Pharmacy Technician Certification

Washington State holds 10,038 active credentials of this type — 1.8% of every active health care credential in the state. Here is what that number is made of, and how to check one.

What kind of credential this is

A Pharmacy Technician Certification is a Certification — a credential the state grants against a defined standard. It is what Washington uses where the work is real and regulated but typically carried out under someone else’s direction rather than independently.

That word is not a formality. Washington issues 145,796 active credentials in this form across the state, and it decides what the holder may do without someone else’s supervision. How a certification differs from the others.

When these credentials expire

Washington renews on the holder’s birthday, so these 10,038 expiry dates are spread right across the calendar rather than falling together. By year:

Continuing education

The Department records a continuing-education due date for 9,957 of these 10,038 credentials (99.2%). Where it is absent, that does not mean no hours are owed — it means this file does not carry the date.

How long these holders have been credentialled

The oldest Pharmacy Technician Certification credential still active in Washington was first issued in 1978. 2,101 of the 10,038 were issued in 2024 or later — 20.9% of the profession is that new.

The disciplinary flag

17 of the 10,038 active credentials of this type carry a disciplinary flag in the Department’s file — 0.2% — and 39 carry one marked pending.

This site publishes that count and no more: never who. The reason is not discretion, it is accuracy — the published file carries a yes/no flag and nothing else: no reason, no date, no case number. Naming someone on the strength of it would publish a suspicion rather than a fact. Every credential counted here is active. Why the line is drawn there.

Do not let the date pass

10,038 credentials of this type are active in Washington. Washington renews most of them on the holder’s birthday, every year or every two years, and continuing-education hours have to be done before that date — not after. Leave your details and we will tell you when yours is close, and pass your request for continuing-education hours to providers who teach for this credential.

We take no commission and we vouch for no training provider. We have no arrangement with any provider today — we are collecting these requests in order to go and find them. What we do with this.

Some of the 10,038 holders

Named as the Department of Health holds them, and limited to 140 rows — the full set is in the search, by number or by surname.

Narrower pages for this profession

• Pharmacy Technician Certification expiring in 2026 — 2,303
• Pharmacy Technician Certification expiring in 2027 — 2,383
• Pharmacy Technician Certification expiring in 2028 — 5,346
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2001 — 169
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2002 — 206
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2003 — 176
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2004 — 215
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2005 — 271
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2006 — 256
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2007 — 288
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2008 — 258
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2009 — 166
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2010 — 243
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2011 — 259
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2012 — 262
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2013 — 308
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2014 — 266
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2015 — 291
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2016 — 305
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2017 — 297
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2018 — 301
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2019 — 303
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2020 — 252
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2021 — 412
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2022 — 599
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2023 — 733
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2024 — 718
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2025 — 885
• Pharmacy Technician Certification first issued in 2026 — 498

Credentials of a similar size

• Emergency Medical Technician Certification 14,905
• Medical Assistant Phlebotomist Certification 14,526
• Mental Health Counselor License 12,609
• Counselor Agency Affiliated Registration 12,416
• Pharmacist License 11,304
• Massage Therapist License 10,993
• Pharmacy Assistant License 10,772
• Licensed Practical Nurse 9,895
• Social Worker Independent Clinical License 9,624
• Radiologic Technologist Certification 8,453
• Physical Therapist License 8,159
• Medical Assistant Registration 7,667
• Dentist License 7,055

Neighbours by size, not a ranking: this list slides with the profession you are on, so every one of the 98 pages is reachable from the others rather than only the largest few. All of them.