Purchasing Supervisors
Training and Education
| Fast Facts* | |
|---|---|
| Recommended Degree Level | Bachelor |
| Salary, Typical | $100,170 |
| Salary Range | |
| Number of Jobs, 2012 | 69,400 |
| Annual Job Growth Rate | 3.6% |
| Job Openings per Year (est.) | 2,560 |
A bachelor's or higher degree, plus work experience is often required to work in this field. Survey data provided by the government shows that 57% of employees have a bachelor's degree or higher. 28% of purchasing supervisors attended college, but do not have a degree. 15% of workers were able to find a job with only a high school education.
Part-Time Work and Self-Employment
Of those working as employees, 2% work fewer than 40 hours per week. Around 3% of purchasing supervisors are independent contractors.
A quick recap of the work for purchasing supervisors. Produced for the US Dept. of Labor.
See typical salaries and ranges for this career below*. Shift click to sort by more than one column -- for example first shift-click on state and then shift-click on salary to find best and worst salaries in each state.
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Salaries by City
State City / Region Typical Salary Salary Range Job Count % of All Jobs AK Anchorage $95,250 60 0.03% AL Birmingham - Hoover $89,460 220 0.05% AL Huntsville $111,380 330 0.16% AL Mobile $99,920 60 0.03% AL Montgomery $81,550 70 0.04% AL Tuscaloosa $103,310 30 0.04% AR Fayetteville - Springdale - Rogers $143,590 180 0.09% AR Fort Smith $90,260 40 0.04% AR Little Rock - North Little Rock - Conway $69,300 120 0.03% AZ Phoenix - Mesa - Glendale $95,700 1,010 0.06% AZ Tucson $100,890 160 0.04% CA Bakersfield - Delano $96,020 80 0.03% CA Fresno $94,260 80 0.03% CA Los Angeles - Long Beach - Glendale (Metro Area) $108,930 2,220 0.06% CA Modesto $106,350 50 0.03% CA Oakland - Fremont - Hayward (Metro Area) $121,440 700 0.07% CA Oxnard - Thousand Oaks - Ventura $106,560 170 0.06% CA Riverside - San Bernardino - Ontario $87,860 420 0.04% CA Sacramento - Arden - Arcade - Roseville $105,230 260 0.03% CA Salinas $100,040 40 0.03% CA San Diego - Carlsbad - San Marcos $108,680 760 0.06% CA San Francisco - San Mateo - Redwood City (Metro Area) $127,470 540 0.05% CA San Jose - Sunnyvale - Santa Clara $132,310 830 0.09% CA Santa Ana - Anaheim - Irvine (Metro Area) $99,670 880 0.06% CA Santa Barbara - Santa Maria - Goleta $102,620 80 0.05% CA Santa Cruz - Watsonville $72,830 60 0.07% CA Santa Rosa - Petaluma $106,150 90 0.05% CA Stockton $86,500 60 0.03% CA Vallejo - Fairfield $125,580 30 0.03% CO Boulder $110,260 40 0.03% CO Colorado Springs $114,000 40 0.01% CO Denver - Aurora - Broomfield $121,600 420 0.03% CO Fort Collins - Loveland $103,720 40 0.03% CO Greeley $103,440 40 0.05% CT Bridgeport - Stamford - Norwalk $99,860 470 0.11% CT Danbury $107,100 70 0.11% CT Hartford - West Hartford - East Hartford $96,450 620 0.11% CT New Haven $91,570 180 0.07% CT Norwich - New London $85,070 80 0.06% CT Waterbury $87,720 40 0.07% DC Washington - Arlington - Alexandria (Metro Area) $126,240 3,600 0.15% DE Wilmington (Metro Area) $119,650 110 0.03% FL Cape Coral - Fort Myers $93,350 40 0.02% FL Fort Lauderdale - Pompano Beach - Deerfield Beach (Metro Area) $95,980 190 0.03% FL Jacksonville $113,060 140 0.02% FL Lakeland - Winter Haven $111,040 40 0.02% FL Miami - Miami Beach - Kendall (Metro Area) $125,270 280 0.03% FL North Port - Bradenton - Sarasota $103,110 60 0.02% FL Orlando - Kissimmee - Sanford $103,860 210 0.02% FL Palm Bay - Melbourne - Titusville $116,030 80 0.04% FL Tampa - St. Petersburg - Clearwater $93,000 310 0.03% FL