

Responsible for all questions, dialogues, and issues which relate directly to prescription fulfillment processes within the micro fulfillment center.

  • Follows guidelines and procedures for all job responsibilities to meet goals.
  • Adheres to company policies and procedures including all HIPAA guidelines/regulations.
  • Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local pharmacy laws.

About Walgreens

Founded in 1901, Walgreens has a storied heritage of caring for communities for generations, and proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and leading omni channel platforms. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for retail pharmacy and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.

External Basic Qualifications

  • BS in Pharmacy or PharmD and at least one (1) year of experience in a retail pharmacy environment.
  • Current Pharmacist license as granted by the appropriate state licensing authority.
  • Experience motivating team members to research and resolve issues.
  • Experience working with confidential information.
  • Willing to work non standard hours, which may include evenings, holidays and/or weekends.
  • Experience using time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates.
  • Experience developing ways of accomplishing goals with little or no supervision, depending on oneself to complete objectives and determining when escalation of issues is necessary.
  • Experience providing customer service to internal and external customers, including meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
  • Willing to travel up to/at least 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Preferred Qualifications

  • Willingness to obtain other state pharmacy licenses if needed.
  • Knowledge of insurance plans.
  • Knowledge of computer operating systems including Intercom, Promise, and Plus
  • Basic level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: opening a workbook, inserting a row, selecting font style and size, formatting cells as currency, using copy, paste and save functions, aligning text, selecting cells, renaming a worksheet, inserting a column, selecting a chart style, inserting a worksheet, setting margins, selecting page orientation, using spell check and/or printing worksheets).
  • Basic skill level in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: inserting, rearranging, hiding and deleting slides, navigating between slides, increasing list level, adding, centering and editing text, changing views, inserting a table or a note, moving objects, printing outline view and/or running a slide show).
  • Basic level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: opening a document, cutting, pasting and aligning text, selecting font type and size, changing margins and column width, sorting, inserting bullets, pictures and dates, using find and replace, undo, spell check, track changes, review pane and/or print functions).

We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Key Responsibilities

The pharmacist is responsible for performing prescription verification and data review within a fulfillment center to ensure accuracy and quality. They also support pharmacy workflow, provide coaching to staff, and maintain compliance with all federal and state pharmacy laws.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a BS in Pharmacy or PharmD and possess at least one year of experience in a retail pharmacy environment. A current pharmacist license granted by the appropriate state licensing authority is required.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)

Key Skills

Medication dispensingWorkflow optimizationHIPAA compliance

Pharmacist Career Context

Of the 40 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 13% are remote, 48% have no call, 53% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$151k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $137k 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
Work-life score5.1 / 10 · top 25% in pharmacyranked against 10,165 Pharmacy listingslisting-based score, 0–10
Listed pay$140k–$163kPharmacy median $180k (middle half $152k–$193k)36 comparable listings, Oct 2026
Cost-of-living adjusted pay~$137k in purchasing powerCalifornia index 110.7 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Pharmacy listings in California651 active10,237 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 13% remote · 48% no call · 53% 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 (10,165 Pharmacy listings), BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

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Salary Distribution

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

16 jobs · 13 employers
401k / retirement match
94%
Sign-on bonus
56%
Loan repayment
6%
CME allowance
6%
Relocation assistance
6%

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Work-life snapshot

median 2.8this job 5.1
Better work-life than 80% of Pharmacy listings

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

  • No nights
  • Includes weekends
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About Walgreens

Retail Pharmacies
Deerfield, IL
10,000+ employees

Benefits & Perks

Health Insurance
Benefits package (see Walgreens benefits site)

Living in Brea

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$1.02M
Typical market rent
$2,916/mo
Residents’ average commute
31 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.