Salary Overview. The BLS reported that the median annual salary for a pharmacist was $116,670 as of May 2012. The highest earning 10% made $145,910 or more, and the lowest earning 10% made $89,280 or less per year.Factors affecting salary include industry, location and experience level.n 2014, PayScale.com reported salary ranges for pharmacists based on years of experience. This source's findings were as follows: 1  Less than a year: $55,234-$119,945. 2  1-4 years: $52,034-$123,728. 3  5-9 years: $76,518-$129,643.
However even leaving out some death penalty costs, the death penalty ($1.7 million) would still likely have been the more expensive option than life in prison ($1.3 million) for a hypothetical guilty verdict for Kevin Harper.etitions? = $1,028,700+ MORE than a non-death penalty case. With the exception of a man convicted last year, the seven Washington inmates on death row now have been there an average of 14 years; add over another half million in prison costs not counting the extra expense of death row.
1 Financial costs to taxpayers of capital punishment is several times that of keeping someone in prison for life. 2  Most people don't realize that carrying out one death sentence costs 2-5 times more than keeping that same criminal in prison for the rest of his life. Yes, we want to make sure there is accountability for crime and an effective deterrent in place; however, the death penalty has a message of You killed one of us, so we'll kill you. 2  The state is actually using a murder to punish someone who committed a murder.