West Palm Beach - Boca Raton - Boynton Beach (Metro Area) $103,840 120 0.02% GA Atlanta - Sandy Springs - Marietta $110,890 1,480 0.07% GA Augusta - Richmond County $101,570 80 0.04% GA Columbus $76,280 40 0.04% GA Savannah $102,840 150 0.10% HI Honolulu $68,790 180 0.04% IA Cedar Rapids $80,270 50 0.04% IA Davenport - Moline - Rock Island $89,850 120 0.07% IA Des Moines - West Des Moines $80,480 70 0.02% IA Waterloo - Cedar Falls $75,320 50 0.05% ID Boise City - Nampa $80,130 140 0.05% IL Champaign - Urbana $85,960 60 0.07% IL Chicago - Joliet - Naperville (Metro Area) $84,550 2,520 0.07% IL Lake County - Kenosha County (Metro Area) $87,960 520 0.14% IL Peoria $119,290 240 0.13% IL Rockford $75,460 110 0.08% IL Springfield $58,600 40 0.04% IN Columbus $108,120 110 0.25% IN Elkhart - Goshen $73,720 120 0.11% IN Evansville $82,850 70 0.04% IN Fort Wayne $68,300 160 0.08% IN Gary (Metro Area) $89,670 110 0.04% IN Indianapolis - Carmel $95,390 430 0.05% IN South Bend - Mishawaka $81,600 80 0.06% IN Terre Haute $73,960 30 0.05% KS Topeka $70,310 40 0.03% KS Wichita $89,920 240 0.09% KY Lexington - Fayette $59,310 190 0.08% KY Louisville - Jefferson County $84,620 350 0.06% LA Baton Rouge $66,410 180 0.05% LA Houma - Bayou Cane - Thibodaux $75,930 50 0.06% LA Lafayette $67,520 80 0.05% LA New Orleans - Metairie - Kenner $67,650 240 0.05% LA Shreveport - Bossier City $64,620 50 0.03% MA Boston - Cambridge - Quincy (Metro Area) $102,260 1,260 0.07% MA Brockton - Bridgewater - Easton (Metro Area) $68,840 50 0.06% MA Framingham (Metro Area) $119,930 180 0.11% MA Haverhill - North Andover - Amesbury (Metro Area) $93,650 50 0.07% MA Lawrence - Methuen - Salem (Metro Area) $83,790 40 0.06% MA Leominster - Fitchburg - Gardner $87,830 30 0.07% MA Lowell - Billerica - Chelmsford (Metro Area) $115,190 120 0.10% MA New Bedford $94,860 30 0.05% MA Peabody (Metro Area) $82,440 90 0.09% MA Springfield $86,480 200 0.07% MA Taunton - Norton - Raynham (Metro Area) $109,020 60 0.13% MA Worcester $91,610 170 0.07% MD Baltimore - Towson $115,710 690 0.05% MD Bethesda - Rockville - Frederick (Metro Area) $127,600 440 0.08% MD Salisbury N/A 30 0.06% ME Portland - South Portland - Biddeford $87,720 120 0.06% MI Ann Arbor $90,040 100 0.05% MI Battle Creek $113,020 40 0.07% MI Detroit - Livonia - Dearborn (Metro Area) $106,010 470 0.07% MI Flint $70,560 30 0.03% MI Grand Rapids - Wyoming $80,360 360 0.09% MI Holland - Grand Haven $87,530 110 0.11% MI Kalamazoo - Portage $82,790 120 0.09% MI Lansing - East Lansing $72,470 90 0.05% MI Monroe $83,510 30 0.08% MI Muskegon - Norton Shores $83,980 40 0.06% MI Niles - Benton Harbor $97,590 110 0.19% MI Saginaw - Saginaw Township North $93,210 60 0.07% MI Warren - Troy - Farmington Hills (Metro Area) $96,010 810 0.08% MN Duluth $85,870 80 0.06% MN Minneapolis - St. Paul - Bloomington $102,340 2,050 0.12% MN Rochester $89,940 70 0.07% MN St. Cloud $91,360 40 0.05% MO Kansas City $102,960 500 0.05% MO Springfield $90,040 50 0.03% MO St. Louis $110,980 730 0.06% MS Gulfport - Biloxi $84,920 40 0.04% MS Jackson $78,800 130 0.05% NC Asheville $76,740 60 0.03% NC Charlotte - Gastonia - Rock Hill $97,640 520 0.06% NC Durham - Chapel Hill $116,250 290 0.11% NC Fayetteville $109,600 30 0.02% NC Greensboro - High Point $87,510 190 0.06% NC Greenville $108,480 30 0.05% NC Hickory - Lenoir - Morganton $83,820 70 0.05% NC Raleigh - Cary $101,520 250 0.05% NC Rocky Mount $88,440 40 0.06% NC Wilmington $96,690 30 0.02% NC Winston - Salem $97,510 110 0.06% ND Fargo $97,900 70 0.06% NE Lincoln $79,850 40 0.02% NE Omaha - Council Bluffs $96,300 110 0.03% NH