Logisticians
What the pay figures show
- Two answers for logisticians. Best paid: Washington, at $107,250. Tax does not change that. Best off: New Mexico, at $82,516 once local prices count. Tax was not what separated them. Rent was.
- Washington's $107,250 median for logisticians survives the tax adjustment intact, so state income tax is not a differentiator in this occupation's geography. It does not survive price deflation: New Mexico takes the top position at $82,516. Housing is where regional price variation concentrates, which is why the reordering appears at this step and not the previous one.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$82,320
People doing it
251,040
Highest paid
$107,250
WA
Best off, really
$82,516
NM, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$50,890
Highest tenth
$133,160
Lowest, really
$57,886
OR
States with data
51
National average
$89,730
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
90.39%
NM, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Nationally, this job pays within a fairly narrow band. Adjust for tax and for local prices and the band tightens again, to between $57,886 and $82,516. Geography is not the main lever on pay here.
- 251,040 people do this job across the country, and the middle one earns $82,320. Common work, though not one of the giants.
- Coverage is complete — all 51 jurisdictions publish this, on a middle wage of $82,320. Nothing is missing.
- Wages for logisticians cluster comparatively tightly across states, and the clustering strengthens after tax and price deflation — a real range of $57,886 to $82,516. Occupation-level factors such as specialisation and employer type therefore explain more of an individual's pay here than location does.
- National employment in logisticians is 251,040 — a substantial occupation, though an order of magnitude below the largest. Regional differentials here move real aggregate sums without dominating any single state's wage bill.
- Coverage for logisticians is complete at 51 jurisdictions. No suppression applies, so the highest and lowest figures above are genuinely the national extremes.
Pay band: Logisticians
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $50,890 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $82,320 |
| Top tenth earn over | $133,160 |
| This salary | $82,320 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Logisticians
The national median for this job
$82,320around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $50,890 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $82,320 |
| Top tenth | $133,160 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Logisticians, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Nebraska · $65,370 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Washington · $107,250 |
| Spread | $41,880 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $75,480 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $77,674 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| NM | $98,430 | $74,583 | $82,516 |
| AL | $98,450 | $73,974 | $82,220 |
| WA | $107,250 | $84,280 | $77,633 |
| WY | $85,550 | $69,014 | $75,967 |
| OK | $86,600 | $66,357 | $75,161 |
| SD | $80,020 | $65,124 | $73,925 |
| MD | $102,700 | $76,489 | $73,572 |
| VA | $98,920 | $73,493 | $72,947 |
| CO | $96,090 | $72,910 | $71,916 |
| DE | $96,090 | $71,318 | $71,855 |
| OH | $83,460 | $65,965 | $71,848 |
| AR | $78,400 | $61,542 | $71,140 |
| IA | $78,740 | $61,843 | $69,669 |
| MT | $81,270 | $62,773 | $69,559 |
| DC | $104,770 | $76,599 | $69,130 |
| MA | $100,360 | $74,735 | $69,047 |
| AK | $87,280 | $70,231 | $69,047 |
| MI | $83,200 | $64,076 | $68,033 |
| LA | $75,230 | $59,884 | $67,784 |
| ND | $72,800 | $59,884 | $67,611 |
| HI | $100,340 | $73,237 | $67,431 |
| MS | $75,160 | $58,791 | $67,349 |
| UT | $83,300 | $63,725 | $67,077 |
| SC | $80,330 | $62,332 | $66,896 |
| NC | $80,780 | $62,944 | $66,863 |
| NV | $79,600 | $64,829 | $66,847 |
| MO | $78,350 | $61,204 | $66,699 |
| VT | $83,560 | $64,210 | $66,446 |
| IN | $77,670 | $61,209 | $66,399 |
| NJ | $92,280 | $70,061 | $64,345 |
| PA | $79,340 | $62,210 | $63,805 |
| TN | $71,280 | $58,975 | $63,747 |
| TX | $75,480 | $61,930 | $63,731 |
| MN | $82,320 | $62,668 | $63,676 |
| WV | $71,590 | $56,804 | $63,276 |
| ID | $73,920 | $57,768 | $63,187 |
| CT | $85,450 | $64,994 | $62,682 |
| NH | $81,270 | $66,003 | $62,655 |
| GA | $77,570 | $60,129 | $62,181 |
| IL | $80,100 | $61,360 | $62,071 |
| NY | $88,240 | $66,739 | $62,010 |
| CA | $92,890 | $69,631 | $61,850 |
| WI | $73,180 | $57,422 | $61,680 |
| ME | $77,780 | $59,618 | $61,401 |
| AZ | $77,620 | $61,898 | $61,221 |
| FL | $76,410 | $62,584 | $60,496 |
| KY | $68,420 | $54,686 | $60,448 |
| KS | $69,520 | $54,147 | $60,186 |
| RI | $76,180 | $59,986 | $59,151 |
| NE | $65,370 | $52,434 | $58,018 |
| OR | $83,180 | $60,619 | $57,886 |
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle of the range, not a starting salary and not an offer. Half of logisticians earn less than the figures here and half earn more, and experience, employer and city move an individual a long way from the middle. Nationally the middle earns $82,320.
- The take-home numbers here use the simplest possible household: one filer for logisticians, no children, no pension contributions, standard deduction. Real life usually reduces the tax bill below this. City and school-district income taxes are left out, and in Ohio or Pennsylvania that is a real omission. The best after-tax state here is Washington, at $84,280.
- Levelling out prices for logisticians is done with one number per state, which is a simplification. Living costs inside a state vary a lot between its cities and its countryside. The comparison shows which way the ranking moves, not an exact figure for any address — Oregon sits at the bottom on $57,886.
- Figures are medians of the published wage distribution for logisticians, not entry-level or offer wages. The national median is $82,320, with half of workers below it; dispersion within a state routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, driven by tenure, employer size, sector and metropolitan area. An individual's position in the distribution is not predictable from geography alone.
- Retained-pay figures for logisticians model a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax deferrals — deliberately the simplest household, so the comparison across states isolates geography rather than personal circumstances. Local income taxes are outside the model; Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland residents should expect a meaningfully lower figure than $84,280, which leads in Washington.
- The price deflation applied to logisticians uses state-level parities. Within-state dispersion in price level, concentrated in housing, is large enough that a state figure describes no particular locality well; the bottom of this occupation's real range is Oregon at $57,886. The comparison establishes the direction and rough magnitude of the reordering rather than an address-level result — Oregon anchors the bottom at $57,886 — and the two source series are dated independently.