Occupation / job
Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
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
Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks pays $59,650 against $50,020 across all occupations — $802 a month more. Every premium is paid for something: find out whether it is the schooling, the licence, the hours or the risk before you decide you want it.
This is a large occupation: 390,160 people work as Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks. Large occupations hire continuously and replace continuously, and the pay reflects both facts.
These roles suit people who like solving a logistics puzzle that changes every hour, and who can stay calm while several people wait on the answer.
We carry no verified training length for Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
A quarter earn below $47,820 and a quarter above $75,000: a 1.6x ratio, $27,180 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.
At $47,820, or $22.99 an hour, the bottom quarter of this work lands within $2,200 of the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — an unusually solid floor.
Avoid it if you need to finish a task before starting the next; that is not how this desk works.
There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 390,160 people employed as Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.
What the spread tells you
A 1.6x ratio is the most common shape in this data: some room to move, none of it quick. Read $59,650 as where you might be after years in Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks, and $47,820 as where you would start.
The middle half of this field earns between $47,820 and $75,000. That is $27,180 of range, with $59,650 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Between $47,820 and $75,000 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $59,650. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $15,350; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $27,180.
From $59,650 it is $11,830 down to the bottom quarter and $15,350 up to the top. The upper half of the range is the longer one, which is the ordinary shape for work where experience compounds.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $28.67 at the midpoint for Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks, $22.99 at the 25th percentile and $36.05 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $59,650 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $59,650 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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