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APhA Immunization Certificate pay by state
Immunization certification is the training a pharmacy asks for before you give shots, and APhA runs the version this credential takes its name from. The vaccinating happens in retail and grocery pharmacy.
Median Healthcare Salarywith APhA Immunization Certificate
10%$60.00/hr
median$70.00/hr
90%$81.00/hr
Top Median Salary by Statewith APhA Immunization Certificate
- California$75.50/hr
- Wisconsin$73.00/hr
- Massachusetts$70.50/hr
- Texas$70.50/hr
- Florida$70.50/hr
Only the pharmacist's training defers to the state
ACPE accreditation attaches to the organization running a certificate program, so there's no list of approved courses to check a posting against. The federal rule names content, and for one role a floor: a pharmacist follows whatever immunization training their licensing state requires, and only where the state is silent does an ACPE-approved program of at least 20 hours stand in. Interns and technicians get no such deference.
Your questions about immunization certified jobs, answered
- Who is allowed to give the shot?
Federal law answers part of it and state law the rest. Under the PREP Act declaration a pharmacist may order and administer, and a pharmacy intern or pharmacy technician may administer under that pharmacist's supervision, each licensed or registered by their state board, with the pharmacist readily and immediately available where the person injecting is a technician. The declaration reaches the ACIP schedule for ages 3 to 18, seasonal influenza from age 19 when a technician or intern gives it, and FDA-authorized or licensed COVID-19 vaccines from age 3, and it preempts contrary state law for the influenza and COVID-19 vaccines through December 31, 2029. Everything the declaration doesn't reach is each state's own rules.
- Is the training certificate the whole requirement?
No. Under the same federal declaration a pharmacist, intern or technician administering covered vaccines holds a current certificate in basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation, which the declaration doesn't grade: a provider-level BLS card is one, and so is the layperson card. Interns and technicians also complete a practical training program approved by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education. Pharmacists have their own training and reporting duties in the same paragraph, so nobody in the pharmacy is covered by a certificate alone.
- Which roles carry it?
Pharmacists, interns and technicians. APhA runs one program for pharmacists and student pharmacists and a separate 6-hour one for technicians with Washington State University, split between self-study and a live seminar. State authority is tracked separately by NASPA, which keeps the current map of what pharmacists, interns and technicians may administer in each state, so the same certificate line means a different scope depending on the job and the state it sits in.
