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Production Planner jobs: 278 open roles

Open production planner jobs taken from employers’ own career sites and checked to still be open. Listings that state pay show a median of $86,000 a year.

The market for production planner work

Every figure names its source. Skills and AI-skill shares describe the whole Operations function this title sits in. Outlook, pay and AI-use figures are for the government category “Production, planning, and expediting clerks”, the closest occupation to this title.

Verified open production planner jobs
278

Source: NextChapter, checked against employer career sites, last 7 days.

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Median pay in listings that state it
$86,000

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

Employment outlook
Projected -1% from 2025 to 2035 (little or no change).

Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2025–2035.

National median pay, all levels
$59,650

Source: BLS OEWS, 2025.

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Openings a year nationally, growth plus replacement
32,600

Source: BLS Employment Projections.

AI use at work
AI use among production, planning, and expediting clerks is little observed so far.

Source: Anthropic Economic Index.

Operations openings that ask for AI skills
2%

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

Operations openings that are remote
3%

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

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Skills most often named in openings

  1. 1. procurement12%
  2. 2. supply chain11%
  3. 3. logistics9%
  4. 4. project management7%
  5. 5. excel7%
  6. 6. audit4%
  7. 7. lean3%
  8. 8. forecasting3%

AI skills worth building for this work

  1. 1. AI tools in daily work
  2. 2. Gen-AI assistants (ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude)
  3. 3. Prompt design
  4. 4. AI coding assistants
  5. 5. AI workflow automation
  6. 6. Automation platforms (Zapier, n8n, Power Automate)

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Open production planner jobs

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Production Planner salary

The middle half of production planner listings that state pay run from $77,500 to $92,000. See the full production planner salary breakdown.

Operations jobs in the rankings

Rankings about operations jobs

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Where production planner jobs are

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Production Planner jobs by city and state

Employers hiring production planners

  • Entegris 9
  • Coherent 3
  • Aston Carter 3
  • Xylem 3
  • Actalent 3
  • Emerson 3
  • RTX 2
  • Nbmbaa 2
  • Howmet Aerospace 2
  • Korry Electronics 2

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