Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($38,570) to the 90th ($84,810). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

With 385,000 jobs nationally, Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks make up 0.25% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: California alone holds 53,600 of those jobs, the top three states hold 32.5%, and the deepest concentration sits in New York (location quotient 1.70, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $46,240 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($84,810) is 2.2 times the 10th percentile ($38,570), a gap of $46,240 a year. The mean of $60,420 sitting above the median of $57,770 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts California first at 53,600 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Wyoming would lead at $66,580. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks stands number 94 by employment and number 446 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Office and Administrative Support Occupations, the group median wage is $47,850 across 54 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 21% more than its group median, and it supplies 2.1% of the group's 18,218,060 jobs. In 23 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $57,770, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 34,030 jobs, 8.8% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 383 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $39,850 a year, against $77,170 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks paycheck, gross, is $2,222 every two weeks on an annual $57,770, which is $4,814 a month and $1,111 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($46,600) to the 75th ($71,480) is worth $24,880 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $63,547 would sit between the median ($57,770) and the 75th percentile ($71,480), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $46,600, is $11,170 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Office and Administrative Support Occupations

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers, Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks, Receptionists and Information Clerks, Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks, Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.