Pharmacy Technicians
Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ metropolitan area. Estimated employment 280.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of pharmacy technicians in Lake Havasu City earn more.
$45,890 in Lake Havasu City buys what $48,800 buys across the country as a whole.
Lake Havasu City's regional price parity is 94.1 — below the national average, so a dollar here goes further than the nominal figure suggests. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
The same job, elsewhere in Arizona
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Lake Havasu City |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flagstaff | $48,800 | $48,600 | 100.3 | −0.3% |
| Phoenix | $47,760 | $46,200 | 103.3 | −5.2% |
| Tucson | $47,310 | $48,800 | 96.9 | +0.1% |
| Prescott Valley | $47,000 | $47,800 | 98.3 | −1.9% |
| Sierra Vista | $45,990 | $51,500 | 89.2 | +5.7% |
| Lake Havasu City This page | $45,890 | $48,800 | 94.1 | — |
| Yuma | $45,050 | $48,600 | 92.7 | −0.4% |
Price parity and difference against Lake Havasu City are in the full table on wider screens.
Nominal against real
The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.
Published pay rose 25.4% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 5.6% — pay has outrun prices since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Price parity
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
- Inflation
- Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
- Employment
- 280 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 29-2052, Pharmacy Technicians. Mapped to our taxonomy as pharmacy-technicians.
Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.