Cook County, Illinois / Cermak Health Services / Pharmacist
Job-title file
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
14 employees hold this title in Cermak Health Services. Median total compensation for the role is $36,405, above the department median of $6,510.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 14 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN area, the median wage for Pharmacists — about 8,930 people — is $140,880. Cermak Health Services pays a median base salary of $37,080 for this role, 74% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Pharmacists across every employer in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Cermak Health Services’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Pharmacists — about 321,970 people — is $140,910. Cermak Health Services’s median base salary is 74% below that national figure, below the 10th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 9 of 14 people in this role paid at least $25,000 in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Cermak Health Services is $36,405, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare departments
Pharmacist is held in 6 Cook County, Illinois departments. In Cermak Health Services, the median of $36,405 ranks #1 of 6.
Median total compensation for the Pharmacist role in other Cook County, Illinoisdepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 16 jurisdictions. In Cook County, Illinois, the median of $35,010 ranks #16 of 16. See Pharmacist across all of Cook County, Illinois →
Median total compensation for comparable Pharmacist roles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
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Record list
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At Cermak Health Services, Karen Xiong-Chan serves as a Pharmacist. Hired in 2009, they have about 9 years of service. Their 2018 pay totaled $38,371.
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Noella Mbah works as a Pharmacist for Cermak Health Services. They have served since 2015 (about 3 years). Noella earned $38,033 in 2018.
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Chung Ha works as a Pharmacist for Cermak Health Services. Hired in 2005, they have about 13 years of service. Chung earned $37,633 in 2018.
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At Cermak Health Services, Fahad Nazir serves as a Pharmacist. Hired in 2011, they have about 7 years of service. Their 2018 pay totaled $37,423.
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Uyen Tran is a Pharmacist at Cermak Health Services. They have served since 2003 (about 15 years). 2018 total compensation came to $37,080.
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Melvin George holds the role of Pharmacist at Cermak Health Services. They have served since 2017 (about a year). In 2018, their total compensation was $36,502.
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Alaina Tarantino holds the role of Pharmacist at Cermak Health Services. Hired in 2016, they have about 2 years of service. In 2018, their total compensation was $36,423.
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At Cermak Health Services, Jaruwan Supasanguan serves as a Pharmacist. Hired in 2010, they have about 8 years of service. Their 2018 pay totaled $36,387.
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At Cermak Health Services, Aekta Patel serves as a Pharmacist. They have served since 2009 (about 9 years). Their 2018 pay totaled $36,364.
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Melvin George holds the role of Pharmacist at Cermak Health Services. They have served since 2017 (under a year). In 2017, their total compensation was $9,946.
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Debra Willis is a Pharmacist at Cermak Health Services. They have served since 2015 (about 2 years). 2017 total compensation came to $2,483.
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Elana Nelson is a Pharmacist at Cermak Health Services. Their tenure dates to 2015, about 2 years. 2017 total compensation came to $2,471.
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Olufemi Ajala works as a Pharmacist for Cermak Health Services. They have served since 1998 (about 19 years). Olufemi earned $0 in 2017.
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At Cermak Health Services, Vitthalbhai Patel serves as a Pharmacist. Hired in 1996, they have about 21 years of service. Their 2017 pay totaled $0.