What the nine federal occupations behind supply chain work pay, from BLS wage data for May 2025. BLS counts pay by occupation, not job title, so this site’s thirteen careers sit inside these nine: three of the occupations hold more than one career. Each occupation page shows the median, the full spread from the 10th to the 90th percentile, pay by state and metro, and the growth BLS projects over 2025-35. Four more pages give the pay for job titles that share an occupation, such as supply chain analyst and warehouse manager.
BLS publishes no separate wage for supply chain managers. They are counted inside transportation, storage and distribution managers, and every figure here is for that whole occupation.
10th to 90th percentile $65,120 to $194,900. BLS OEWS, May 2025; growth 2025-35.
Career guides: supply chain manager, warehouse manager, transportation manager
Logisticians include logistics analysts, the O*NET group that lists supply chain analyst among its job titles. BLS publishes one wage for the whole occupation.
10th to 90th percentile $50,890 to $133,160. BLS OEWS, May 2025; growth 2025-35.
Career guides: logistician, supply chain analyst
Purchasing managers include procurement and sourcing managers.
10th to 90th percentile $92,490 to $223,280. BLS OEWS, May 2025; growth 2025-35.
Career guide: purchasing manager
Buyers and purchasing agents is a broad occupation, and BLS publishes wages only at that level, covering farm-product buyers, wholesale and retail buyers, and purchasing agents together.
10th to 90th percentile $48,380 to $128,870. BLS OEWS, May 2025; growth 2025-35.
Career guide: procurement specialist
Operations research analysts build the models behind routing, scheduling and inventory decisions. The occupation spans every industry, not only supply chain work.
10th to 90th percentile $57,060 to $159,910. BLS OEWS, May 2025; growth 2025-35.
Career guide: operations research analyst
Industrial production managers run manufacturing plants and production lines. BLS publishes one wage for the whole occupation.
10th to 90th percentile $78,000 to $205,520. BLS OEWS, May 2025; growth 2025-35.
Career guide: industrial production manager
Cargo and freight agents include freight brokers, freight forwarders and logistics coordinators, all titles O*NET lists in the occupation. BLS publishes one wage for all of them, and it counts employees only, not self-employed brokers.
10th to 90th percentile $38,340 to $79,810. BLS OEWS, May 2025; growth 2025-35.
Career guides: freight broker, freight forwarder
Production, planning, and expediting clerks include production planners, materials planners, schedulers and inventory control specialists. BLS publishes one wage for the whole occupation.
10th to 90th percentile $40,080 to $86,000. BLS OEWS, May 2025; growth 2025-35.
Career guide: production planner
BLS publishes no separate wage for customs brokers. They are counted inside compliance officers, an occupation that spans government, finance and healthcare, so figures for the whole occupation describe far more than customs work.
10th to 90th percentile $48,220 to $133,720. BLS OEWS, May 2025; growth 2025-35.
Career guide: customs broker
Some job titles share an occupation with another page above, so BLS publishes no wage for the title alone. Each of these pages leads with the occupation’s median in the industry the title works in.
Pay from logisticians
Logisticians in management of companies and enterprises: a median of $94,170 across 29,300 jobs.
Pay from transportation, storage and distribution managers
Transportation, storage and distribution managers in warehousing and storage: a median of $99,330 across 21,430 jobs.
Pay from transportation, storage and distribution managers
Transportation, storage and distribution managers in truck transportation: a median of $98,800 across 17,860 jobs.
Pay from cargo and freight agents
Cargo and freight agents in freight transportation arrangement: a median of $54,730 across 53,390 jobs.
Supply chain work splits into planning and moving goods, which BLS counts under logisticians and under transportation, storage and distribution managers; buying them, under purchasing managers and under buyers and purchasing agents; and making them, under industrial production managers. Arranging freight falls under cargo and freight agents, scheduling production under production, planning, and expediting clerks, and clearing customs under compliance officers, the broad occupation customs brokers are counted in. Operations research analysts are the quantitative route, working across supply chains and well beyond. Each page in this section reads the wage for one of those occupations and says exactly which workers the figure covers.
For what each job involves and how to get into it, see supply chain careers.