Logisticians
Business and Financial Operations · SOC 13-1081
AI exposure from the Anthropic Economic Index (2025); salary from BLS; skills from O*NET. See /sources.
Decision card
Career Evidence Passport
SOC 13-1081 evidence across exposure, wages, projections, postings, certified LCAs, skills, and transitions.
- SOC exposure
- 15.7%
- High · Anthropic AEI
- Automation friction
- 45/100
- Moderate friction; broad SOC seed ORS job-requirements coverage.
- Wages
- $82,320
- H-1B offered wage $90,757; LCAs are filings.
- Projected openings
- 17,900
- BLS EP 2024–2034; employment change +16.7%.
- Observed/proxy demand
- 2,763
- FY2025 certified LCAs; 32,396 postings in 2025.
Skill evidence
- H-1B values are certified Labor Condition Applications, not visa approvals.
- Job postings are seed-static / seed-derived; treat as provider-ready proxy coverage until observed provider data is wired in.
- Transition matches are directional skill-overlap context, not placement guarantees.
- This release is a FutureGrid broad-SOC seed derived from public BLS ORS requirement concepts and categories, not direct occupation-level ORS survey estimates. It describes job requirements, not worker ability, AI capability, or displacement probability. Automation friction is a FutureGrid derived score and should be read alongside exposure, demand, wage, and projection signals.
Best transitions from here
Explore all pathways→Lower AI-exposure roles that reuse your skills, ranked by a transition score (skills that transfer, safety gain, pay and retraining effort).
AI Exposure Analysis
Across AI measures
Multiple exposure lenses for this occupation.
AI could do ~52.8% of this role but only ~15.7% is currently done with AI — a large capability-vs-adoption gap.
Top Skills
H-1B Visa Sponsorship Demand
View full H-1B trends →Certified H-1B Labor Condition Applications naming this occupation, FY2016–FY2025. A descriptive high-skill labor-demand signal — employer filings, not visa approvals or individual outcomes. Note: one LCA can cover multiple worker positions.
O*NET occupation profile
What this work involves
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.
Common titles: Client Services Administrator, Logistician, Production Planner, Supply Management Specialist
Representative Tasks
- •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.
Detailed Work Activities
- •Develop business relationships.
- •Collect data about customer needs.
- •Gather customer or product information to determine customer needs.
- •Supervise employees.
- •Allocate physical resources within organizations.
Tools & Technologies
Related Occupations
Employment Projections & AI Exposure
Employment & Wage Trend
BLS OEWS, 2019–2025
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS). See /sources.
Sector Comparison
| Metric | This Career | Sector Average |
|---|---|---|
| AI Exposure | 15.7% | 29.0% |
| Outlook | Average | 48% Bright |
| Median Salary | $82,320 | N/A |
| AI Resiliency | 84/100 | N/A |