Key Summary
- Minimum salary increased to £55,650 per annum for all qualified pharmacists with over 10 years’ service
- Pharmacist store managers running small stores will get £57,200, medium stores (£60,000) and large stores (£65,000)
- Designated Prescribing Practitioners will get an honorarium of £300 for each Independent Prescriber learner supervised.
Boots has entered into an agreement with the PDA Union regarding this year’s pay claim for pharmacists, effective 1 November.
All eligible Pharmacists within the bargaining unit, those who are employed on 1 November 2025 and not in their notice period, will receive a 4 percent pay award.
Boots will increase the minimum salary to £55,650 per annum for all qualified pharmacists in the bargaining unit with over 10 years’ service.
Therefore, any eligible pharmacists who remain below this threshold after the above 4 percent increase has been applied will have a further increase to bring them up to this minimum, also effective 1 November 2025.
To incentivise Pharmacist Store Managers, all substantively appointed and rated-as-performing managers will receive a minimum annual salary per annum based on store size.
Those managing small stores will get £57,200, medium stores (£60,000), and large stores (£65,000).
Eligible Pharmacist Store Managers who remain below this threshold after the 4 percent increase will have a further increase to bring them up to this minimum, also effective 1 November 2025.
For Designated Prescribing Practitioners (DPPs), an honorarium of £300 non-consolidated payment will be paid for each Independent Prescriber (IP) learner supervised.
Eligible DPPs supervising IP Learners to become Independent Prescribers will be paid after the sign-off has been completed.
This is above the current honorarium paid for the supervision of our Trainee Pharmacists.
A unified pay scale will be introduced to encompass both Pharmacists and Independent Prescribing Pharmacists.
As part of this framework, a minimum salary of £46,240 per annum has been agreed for practicing Independent Prescribers.
Eligible Independent Prescribers who remain below this threshold after the 4 percent increase has been applied will have a further increase to bring them up to this minimum, also effective 1 November.
For Relief Pharmacists, Boots would create a set of principles around ‘reasonable travel’ to support consistency across the business.
