Pharmacist Salary Scales. Band/ Position Step 4-JULY-22 17 $118,982 M 16 $115,270 M 15 $112,807 M Advanced Clinician / 14 $108,457 M Advanced Practitioner / 13 $104,108 M Designated Positions 12 $99,420 M 11 $94,266 M 10 $90,534 M 9 $87,999 M Additional Progression Step 8 $85,992 APS Graduate to Experienced Clinicians 7 $83,030 A 6 $80,778 A 5 $77,705 A 4 $73,037 A 3 $68,371 A 2 $63,702 A 1* $59,035 A * Intern appointed to step 1, can’t progress to step 2 until completed internship Translation Pharmacists shall translate to the new scale based on their current salary step (i.e. step 7 in their previous DHB Collective Agreement translates to step 7 in the scale above) except that those paid on the separate Pharmacist Intern scale (including scale 11.2 in the previous DHB MECA) shall translate to step 1 above.