Emerging role · No. 21 fastest-growing

Logisticians: job outlook 2025–35

BLS projects logisticians employment to grow 17.6% from 2025 to 2035 (No. 21 fastest), with 26,600 openings a year and a $82,320 median wage.

Data compiled 2026-10-09 · BLS 2025–35 · O*NET 31.0 · AEI May 2026

Projected growth, 2025–35

+17.6%

Typical entry education: Bachelor's degree.

BLS Employment Projections 2025–35

Job outlook

U.S. projections, BLS Employment Projections 2025–35

+17.6%

Projected employment change, 2025–35

From 255,100 jobs in 2025 to 300,000 in 2035. All occupations: +3.5%.

BLS Employment Projections 2025–35

26,600

Openings per year, 2025–35 average

Includes openings from growth and from workers who retire or change occupations.

BLS Employment Projections 2025–35

$82,320

Median annual wage, 2025

BLS Employment Projections 2025–35

Bachelor's degree

Typical education for entry

BLS Employment Projections 2025–35

What BLS expects to change

Demand change - share increases as the growth of e-commerce makes logistics more dynamic and complex.

BLS note on factors affecting logisticians employment, Table 1.12, BLS Employment Projections 2025–35.

Primary profiles: BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook · O*NET OnLine

Core tasks

Highest-importance task statements, O*NET 31.0 Database

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.

Most important skills

Importance on a 1–5 scale, O*NET 31.0 Database

Critical Thinking4.00
Active Listening3.88
Coordination3.88
Monitoring3.88
Reading Comprehension3.88
Speaking3.88

AI exposure

How much of the work large language models touch

46%

Moderate exposure (β, human-rated)

Share of the occupation's tasks an LLM could speed up by at least half at equal quality, with software-dependent tasks at half weight.

Eloundou et al., Science 2024

45.5%

Augmentation share of AI use

Share of global Claude.ai conversations on these tasks with a classified collaboration pattern (excluding unclassified conversations) where AI worked with the person rather than doing the task.

Anthropic Economic Index (May 2026)

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Live openings

Current listings in Metaintro's jobs index

Browse current logistics coordinator openings in Metaintro's jobs index.

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Sources & methodology

Every figure on this page comes from the public datasets below. We do not edit the source values; derived figures are explained here.

Emerging roles are the 30 occupations in the BLS fastest-growing occupations table (Table 1.3, 2025–35), ranked by projected percent change.
Growth, openings, wage, and entry education are the BLS figures as published; openings include growth plus replacement needs.
Tasks are O*NET 31.0 core task statements ranked by importance; skills are O*NET importance ratings (1–5).
Exposure is the human-annotator β score from Eloundou et al.: the share of an occupation's O*NET tasks that a large language model could do at least 50% faster at equal quality, counting tasks that need extra software (E2) at half weight. We label β under 0.25 low, 0.25–0.5 moderate, and 0.5 or more high; these bands are ours, not the authors'.
BLS occupations are matched to O*NET-SOC codes with the BLS O*NET-to-NEM crosswalk; where a BLS occupation spans several O*NET occupations, we average their values.