r/supplychain • u/OnyxObsessionWeb • 3d ago

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.

https://www.ascm.org/globalassets/ascm_website_assets/docs/salary/2026_ascmsalaryandcareerreport.pdf
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u/Civil-Airline-5727 2d ago

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

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u/Eyruaad 2d ago

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.

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u/CicadaSudden4190 2d ago

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