Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
Transportation, Distribution and LogisticsO*NET 43-5061.00United States
Coordinate and expedite the flow of work and materials within or between departments of an establishment according to production schedule. Duties include reviewing and distributing production, work, and shipment schedules; conferring with department supervisors to determine progress of work and completion dates; and compiling reports on progress of work, inventory levels, costs, and production problems.
- Median annual earnings
- $59,519
- Projected change
- +2.6%
- Typical education
- High school diploma or less
- Employment
- 402.48K jobs
50th percentile, United States
2025 to 2035
56.2% of the workforce
Growing to 413.12K by 2035
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The work
What production, planning, and expediting clerks do
Tasks reported for this occupation, ordered by how often they come up in the role.
- Distribute production schedules or work orders to departments.
- Revise production schedules when required due to design changes, labor or material shortages, backlogs, or other interruptions, collaborating with management, marketing, sales, production, or engineering.
- Review documents, such as production schedules, work orders, or staffing tables, to determine personnel or materials requirements or material priorities.
- Confer with establishment personnel, vendors, or customers to coordinate production or shipping activities and to resolve complaints or eliminate delays.
- Arrange for delivery, assembly, or distribution of supplies or parts to expedite flow of materials and meet production schedules.
- Requisition and maintain inventories of materials or supplies necessary to meet production demands.
- Confer with department supervisors or other personnel to assess progress and discuss needed changes.
- Plan production commitments or timetables for business units, specific programs, or jobs, using sales forecasts.
- Compile information, such as production rates and progress, materials inventories, materials used, or customer information, so that status reports can be completed.
Pay and outlook
What the job pays and where it is heading
Annual earnings range
Reported earnings by percentile, United States
- 10th percentile
- $39,828
- 25th percentile
- $47,630
- 50th percentile
- $59,519
- 75th percentile
- $74,965
- 90th percentile
- $86,311
The gold marker shows the median. Half earn more than $59,519 and half earn less.
Employment outlook
2025 to 2035 projection
+2.6%average or slower
2025402,481 jobs
2035 projected413,118 jobs
10,637 more positions over the decade, before replacement hiring.
Preparation
Education levels
What people currently working in the career hold. These are not entry requirements.
- High school diploma or less
- 56.2%
- Some college
- 21.2%
- Associate degree
- 13.2%
- Certificate
- 9.4%
Skills
Skills employers ask for
Technical skills appearing most often in job postings for this occupation.
How the work gets done
Core competencies
Broad capabilities associated with strong performance in this occupation.
- Reading Comprehension
- Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
- Speaking
- Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Active Listening
- Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Time Management
- Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Critical Thinking
- Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Monitoring
- Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Complex Problem Solving
- Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Writing
- Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Coordination
- Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Systems Analysis
- Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Social Perceptiveness
- Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Active Learning
- Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Systems Evaluation
- Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Negotiation
- Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Persuasion
- Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Mathematics
- Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Service Orientation
- Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Management of Material Resources
- Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
- Management of Personnel Resources
- Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
In the market
Job titles and employers
Recent job postings in United StatesCommon job titles
- 01Schedulers8,452 postings
- 02Scheduling Coordinators5,334 postings
- 03Operations Coordinators4,148 postings
- 04Surgery Schedulers4,002 postings
- 05Appointment Setters3,880 postings
- 06Operations Specialists3,730 postings
- 07Expeditors3,621 postings
- 08Project Schedulers2,667 postings
- 09Production Coordinators2,222 postings
- 10Operations Assistants2,193 postings
- 11Operations Associates1,828 postings
- 12Production Schedulers1,729 postings
- 13Scheduling Specialists1,662 postings
- 14Operations Support Specialists1,545 postings
- 15Planners/Schedulers1,426 postings
- 16Master Schedulers1,326 postings
- 17Technical Operations Specialists1,288 postings
- 18Medical Schedulers1,057 postings
- 19Construction Schedulers968 postings
- 20Patient Schedulers940 postings
Top employers
- 01Chili's Grill & Bar1,467 postings
- 02H&R Block1,193 postings
- 03KPMG877 postings
- 04Sunrun690 postings
- 05Robert Half654 postings
- 06Scale.ai564 postings
- 07Intermountain Health549 postings
- 08Insight Global480 postings
- 09TEKsystems471 postings
- 10PricewaterhouseCoopers428 postings
- 11Ascension344 postings
- 12HCA Healthcare335 postings
- 13CHS322 postings
- 14Boeing309 postings
- 15Guidant Financial302 postings
- 16Northrop Grumman290 postings
- 17Randstad288 postings
- 18Domino's Pizza282 postings
- 19David Yurman279 postings
- 20Maximus278 postings
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