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Hiring difficulty · Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

Pharmacy Technicians hiring difficulty in Charlotte, NC

The public market difficulty score for Pharmacy Technicians in Charlotte, NC is 6.2 out of 10, in the elevated band. This occupation's share of jobs in Charlotte is close to its share of U.S. jobs. The location quotient is 0.96 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). The metro median of $46,220 a year is within 3 percent of the U.S. median of $45,750 and above the North Carolina median of $44,530 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). In North Carolina, the December 2025 job openings rate for all industries, statewide, was 4.0%, near the U.S. rate of 4.0% that same month. The statewide hiring pace was 40.1 days, longer than the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). OEWS counts 3,970 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Charlotte. The provider-registry extract was built from Oklahoma and Texas city queries and stops at those metros. On healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations, Charlotte sits at rank 32 in this set of 80 metros.

Public market difficulty score
6.2
Elevated

Average of three ranked components, shown to one decimal. How this score is built

Key numbers

Metro median pay
$46,220
North Carolina $44,530 · U.S. $45,750. BLS OEWS, May 2025, annual wage.
Local 75th percentile
$49,220
North Carolina $48,480 · U.S. $49,990. BLS OEWS, May 2025.
Statewide hiring pace
40.1 days
All industries, North Carolina, December 2025. U.S. pace 37.8 days that month. BLS JOLTS total nonfarm. Levels: 212 thousand openings and 161 thousand hires.
Statewide openings rate
4.0%
All industries, North Carolina, December 2025. U.S. rate 4.0% that month. BLS JOLTS total nonfarm. Statewide figure, for every industry in the state.
Healthcare workplaces in the metro (all provider types)
Not shown
No count for Charlotte. The CMS NPPES extract (retrieved September 28, 2026) was queried in Oklahoma and Texas cities only. Where a count is shown, it covers all provider types in the metro and is the same for every role.

JOLTS on this page is a statewide, all-industry figure. It is the same number for every role in North Carolina. It is a December 2025 print, matched to the U.S. total-nonfarm print for that month.

Annual pay

Metro employment 3,970 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). Location quotient 0.96. Metro area: Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC.

PercentileMetroNCU.S.
25th$37,780$37,480$37,850
Median$46,220$44,530$45,750
75th$49,220$48,480$49,990

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Unpublished cells stay blank here.

Score components

ComponentInputScoreReading
Local supply0.965.6Location quotient, BLS OEWS, May 2025. Lower quotient, higher component. Ranked among the 1,953 published pages.
Statewide openings rate4.0%5.1Total nonfarm, all industries, North Carolina, December 2025. Higher rate, higher component. Ranked among 51 states and DC.
Statewide hiring pace40.1 days7.8Openings ÷ hires × 365.25 ÷ 12, from 212 thousand openings and 161 thousand hires. Higher days, higher component.

Shown score 6.2 is the average, rounded half up to one decimal. Full method

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