Logistics Engineers Career, Salary and Skills
Logistics Engineers have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $82,320 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 251,040. Wage data is published for 401 locations.
Occupation description
Design or analyze operational solutions for projects such as transportation optimization, network modeling, process and methods analysis, cost containment, capacity enhancement, routing and shipment optimization, or information management.
O*NET code
13-1081.01
Job zone
4
Typical education
Bachelor's Degree
Experience
Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years
National salary and employment
Median annual
$82,320
Hourly median
$39.58
Employment
251,040
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Systems Analysis | 4.62 | 4.75 |
| Systems Evaluation | 4.12 | 4.62 |
| Complex Problem Solving | 4.12 | 4.00 |
| Writing | 4.12 | 4.12 |
| Mathematics | 4.00 | 4.12 |
| Active Learning | 4.00 | 4.12 |
| Reading Comprehension | 4.00 | 4.50 |
| Active Listening | 4.00 | 4.12 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 4.00 | 4.25 |
| Critical Thinking | 3.88 | 4.50 |
Typical tasks
- Analyze or interpret logistics data involving customer service, forecasting, procurement, manufacturing, inventory, transportation, or warehousing.
- Prepare logistic strategies or conceptual designs for production facilities.
- Conduct logistics studies or analyses, such as time studies, zero-base analyses, rate analyses, network analyses, flow-path analyses, or supply chain analyses.
- Develop logistic metrics, internal analysis tools, or key performance indicators for business units.
- Identify or develop business rules or standard operating procedures to streamline operating processes.
- Interview key staff or tour facilities to identify efficiency-improvement, cost-reduction, or service-delivery opportunities.
- Apply logistics modeling techniques to address issues, such as operational process improvement or facility design or layout.
- Identify cost-reduction or process-improvement logistic opportunities.
Technology
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- C++
- Computer aided design and drafting CADD software
- Failure modes and effects analysis FMEA software
- i2 Transportation Modeler
- IBM Cognos Impromptu
- IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio
- IBM Notes
- ITEM Software ITEM ToolKit
- ITEM Software Spare Cost
- JDA Manugistics
- JMS Software RCM WorkSaver
- Logistics Cost Estimating Tool
- Logistics management information LMI database software
Logistics Engineers salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Logistics Engineers Salary in CAMedian $92,890 · Employment 32,940
- Logistics Engineers Salary in TXMedian $75,480 · Employment 21,030
- Logistics Engineers Salary in FLMedian $76,410 · Employment 15,020
- Logistics Engineers Salary in ILMedian $80,100 · Employment 14,170
- Logistics Engineers Salary in GAMedian $77,570 · Employment 12,580
- Logistics Engineers Salary in Los Angeles, CAMedian $81,730 · Employment 10,950
- Logistics Engineers Salary in VAMedian $98,920 · Employment 10,540
- Logistics Engineers Salary in MIMedian $83,200 · Employment 10,270
- Logistics Engineers Salary in Chicago, ILMedian $79,900 · Employment 10,220
- Logistics Engineers Salary in PAMedian $79,340 · Employment 9,980
- Logistics Engineers Salary in OHMedian $83,460 · Employment 8,990
- Logistics Engineers Salary in New York, NYMedian $92,540 · Employment 8,860
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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, 2025 (bls.gov/oes). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.