Freight Forwarders build coordination, service orientation and social perceptiveness skills that carry over to other work. Below are 25 careers ranked by how closely their skills match, with pay from BLS May 2025. The closest match is Customs Brokers (85%).
Updated October 2026 · Data: O*NET 31.0 and BLS OEWS May 2025 · How we match careers
Sorted by skill match.
| # | Career | Skill match | Median pay | Pay change | Extra education |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Customs Brokers | 85% | $80,730Pay for the broader BLS group “Compliance Officers” | Not compared | Certificate or associate |
| 2 | Procurement Clerks | 82% | $50,580 | — | None |
| 3 | Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks | 78% | $44,390 | — | None |
| 4 | Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors | 78% | $58,170 | — | None |
| 5 | Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers | 78% | $58,650 | — | None |
| 6 | Tellers | 75% | $43,030 | — | None |
| 7 | Correspondence Clerks | 75% | $46,800 | — | None |
| 8 | Postmasters and Mail Superintendents | 75% | $96,660 | — | None |
| 9 | Office Clerks, General | 75% | $45,010 | — | None |
| 10 | Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks | 74% | $49,230 | — | None |
Compared with Freight Forwarders, median —. Skill match is our estimate (0–99) from O*NET 31.0 skills, knowledge, work activities and interests, adjusted for preparation and big pay drops. Pay: BLS OEWS May 2025, national median.
How important each skill is in work as freight forwarders (O*NET importance, scale 1–5).
The gaps that show up most often across your top 10 matches.
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A concrete first step, the skills to add, and the hard parts of each job, from O*NET 31.0 education, training and work context data.
85% skill match · $80,730 (broader BLS group)
Complex Problem Solving · Management of Personnel Resources · Judgment and Decision Making
82% skill match · $50,580
Judgment and Decision Making · Complex Problem Solving · Social Perceptiveness
No work-context factor stands out as unusually hard in O*NET data.
78% skill match · $44,390
Service Orientation · Social Perceptiveness · Programming
If you want to stay close to what you do now, these roles are the nearest.
The closest matches are Customs Brokers (85% skill match, median $80,730), Procurement Clerks (82% skill match, median $50,580) and Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks (78% skill match, median $44,390), based on O*NET 31.0 data and BLS May 2025 pay.
None of the 25 closest matches pays more than freight forwarders at the national median (BLS May 2025). Higher-paying moves usually need more training.
24 of the 25 matches usually need no more education than you have now, based on O*NET Job Zones.
We compare the importance of skills, knowledge, work activities and interests in O*NET 31.0 for your job and every other career, then adjust for extra preparation and big pay drops. The full method is on our Methodology page.