Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
What the pay figures show
- The pay leader for this job is Washington, at $77,190. Tax does not shift it. Prices are the twist. Adjust for what a basket costs and Wyoming comes out ahead, worth $63,701. Worth knowing before anyone packs.
- Nominal and post-tax rankings agree for production, planning, and expediting clerks: Washington leads at $77,190 on both. Applying regional price parities separates them, promoting Wyoming to $63,701 in real terms. Price level, not tax, is the operative variable for this occupation — and it is the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$59,650
People doing it
390,160
Highest paid
$77,190
WA
Best off, really
$63,701
WY, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$40,080
Highest tenth
$86,000
Lowest, really
$42,448
FL
States with data
51
National average
$62,150
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
90.85%
WY, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Pay for this job is fairly steady around the country. Count tax and local prices and the states bunch closer still, from $42,448 to $63,701. For work like this, where you live changes your life more than it changes your pay.
- Roughly 390,160 people hold this job nationally, earning $59,650 in the middle. A solid, ordinary-sized job.
- Every state reports this one. All 51 jurisdictions publish a figure, and the middle wage is $59,650, so the comparison above leaves nobody out.
- Geographic dispersion in production, planning, and expediting clerks is moderate by national standards. Tax and price adjustment compress the distribution further, to a real range of $42,448 through $63,701. Where nominal spread is this contained, relocation decisions in the occupation turn on non-wage factors, because the wage differential does not survive the adjustments in a form large enough to drive them.
- 390,160 are employed nationally in production, planning, and expediting clerks, placing it well inside the reported range without approaching the highest-headcount occupations.
- All 51 jurisdictions publish an occupational median for production, planning, and expediting clerks, so the spread described above is a complete national range rather than a range across a reported subset.
Pay band: Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,080 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $59,650 |
| Top tenth earn over | $86,000 |
| This salary | $59,650 |
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 Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
The national median for this job
$59,650around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $40,080 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $59,650 |
| Top tenth | $86,000 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | New Mexico · $49,640 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Washington · $77,190 |
| Spread | $27,550 |
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 | $55,850 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $57,474 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WY | $69,710 | $57,871 | $63,701 |
| WA | $77,190 | $63,133 | $58,154 |
| LA | $60,120 | $49,069 | $55,543 |
| ND | $58,330 | $49,048 | $55,377 |
| IA | $60,320 | $48,967 | $55,163 |
| ID | $59,950 | $48,026 | $52,530 |
| MI | $61,670 | $49,362 | $52,410 |
| OH | $57,830 | $47,772 | $52,033 |
| IN | $58,980 | $47,860 | $51,918 |
| RI | $65,310 | $52,627 | $51,895 |
| AK | $62,590 | $52,471 | $51,586 |
| UT | $61,650 | $48,972 | $51,549 |
| OK | $56,300 | $45,384 | $51,406 |
| DC | $72,660 | $56,670 | $51,144 |
| WV | $56,290 | $45,699 | $50,906 |
| AL | $57,240 | $45,710 | $50,806 |
| CO | $63,980 | $51,481 | $50,779 |
| WI | $58,540 | $47,185 | $50,683 |
| VT | $60,560 | $48,953 | $50,658 |
| SC | $57,640 | $46,988 | $50,428 |
| KS | $57,080 | $45,147 | $50,183 |
| DE | $62,700 | $49,646 | $50,020 |
| NE | $55,710 | $45,112 | $49,916 |
| KY | $55,690 | $45,095 | $49,847 |
| MN | $61,490 | $48,929 | $49,716 |
| ME | $60,200 | $47,807 | $49,237 |
| PA | $59,240 | $47,961 | $49,190 |
| NH | $61,590 | $51,668 | $49,046 |
| VA | $61,780 | $49,029 | $48,664 |
| SD | $50,530 | $42,781 | $48,562 |
| CT | $63,240 | $50,265 | $48,477 |
| NV | $55,790 | $47,007 | $48,471 |
| TX | $55,850 | $47,055 | $48,423 |
| TN | $53,020 | $44,782 | $48,405 |
| MO | $54,170 | $44,097 | $48,056 |
| AR | $50,350 | $41,232 | $47,662 |
| AZ | $58,580 | $48,187 | $47,660 |
| MS | $51,080 | $41,272 | $47,280 |
| GA | $56,850 | $45,621 | $47,178 |
| NJ | $62,710 | $50,651 | $46,518 |
| IL | $57,880 | $45,966 | $46,499 |
| HI | $63,780 | $50,023 | $46,058 |
| MT | $50,800 | $41,367 | $45,839 |
| NC | $52,640 | $42,885 | $45,555 |
| NM | $49,640 | $40,898 | $45,249 |
| CA | $63,000 | $50,828 | $45,148 |
| MD | $58,590 | $46,838 | $45,051 |
| NY | $60,920 | $48,437 | $45,004 |
| MA | $60,280 | $47,921 | $44,274 |
| OR | $60,790 | $46,256 | $44,171 |
| FL | $51,940 | $43,914 | $42,448 |
Sources and assumptions
- These are middle-of-the-range figures for this job, not what a new starter is offered. Half the people doing this job earn under $59,650 nationally, half over. Your own experience and employer will move you well away from that midpoint in either direction.
- Take-home figures for this job assume one person filing alone, with no dependants and nothing going into a pension before tax. Any of those lowers the tax and raises what you keep, so treat these as the plain case rather than your case. Local city income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those matter. In Washington, the best state after tax, the figure works out at $63,133.
- Levelling out prices for this job 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 — Florida sits at the bottom on $42,448.
- All wage figures for production, planning, and expediting clerks are medians rather than entry or offer rates; the national median is $59,650. Within-state dispersion typically exceeds between-state dispersion in this data, so an individual's expected wage is determined more by experience, sector and employer than by the state comparisons presented here.
- Take-home calculations for production, planning, and expediting clerks assume a single filer with no dependants, the standard deduction, and no pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figures function as a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape; the highest such figure is $63,133, in Washington. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland and parts of a few other states.
- The price deflation applied to production, planning, and expediting clerks 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 Florida at $42,448. The comparison establishes the direction and rough magnitude of the reordering rather than an address-level result — Florida anchors the bottom at $42,448 — and the two source series are dated independently.