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Supply Chain & Transportation

National Career Cluster · the map of work

Supply Chain & Transportation is one of the 14 national career clusters — the U.S. Department of Education's map that divides the whole world of work into broad families, each crosswalked to occupations, education programs, and industries. This cluster spans 84 occupations across 6 sub-clusters, employing about 19,287,090 workers, with a median wage of $57,900.

What's in this cluster

A career cluster is a navigational grouping, not a measured score. The counts below come from the framework's official crosswalk; employment and pay are aggregated from BLS OEWS (national, cross-industry, May 2024) across the occupations in the cluster.

84 occupations
6 sub-clusters
19,287,090 workers (BLS)
$57,900 median pay
70 education programs

Across occupations with wage data, the middle range (25th–75th percentile of occupation medians) runs $46,553 – $77,398. This describes the cluster, not any one job or person.

Sub-clusters

The framework splits each cluster into sub-clusters — tighter families of related work. The count is the number of occupations the crosswalk places in each.

Sub-cluster Occupations
Maintenance & Repair 28
Ground & Rail Transportation 21
Air & Space Transportation 12
Purchasing & Warehousing 11
Marine Transportation 8
Planning & Logistics 8

Largest occupations in this cluster

Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 37 occupations in Supply Chain & Transportation. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Tire Repairers and Changers Highway Maintenance Workers Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Automotive Body and Related Repairers Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians Driver/Sales Workers Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers Parking Attendants Light Truck Drivers Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers Bus Drivers, School Flight Attendants Commercial Pilots First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers Purchasing Managers Cargo and Freight Agents Logisticians Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians Procurement Clerks AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
The largest occupations in this cluster with both an AI task-overlap score and a wage, plotted by task-overlap percentile (horizontal) and median-pay percentile (vertical). Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation.

Occupations in this cluster with the most workers nationally (BLS OEWS, May 2024), each linked to its full profile. Employment and pay describe the occupation, not an individual.

Occupation Workers Median pay
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand 2,982,530 $38,940
Stockers and Order Fillers 2,779,530 $37,090
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers 2,070,480 $57,440
Light Truck Drivers 994,410 $44,140
Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks 857,630 $43,190
Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators 805,770 $46,390
Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics 688,840 $49,670
First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors 605,510 $61,890
Packers and Packagers, Hand 601,440 $35,580
First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers 600,680 $78,300
Buyers and Purchasing Agents 486,900 $75,650
Driver/Sales Workers 417,420 $37,130
Bus Drivers, School 387,920 $47,040
Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks 385,000 $57,770
Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders 383,860 $40,900
Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment 373,960 $35,270
Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists 287,230 $60,640
Logisticians 235,640 $80,880
Industrial Production Managers 234,380 $121,440
Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs 229,630 $36,670
Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers 213,000 $102,010
Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 159,500 $47,590
Automotive Body and Related Repairers 155,220 $51,680
Highway Maintenance Workers 151,750 $49,070
Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity 148,980 $57,440
Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians 136,390 $78,680
Parking Attendants 134,650 $34,600
Flight Attendants 130,110 $67,130
Tire Repairers and Changers 106,620 $37,120
Natural Sciences Managers 100,870 $161,180
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers 99,300 $226,600
Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants 98,270 $34,850
Cargo and Freight Agents 97,800 $49,900
Purchasing Managers 81,240 $139,510
Couriers and Messengers 71,920 $38,340
Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other 64,410 $77,390
Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians 62,130 $64,200
Procurement Clerks 59,900 $48,510
Commercial Pilots 51,830 $122,670
Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other 50,330 $36,260

AI exposure across this cluster

Two published studies estimate how exposed each occupation is to today's AI. The OpenAI "GPTs are GPTs" study rates the share of an occupation's tasks a large language model (with tools) could speed up by half or more; averaged across this cluster it is 18% — 11th percentile of the 14 clusters. The independent Felten/Raj/Seamans AI Occupational Exposure index averages -0.46 here.

Computed across the 76 of 84 occupations in this cluster that carry a published exposure score.

Exposure measures where AI could assist tasks — it is not a prediction that these jobs will be automated. High exposure most often means augmentation (faster work), and many high-exposure occupations are also projected to grow.

Where the work sits

The framework anchors each cluster to one or more NAICS industry sectors — the parts of the economy where this work concentrates.

Education programs that lead here

A sample of the 70 CIP 2020 instructional programs the framework crosswalks to this cluster — the fields of study that prepare people for this work.

  • Aeronautics/Aviation/Aerospace Science and Technology, General
  • Aerospace Ground Equipment Technology
  • Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering, Other
  • Agricultural Mechanics and Equipment/Machine Technology/Technician
  • Agricultural/Farm Supplies Retailing and Wholesaling
  • Air Traffic Controller
  • Air and Space Operations Technology
  • Aircraft Powerplant Technology/Technician
  • Airframe Mechanics and Aircraft Maintenance Technology/Technician
  • Airline Flight Attendant
  • Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew
  • Alternative Fuel Vehicle Technology/Technician
  • Apparel and Textile Marketing Management
  • Astronomy
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics, Other
  • Astrophysics
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Climatology
  • Atmospheric Physics and Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, General
  • Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, Other
  • Autobody/Collision and Repair Technology/Technician
  • Automobile/Automotive Mechanics Technology/Technician
  • Automotive Engineering Technology/Technician
  • Aviation/Airway Management and Operations

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 3, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

Cite this page
Plain

Singulariki. "Supply Chain & Transportation." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; CIP-2020 2020; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/clusters/supply-chain-transportation

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Supply Chain & Transportation. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/clusters/supply-chain-transportation

BibTeX
@misc{singulariki-supply-chain-transportation,
  title  = {Supply Chain & Transportation},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; CIP-2020 2020; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/clusters/supply-chain-transportation}
}

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