- Depending on state law, pharmacy technicians receive prescriptions and enter them into a database, collect insurance information for billing, label prescription bottles, process payments and prepare prescriptions through a pharmacist's direction.
- There are a variety of locations a pharmacy technician may work: hospitals, retail stores, clinics and mail-order distributors.
- Pharmacy technicians may either be trained on-the-job, or go to a college or vocational program. A college program may offer an associate degree; vocational programs usually offer a certificate of completion.
- Some states and employers are requiring national certification for pharmacy technicians. The Pharmacy Technician Certification Board and the Institute for the Certification of Pharmacy Technicians are two organizations that provide certification examinations.
- According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the job market for pharmacy technicians is expected to increase much faster than average through 2016.
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