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BY SUSAN K. LACEFIELD, ASSOCIATE MANAGING EDITOR
Don’t quit
your day job
DCV’s latest survey shows that salaries
are up and job satisfaction is high.
Why would you want to work
anywhere else?
IT’S GOOD TO BE IN LOGISTICS. OR AT LEAST
that’s what the results of DC VELOCITY’S 2012 Salary
Survey suggest. Of the 602 readers who participated in
our survey, 86 percent said they were satisfied with
their career and would recommend it to someone
entering the workforce.
What’s behind the high level of job satisfaction?
Part of it is surely financial. According to the survey results, our reader’s average salary is
$106,311 and the median salary is $90,000. (For
a breakdown of average salary by position, see
Exhibit 1.) That’s up 6 percent from the average salary reported in last year’s survey.
Indeed, 65 percent of respondents reported
that their paychecks were fatter this year
than last, with an average increase of 7
percent.
While a six-figure salary is nothing to
turn up your nose at, those numbers
actually sound low to Susan Rider,
president of the Upton, Ky.-based
consulting firm Rider & Associates
LLC. For supervisor positions, she’s
seeing salaries that run $10,000
higher than the average reported
in our survey, and for more senior roles (director, vice president, president), she generally
sees salaries that are $50,000
to $75,000 higher.
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