Pharmacy Aides
Record drugs delivered to the pharmacy, store incoming merchandise, and inform the supervisor of stock needs. May operate cash register and accept prescriptions for filling.
39,530 people do this job in the US. $37,680 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 47%
- 0%
- 53%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 13%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 45%. Today's estimate: 46%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 17 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Receive, store, and inventory pharmaceutical supplies or medications, check for out-of-date medications, and notify pharmacist when inventory levels are low.Done daily by most who do it. | 12% | 38 min13 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Prepare, maintain, and record records of inventories, receipts, purchases, or deliveries, using a variety of computer screen formats.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 11% | 25 min8 min to 1.3 h | 97%Half by now | |
| Unpack, sort, count, and label incoming merchandise, including items requiring special handling or refrigeration.Done daily by most who do it. | 9% | 29 min13 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Perform clerical tasks, such as filing, compiling and maintaining prescription records, or composing letters.Done daily by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 9% | 25 min8 min to 1.3 h | 97%Half by now | |
| Process medical insurance claims, posting bill amounts and calculating copayments.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 9% | 13 min4 min to 29 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Compound, package, and label pharmaceutical products, under direction of pharmacist.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 7% | 21 min8 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Deliver medication to treatment areas, living units, residences, or clinics, using various means of transportation.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 6% | 29 min13 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Maintain and clean equipment, work areas, or shelves.Done daily by most who do it. | 6% | 17 min8 min to 38 min | Stays with people | |
| Restock storage areas, replenishing items on shelves.Done daily by most who do it. | 6% | 21 min8 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Accept prescriptions for filling, gathering and processing necessary information.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 4% | 8 min4 min to 21 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Answer telephone inquiries, referring callers to pharmacist when necessary.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 4% | 6 min3 min to 13 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Calculate anticipated drug usage for a prescribed period.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 4% | 10 min4 min to 25 min | 100%Half by now |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
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From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
Where this job works
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