Will AI replace Pharmacy Technicians?
AI reaches a large part of this job’s work.
42/100
High exposure
More exposed to AI than 69% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 7% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 61% of the work
What the job involves
Prepare medications under the direction of a pharmacist. May measure, mix, count out, label, and record amounts and dosages of medications according to prescription orders.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Already happening(1)
- Answer telephones, responding to questions or requests.
Within reach(12)
- Receive written prescription or refill requests and verify that information is complete and accurate.
- Establish or maintain patient profiles, including lists of medications taken by individual patients.
- Assist customers by answering simple questions, locating items, or referring them to the pharmacist for medication information.
- Enter prescription information into computer databases.
- Order, label, and count stock of medications, chemicals, or supplies and enter inventory data into computer.
and 7 more
Out of reach(8)
- Maintain proper storage and security conditions for drugs.
- Receive and store incoming supplies, verify quantities against invoices, check for outdated medications in current inventory, and inform supervisors of stock needs and shortages.
- Clean and help maintain equipment or work areas and sterilize glassware, according to prescribed methods.
- Mix pharmaceutical preparations, according to written prescriptions.
- Prepack bulk medicines, fill bottles with prescribed medications, and type and affix labels.
and 3 more
Also called
Pharmacy Technician (Pharm Tech) · Pharm Tech · Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) · CPhT · Pharmacist Technician · Pharmacy Laboratory Technician · Accredited Pharmacy Technician · Chemotherapy Pharmacy Technician (Chemo Pharmacy Technician)
Related jobs
- Medical Assistants15/100
- Pharmacists36/100
- Pharmacy Aides20/100
- Phlebotomists11/100
- Veterinary Technologists and Technicians14/100
What these numbers mean
The score is the share of this job’s work, weighted by how important and frequent each task is, that AI could do in half the time: tasks an AI model could do alone count in full, tasks that need software built on AI count half.
“AI already used” is the share of the work in tasks where people are recorded using AI today. “As AI tools mature” counts every task AI could halve, with or without extra software.
The percentile compares the score with every job’s, weighted by how many people in the US do each one. Exposure means AI could change how the work is done, not that the job goes away. These are estimates for the typical job, not predictions.
Sources
- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
- GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs (task labels), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin & Rock (2023), OpenAI and University of Pennsylvania
- Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (task penetration), Anthropic
- Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (national and metropolitan areas), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics