As of June 2026, Logistics Analysts has an AI-exposure score of 71/100 (High exposure) on the AI-Safe Careers index, blending O*NET tasks, the Anthropic Economic Index, the Penn/OpenAI study, and BLS data. This is an estimate of task exposure, not a prediction of job loss.
Logistics Analysts
More exposed than 92% of the roles we track. Median pay ~US$82,320. About 26,400 projected openings a year (BLS 2024–34 — growth plus replacement).
Pay & demand figures are US medians (BLS, in USD) — your local figures will differ. Your exposure score applies broadly.
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Your tasks, by AI exposure
- Contact carriers for rates or schedules.
- Remotely monitor the flow of vehicles or inventory, using Web-based logistics information systems to track vehicles or containers.
- Maintain logistics records in accordance with corporate policies.
- Maintain databases of logistics information.
- Enter logistics-related data into databases.
- Recommend improvements to existing or planned logistics processes.
- Analyze logistics data, using methods such as data mining, data modeling, or cost or benefit analysis.
- Provide ongoing analyses in areas such as transportation costs, parts procurement, back orders, or delivery processes.
- Apply analytic methods or tools to understand, predict, or control logistics operations or processes.
- Compute reporting metrics, such as on-time delivery rates, order fulfillment rates, or inventory turns.
- Monitor inventory transactions at warehouse facilities to assess receiving, storage, shipping, or inventory integrity.
- Track product flow from origin to final delivery.
- Manage systems to ensure that pricing structures adequately reflect logistics costing.
- Confer with logistics management teams to determine ways to optimize service levels, maintain supply-chain efficiency, or minimize cost.
- Communicate with or monitor service providers, such as ocean carriers, air freight forwarders, global consolidators, customs brokers, or trucking companies.
- Review procedures, such as distribution or inventory management, to ensure maximum efficiency or minimum cost.
- Develop or maintain models for logistics uses, such as cost estimating or demand forecasting.
- Identify opportunities for inventory reductions.
- Interpret data on logistics elements, such as availability, maintainability, reliability, supply chain management, strategic sourcing or distribution, supplier management, or transportation.
- Prepare reports on logistics performance measures.
No augmentable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as automatable (100%).
No durable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as automatable (100%).
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Logistics Analysts — median pay by US state (BLS OEWS, USD)
Median annual wage, in USD. US national: US$82,320. More states are being added.