Occupation / job
Logisticians
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
$82,320 against a $50,020 national midpoint is 65% more, or $15.52 an hour. Almost nothing pays this much more without a long, expensive or restricted route in — read that route before reading the number again.
251,040 people work as Logisticians — large enough that the occupation is always hiring somewhere and always losing people somewhere else. Constant demand is security; it is rarely leverage.
Business operations work suits people who make a process legible to everyone who touches it — the deliverable is usually a decision someone else can now make quickly.
How long it takes to become one of the 251,040 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.
Who should not do this
A quarter earn below $64,440 and a quarter above $106,190: a 1.6x ratio, $41,750 between the ends. That is an ordinary working spread, which also means experience and location explain most of it and there is no shortcut through the middle.
Even the bottom quarter of Logisticians earns $64,440 — $30.98 an hour and $14,420 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Very little of this distribution is badly paid.
Avoid it if you need authority to match responsibility — much of this work is influencing people who do not report to you.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 251,040 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
At 1.6x between $64,440 and $106,190 this is a normally shaped occupation. $82,320 is what the middle of Logisticians earns after the years it takes to get there, which is not the same as what it offers you now.
Put in money rather than ratios: $64,440 at the 25th percentile, $82,320 at the midpoint, $106,190 at the 75th. $41,750 separates the quarter of Logisticians at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
Between $64,440 and $106,190 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $82,320. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $23,870; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $41,750.
From $82,320 it is $17,880 down to the bottom quarter and $23,870 up to the top. The upper half of the range is the longer one, which is the ordinary shape for work where experience compounds.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Logisticians is $39.57 an hour. The quarters sit at $30.98 and $51.05, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Logisticians for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $82,320 describes them.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $82,320 because we have no verified record of unpaid hours or out-of-pocket costs for this work, and we would rather convert honestly than adjust invented ones.
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