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BY DC VELOCITY STAFF
Nice work
if you can get it
DCV’s readers say their work is varied and
satisfying. And with the average salary
comfortably in the six figures, it’s rewarding too.
JOB SATISFACTION IN THE UNITED STATES REPORTEDLY HIT A
20-year low last year, but the word apparently hasn’t reached the logistics
professionals who read DC VELOCITY. Nearly nine out of 10 respondents to
our latest career and salary survey say they love their work and wouldn’t
hesitate to recommend the logistics profession to someone entering the job
market.
And the money’s not bad either. The average salary of the 1,138 readers
who completed our online questionnaire in February was comfortably in the
six figures—$100,502, to be precise. And it appears that the recession-era wage
freezes are starting to thaw. Nearly 60 percent of the survey respondents indicated their compensation had risen in the past 12 months, while just 11 percent reported a drop.
WHO EARNS WHAT?
So what determines how much a particular logistics professional earns? As it
turns out, a host of factors come into play—everything from age and experience to gender, company size, and region of the country. But as our surveys
have consistently shown from year to year, one factor trumps them all: job title.
As for the correlation between pay and job title, generally speaking, the high-
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