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ExCPT pay by state
ExCPT is the pharmacy technician certification exam from the National Healthcareer Association. The jobs behind it are ordinary pharmacy technician jobs, in retail and in hospitals, and the certification is national while the right to work is the state's.
Median Healthcare Salarywith ExCPT
10%$16.50/hr
median$18.55/hr
90%$27.24/hr
Top Median Salary by Statewith ExCPT
- Hawaii$23.00/hr
- Arizona$22.15/hr
- Massachusetts$22.00/hr
- Florida$22.00/hr
- Minnesota$22.00/hr
One of NHA's 8 exams, and where the others surface
The National Healthcareer Association runs 8 accredited certification exams and the ExCPT is its pharmacy one; the same body also certifies medical assistants, phlebotomy technicians and EKG technicians. Of those three only the EKG certification has a list of its own here. The other two answer the same query their role's page answers, so they don't get pages of their own here and stay filters on that one.
Your questions about ExCPT jobs, answered
- Who can sit the ExCPT?
NHA takes a high school diploma or its equivalent, or being within 60 days of finishing one, and then either a training program or 1,200 supervised hours of pharmacy-related work inside any one year of the past 3. Our CPhT guide names the qualifying programs, and one of them is an employer's own, which is the branch to check before you rule yourself out.
- Can I add PTCB's specialty credentials with an ExCPT?
Not without PTCB certification first. PTCB says plainly that it doesn't transfer credentials from other organizations, so its CSPT and its assessment-based certificates start with sitting the PTCE under one of PTCB's own routes. For someone already working in a pharmacy that's an exam to book, since the experience route asks 500 hours.
- Which exam will my state board take?
Check the board's own approved list before booking either one. Texas, for instance, writes the requirement without naming anybody: its rule asks for a pharmacy technician certification examination approved by the board and a current certification certificate, or, for technicians in counties of 50,000 people or fewer, an exemption granted on petition and good only at the pharmacy named in it (22 TAC 297.3(c)(1)(B) and 297.7(c)). The approved list is where PTCB's and NHA's exams appear or don't, and it's the board's to change.
