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Logistics Analysts — Career Decision Dashboard

United States

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Median annual wage

$82,320

United States, 2025

Employment

251,040

United States, 2025

Typical education

Bachelor's Degree

Job Zone 4

Skills identified

35

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Career overview

Analyze product delivery or supply chain processes to identify or recommend changes. May manage route activity including invoicing, electronic bills, and shipment tracing.

O*NET code
13-1081.02
Job zone
4
Experience required
Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years

Typical tasks

  • Remotely monitor the flow of vehicles or inventory, using Web-based logistics information systems to track vehicles or containers.
  • Contact potential vendors to determine material availability.
  • Communicate with or monitor service providers, such as ocean carriers, air freight forwarders, global consolidators, customs brokers, or trucking companies.
  • Track product flow from origin to final delivery.
  • Interpret data on logistics elements, such as availability, maintainability, reliability, supply chain management, strategic sourcing or distribution, supplier management, or transportation.
  • Recommend improvements to existing or planned logistics processes.
  • Apply analytic methods or tools to understand, predict, or control logistics operations or processes.
  • Prepare reports on logistics performance measures.

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Salary analysis — United States

$50,890
10th
$64,440
25th
$82,320
Median
$106,190
75th
$133,160
90th

10th percentile

$50,890

25th percentile

$64,440

75th percentile

$106,190

90th percentile

$133,160

Most important skills

  • Reading Comprehension4.0
  • Critical Thinking4.0
  • Complex Problem Solving3.9
  • Active Listening3.9
  • Speaking3.8
  • Systems Analysis3.8
  • Monitoring3.8
  • Systems Evaluation3.8
  • Judgment and Decision Making3.6
  • Writing3.4
  • Time Management3.3
  • Active Learning3.1

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Skills listed are those O*NET rates at importance 3.0 or above for this occupation. Set your own level on the same 0–7 O*NET scale.

Skill coverage

0%

0 of 17 identified skills

Matched

0

Missing

17

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Skills to develop

SkillImportanceRequired levelYour levelGap
Critical Thinking4.04.1Not selected4.1
Reading Comprehension4.04.0Not selected4.0
Complex Problem Solving3.94.0Not selected4.0
Active Listening3.94.0Not selected4.0
Systems Analysis3.84.0Not selected4.0
Monitoring3.84.0Not selected4.0
Systems Evaluation3.83.9Not selected3.9
Judgment and Decision Making3.64.0Not selected4.0
Writing3.44.0Not selected4.0
Speaking3.83.4Not selected3.4
Active Learning3.13.8Not selected3.8
Mathematics3.03.8Not selected3.8
Time Management3.33.4Not selected3.4
Coordination3.03.1Not selected3.1
Social Perceptiveness3.03.0Not selected3.0
Management of Personnel Resources3.02.9Not selected2.9
Service Orientation3.02.9Not selected2.9

Ordered by required level gap multiplied by O*NET importance. No prediction or recommendation is implied.

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How salary varies by location

LocationMedianEmploymentYear
Lexington Park, MD$131,6001,3502025
Huntsville, AL$117,0602,7802025
San Jose, CA$115,5703,4402025
Seattle, WA$108,9204,4202025
Oxnard, CA$108,3401,0302025
WA$107,2505,6702025
Dayton, OH$105,0601,4602025
DC$104,7701,3502025
Washington, DC$104,3308,0202025
Santa Cruz, CA$104,3201102025
Colorado Springs, CO$103,4806402025
Bremerton, WA$102,9204202025
MD$102,7006,8402025
Baltimore, MD$102,7003,2302025
Urban Honolulu, HI$101,7505402025
Boston, MA$101,5404,5102025
Albuquerque, NM$101,2704202025
San Francisco, CA$101,0404,5702025
Columbus, IN$100,7202802025
Davenport, IA$100,7107702025
All locations with published data

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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0.

Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, 2025 (May 2025 release).

Figures are periodic published survey snapshots, not real-time market rates.