Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks build time management, complex problem solving and coordination 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 Procurement Clerks (82%).
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 | Procurement Clerks | 82% | $50,580 | −15% | None |
| 2 | Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers | 77% | $58,650 | −2% | None |
| 3 | Postmasters and Mail Superintendents | 77% | $96,660 | +62% | None |
| 4 | First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers | 76% | $69,500 | +17% | Certificate or associate |
| 5 | First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers | 75% | $74,450 | +25% | Certificate or associate |
| 6 | Gambling Managers | 73% | $93,220 | +56% | None |
| 7 | Administrative Services Managers | 72% | $114,130 | +91% | Certificate or associate |
| 8 | Order Clerks | 71% | $46,170 | −23% | None |
| 9 | Project Management Specialists | 71% | $102,320 | +72% | Bachelor's degree |
| 10 | Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks | 70% | $49,230 | −17% | None |
Compared with Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks, median $59,650. 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 production, planning, and expediting clerks (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.
82% skill match · $50,580 · −15% pay
Social Perceptiveness · Judgment and Decision Making · Service Orientation
No work-context factor stands out as unusually hard in O*NET data.
77% skill match · $58,650 · −2% pay
Service Orientation
77% skill match · $96,660 · +62% pay
Management of Personnel Resources · Instructing · Social Perceptiveness
If you want to stay close to what you do now, these roles are the nearest.
The closest matches are Procurement Clerks (82% skill match, median $50,580), Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers (77% skill match, median $58,650) and Postmasters and Mail Superintendents (77% skill match, median $96,660), based on O*NET 31.0 data and BLS May 2025 pay.
Among the 25 matches, 12 pay more than production, planning, and expediting clerks at the median. The biggest increases: Administrative Services Managers (+91%, $114,130), Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers (+80%, $107,230) and Project Management Specialists (+72%, $102,320).
17 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.