Transport and logistics
What does a Logistics Planner do?
Getting people and goods where they need to be, on time and in one piece.
What the day is like
- Indoors, under a roof.
- A screen and a keyboard.
- Right or wrong, to a standard.
The facts
- Pay
- $82,320 a year, median
- Logisticians, May 2025
- Usually needs
- Bachelor's degree
- A year or two, often while earning something.
- Jobs
- +18% projected change in jobs, 2025-2035 projections
- Demand looks growing fast
What people find hard about it
- Firefighting other people’s delays
- Spreadsheets
- Being blamed for the weather
Growing fast, and often reachable from warehouse or transport experience.
Will machines take this job?
What machines will do to this work. Routing and scheduling are heavily automated; responsibility for a vehicle, a load and a schedule stays with a person.
How to find out whether it suits you
Map one real supply chain end to end and find where it breaks.
Would this actually suit you?
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