Business Continuity Planners Career, Salary and Skills
Business Continuity Planners have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $83,050 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 1,087,090. Wage data is published for 443 locations.
Occupation description
Develop, maintain, or implement business continuity and disaster recovery strategies and solutions, including risk assessments, business impact analyses, strategy selection, and documentation of business continuity and disaster recovery procedures. Plan, conduct, and debrief regular mock-disaster exercises to test the adequacy of existing plans and strategies, updating procedures and plans regularly. Act as a coordinator for continuity efforts after a disruption event.
O*NET code
13-1199.04
Job zone
4
Typical education
Bachelor's Degree
Experience
Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years
National salary and employment
Median annual
$83,050
Hourly median
$39.93
Employment
1,087,090
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Critical Thinking | 4.12 | 4.62 |
| Complex Problem Solving | 4.12 | 4.88 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 4.12 | 4.25 |
| Active Listening | 4.12 | 4.12 |
| Writing | 4.00 | 4.38 |
| Speaking | 4.00 | 4.12 |
| Active Learning | 4.00 | 4.38 |
| Reading Comprehension | 4.00 | 4.25 |
| Systems Analysis | 4.00 | 4.25 |
| Systems Evaluation | 4.00 | 4.25 |
Typical tasks
- Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans.
- Develop disaster recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets, such as data centers.
- Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster.
- Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives.
- Maintain and update organization information technology applications and network systems blueprints.
- Review existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans.
- Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements.
- Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance.
Technology
- Actuate BIRT
- Adobe Acrobat
- Atlassian Confluence
- Atlassian JIRA
- Business continuity software
- CA Clarity PPM
- Computer operating systems
- COOP Systems myCOOP
- EMC RSA Archer Business Continuity Management
- Emergency notification system software
- Enterprise backup systems
- Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite
- Local area network LAN software
- Mentimeter
Business Continuity Planners salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Business Continuity Planners Salary in CAMedian $87,570 · Employment 155,000
- Business Continuity Planners Salary in TXMedian $80,820 · Employment 104,270
- Business Continuity Planners Salary in Washington, DCMedian $104,770 · Employment 76,600
- Business Continuity Planners Salary in GAMedian $78,410 · Employment 67,450
- Business Continuity Planners Salary in FLMedian $79,650 · Employment 66,230
- Business Continuity Planners Salary in WAMedian $100,360 · Employment 51,650
- Business Continuity Planners Salary in Los Angeles, CAMedian $82,750 · Employment 50,470
- Business Continuity Planners Salary in COMedian $92,520 · Employment 45,670
- Business Continuity Planners Salary in VAMedian $85,200 · Employment 45,160
- Business Continuity Planners Salary in Atlanta, GAMedian $80,020 · Employment 43,720
- Business Continuity Planners Salary in NCMedian $80,230 · Employment 41,180
- Business Continuity Planners Salary in MDMedian $101,500 · Employment 39,820
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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.