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Logisticians
Analyze and coordinate the ongoing logistical functions of a firm or organization. Responsible for the entire life cycle of a product, including acquisition, distribution, internal allocation, delivery, and final disposal of resources.
More resilient than most: more resilient than 60% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is high (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it very high), and US jobs are projected to change by +17.6% by 2035, much faster than average. The work leans on creative vision and emotional intelligence.
AI can help with many of the tasks, and demand is still growing. Being fluent with AI is the edge here.
- Median pay (2025)
- $82,320
- Job growth to 2035
- +17.6%
- Openings a year
- 26,600
- People doing it (2025)
- 255,000
- Usual route in
- Bachelor's degree
Where people already use AI for this work
- Advise others on business or operational matters
- Develop operational or technical procedures or standards
- Identify business or organizational opportunities
From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).
Work AI rarely helps with
- Analyze data to improve operations
- Maintain operational records
- Direct organizational operations, activities, or procedures
What the work looks like
- Maintain and develop positive business relationships with a customer's key personnel involved in, or directly relevant to, a logistics activity.
- Develop an understanding of customers' needs and take actions to ensure that such needs are met.
- Manage subcontractor activities, reviewing proposals, developing performance specifications, and serving as liaisons between subcontractors and organizations.
- Develop proposals that include documentation for estimates.
- Review logistics performance with customers against targets, benchmarks, and service agreements.
From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.
What the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects
- More of these jobs, as the growth of e-commerce makes logistics more dynamic and complex.
- More of these jobs, as an increasingly globalized economy will continue to make logistics more dynamic and complex.
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Also known as: Client Services Administrator, Logistician, Production Planner, Supply Management Specialist, Logistics Engineer, Reliability Engineer, Supportability Engineer, Systems Engineer.
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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.