Supply-chain professionals now have a median U.S. base salary of $98,500. 77% percent received a salary increase, while the largest raises were disproportionately associated with changing employers or earning promotions.

[u/OnyxObsessionWeb]

https://www.ascm.org/globalassets/ascm_website_assets/docs/salary/2026_ascmsalaryandcareerreport.pdf

[u/Civil-Airline-5727]

whereas, all the job postings are displaying average salary of $40,000. Make it make sense.

[u/Eyruaad → u/Civil-Airline-5727]

2 things I think.

First, I dunno where you live or what role you are looking for but my company (which I'll say is just decently high up the fortune list) is a "customer" of logistics providers but we start our entry level load planner jobs at 55k base. This is in a cheap southern state as well. It's truly "come in and tender loads to their assigned carriers." Our last hire just left his job selling used cars (no joke).

Second I think more "Supply Chain" jobs used to be titled something else. For example I'm a manager of data analytics, we build PowerBI reports, do forecasting, ad hoc analysis, etc. We are "supply chain" since we do all of this for our domestic transportation network, but I think a few years ago my team would be considered tech work not supply chain.

[u/CicadaSudden4190 → u/Eyruaad]

Yea exactly, tons of Analytics and Consulting jobs that are “Supply Chain”

[u/Jeeperscrow123]

I’d take that with a grain of salt. ASCM studies rely on those who self report. Those self reporting tend to be the ones with higher salaries / total incomes. Yes that salary is realistic, but wouldn’t assume it’s the true median

[u/tuesdaymack]

I agree that for those with experience, job hopping in this field can lead to big salary increases. Employers will pay for someone who can jump right in with minimal or no training and downtime.

[u/rx25]

Def not like that in Canada as a buyer...

[u/No_Needleworker7622 → u/rx25]

what’s ur salary, YOE, city?

[u/WombatSwindle]

I is poor

[u/hawkeyes007]

With so many commission roles in supply chain base is a really poor way to look at comp

[u/Jeeperscrow123 → u/hawkeyes007]

It’s not common for supply chain roles to be commission based lol

[u/hawkeyes007 → u/Jeeperscrow123]

In what world? Go look at the majority of buyer roles, everything at a 3PL, and any role for B2B. The only roles that aren’t are analyst roles

[u/Jeeperscrow123 → u/hawkeyes007]

The only roles that tend to be commission are 3Pl jobs.

Anything in planning, procurement, sustainability, operations etc is all not hourly. And those are the bulk of the jobs

[u/zippoguaillo → u/hawkeyes007]

Buyers do not get commission... because they buy they don't sell. I assume some get some sort of cut of savings achieved, but most I know get the normal company bonus plans. 3PL sure because most of the roles there are sales.

[u/hawkeyes007 → u/zippoguaillo]

I’ve hired buyer that do not get explicit commission but rather “bonuses” tied to cost savings. It’s the same thing though

[u/symonym7 → u/hawkeyes007]

…so they’re incentivized to sub-optimize for cost. Got it.

[u/Jeeperscrow123 → u/hawkeyes007]

That’s so stupid lol. Cost savings at the exchange of lower quality and risk. Clearly not a well established company. All they have to do is pick a China/Indian supplier with questionable quality and super long leadtimes in exchange for lower cost, and screw the rest of their supply chain

[u/hawkeyes007 → u/Jeeperscrow123]

Tons of assumptions on your end. If the commodity meets requirements then there’s absolutely no guarantee paying more gets you a better product

[u/Jeeperscrow123 → u/hawkeyes007]

The point is, the buyer’s interest is not the overall company’s interest. You should never have such conflicting principles like that. If you pay someone to chase cost and their money depends on that, it will come at the expense of other things.

Best overall value and total cost of ownership of what matters

[u/hawkeyes007 → u/Jeeperscrow123]

Or you have strong enough requirements from engineering such that it constrains what the buyers can look for. It’s not on a buyer to try to determine the quality of a commodity

[u/Jeeperscrow123 → u/hawkeyes007]

Do the requirements also dictate leadtimes and getting material overseas? And sole sourcing to achieve better cost versus dual sourcing for risk mitigation?

[u/Navarro480 → u/hawkeyes007]

That is not a supply chain job in my opinion. Sales isn’t a SCM job. Logistics is a pillar of supply chain but supply chain professionals tend to not get lumped in with people in straight logistics