The planners, brokers, analysts, and customs experts who decide how goods move around the world and make sure they arrive on time.
Top pay: highest pay, longest training
Supply Chain Director: Leads how a company buys, makes, stores, and delivers everything, often across many countries. Typical pay $170k.
Supply Chain Data Scientist: Builds math and AI models that predict demand, set inventory, and route shipments efficiently. Typical pay $115k.
Trade Compliance Manager: Makes sure a company's imports and exports follow customs laws, tariffs, sanctions, and export controls. Typical pay $120k.
Mid pay: solid pay, degree or apprenticeship
Logistician: Coordinates how products get from where they're made to where they're needed, as cheaply and quickly as possible. Typical pay $81k.
Freight Broker: Matches shippers who need loads moved with trucking companies, earning money on the difference. Typical pay $65k.
Licensed Customs Broker: Federally licensed expert who files paperwork to clear imported goods through US Customs. Typical pay $72k.
Transportation Manager: Manages how a company ships its goods: choosing carriers, negotiating rates, and keeping shipping on time and on budget. Typical pay $98k.
Freight Forwarder: Arranges international shipments end to end: booking ships or planes, trucks, customs, and paperwork. Typical pay $58k.
Purchasing Agent / Buyer: Buys the materials, parts, and supplies a company needs at the best price and quality. Typical pay $72k.
Supply Chain Analyst: Digs into supply chain data to find savings, delays, and risks. Typical pay $75k.
Demand Planner: Forecasts how much of each product customers will buy so the company makes and stocks the right amount. Typical pay $78k.
Project Cargo Logistics Manager: Plans the movement of giant, one-of-a-kind cargo like rocket stages, power plant turbines, and refinery towers. Typical pay $95k.
Humanitarian Logistics Coordinator: Gets food, water, medicine, and shelter to disaster zones and refugee camps quickly. Typical pay $65k.
Logistics Engineer: Designs efficient warehouses, delivery networks, and shipping processes using data and engineering. Typical pay $102k.
Cold Chain Logistics Specialist: Plans and tracks shipments of vaccines, medicines and fresh food that must stay at exact temperatures from factory to destination. Typical pay $70k.
Air Cargo Charter Broker: Finds and books whole cargo planes to fly urgent or huge shipments, like car parts for a stopped factory or rescue supplies. Typical pay $80k.
Starter: fastest way in
Cargo and Freight Agent: Arranges and tracks shipments at airports, rail terminals, and freight companies. Typical pay $50k.
Logistics Coordinator: Handles the day-to-day details of shipments: scheduling pickups, updating customers, and fixing problems. Typical pay $47k.
Carrier Sales Representative: Works at a freight brokerage finding and negotiating with truck drivers to haul loads. Typical pay $48k.
Expediter: Pushes urgent orders and shipments through so they arrive on time, especially when something is late. Typical pay $51k.
Freight Audit Specialist: Checks shipping bills for errors and overcharges, saving companies money. Typical pay $45k.
Drayage Dispatcher: Schedules trucks to pick up containers from ports and rail yards and track them to delivery. Typical pay $50k.
Flying Groom: Flies with racehorses and show horses on cargo planes, loading them and keeping them calm and healthy during the flight. Typical pay $45k.
Freight Claims Specialist: Investigates lost, stolen and damaged shipments and decides who pays: the trucking company, the shipper or insurance. Typical pay $50k.
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