Manchester $87,820 40 0.04% NH Nashua (Metro Area) $106,080 130 0.10% NH Portsmouth $119,240 60 0.10% NJ Atlantic City - Hammonton $97,160 50 0.04% NJ Camden (Metro Area) $119,330 240 0.05% NJ Edison - New Brunswick (Metro Area) $122,250 620 0.06% NJ Newark - Union (Metro Area) $119,020 550 0.06% NJ Trenton - Ewing $112,970 120 0.05% NM Albuquerque $83,410 130 0.03% NV Las Vegas - Paradise $98,510 260 0.03% NV Reno - Sparks $89,520 N/A N/A NY Albany - Schenectady - Troy $89,720 260 0.06% NY Binghamton $93,610 50 0.05% NY Buffalo - Niagara Falls $90,660 210 0.04% NY Nassau - Suffolk (Metro Area) $124,810 520 0.04% NY New York - White Plains - Wayne (Metro Area) $132,280 2,780 0.05% NY Poughkeepsie - Newburgh - Middletown $121,620 100 0.04% NY Rochester $93,310 280 0.06% NY Syracuse $102,260 110 0.04% NY Utica - Rome $101,040 N/A N/A OH Akron $85,920 310 0.10% OH Canton - Massillon $70,200 70 0.05% OH Cincinnati - Middletown $96,290 680 0.07% OH Cleveland - Elyria - Mentor $94,650 670 0.07% OH Columbus $99,570 360 0.04% OH Dayton $111,570 240 0.07% OH Toledo $92,560 90 0.03% OH Youngstown - Warren - Boardman $81,890 50 0.02% OK Oklahoma City $81,870 290 0.05% OK Tulsa $83,040 190 0.05% OR Eugene - Springfield $73,320 50 0.04% OR Portland - Vancouver - Hillsboro $91,630 700 0.07% OR Salem $71,760 120 0.08% PA Allentown - Bethlehem - Easton $113,230 240 0.07% PA Erie $91,550 40 0.03% PA Harrisburg - Carlisle $107,810 170 0.05% PA Lancaster $90,890 60 0.03% PA Philadelphia (Metro Area) $120,030 850 0.05% PA Pittsburgh $107,770 500 0.04% PA Reading $112,360 50 0.03% PA Scranton - Wilkes - Barre $99,150 50 0.02% PA York - Hanover $77,790 80 0.05% PR San Juan - Caguas - Guaynabo $53,480 260 0.04% RI Providence - Fall River - Warwick $95,960 260 0.05% SC Charleston - North Charleston - Summerville $89,800 130 0.04% SC Columbia $73,830 190 0.06% SC Florence $72,030 50 0.06% SC Greenville - Mauldin - Easley $82,930 150 0.05% SC Spartanburg $85,940 60 0.05% TN Chattanooga $86,220 110 0.05% TN Clarksville $73,950 50 0.06% TN Jackson $63,490 30 0.05% TN Johnson City $57,630 50 0.06% TN Kingsport - Bristol - Bristol $94,110 80 0.07% TN Knoxville $76,430 250 0.08% TN Memphis $83,610 430 0.07% TN Morristown $75,900 40 0.09% TN Nashville - Davidson - Murfreesboro - Franklin $73,910 520 0.07% TX Austin - Round Rock - San Marcos $120,670 430 0.05% TX Beaumont - Port Arthur $91,210 40 0.02% TX Brownsville - Harlingen $83,060 30 0.02% TX Corpus Christi $86,640 50 0.03% TX Dallas - Plano - Irving (Metro Area) $104,690 1,150 0.05% TX El Paso $94,010 50 0.02% TX Fort Worth - Arlington (Metro Area) $103,750 360 0.04% TX Houston - Sugar Land - Baytown $119,660 1,540 0.06% TX San Antonio - New Braunfels $96,640 350 0.04% UT Ogden - Clearfield $109,580 100 0.05% UT Provo - Orem $87,220 50 0.03% UT Salt Lake City $89,990 230 0.04% VA Charlottesville $93,950 50 0.05% VA Lynchburg $111,650 50 0.05% VA Richmond $104,240 390 0.06% VA Roanoke $94,030 40 0.03% VA Virginia Beach - Norfolk - Newport News $101,500 390 0.05% VA Winchester $115,710 30 0.06% VT Burlington - South Burlington $89,170 110 0.09% WA Kennewick - Pasco - Richland $120,260 90 0.10% WA Olympia $80,090 40 0.05% WA Seattle - Bellevue - Everett (Metro Area) $113,340 1,290 0.09% WA Spokane $83,270 80 0.04% WA Tacoma (Metro Area) $81,350 90 0.03% WI Appleton $84,130 50 0.04% WI Eau Claire $72,640 40 0.06% WI Fond du Lac $63,570 30 0.08% WI Green Bay $88,040 110 0.07% WI Janesville $86,720 40 0.06% WI Madison $93,370 280 0.08% WI Milwaukee - Waukesha - West Allis $89,930 680 0.08% WI Oshkosh - Neenah $88,770 100 0.12% WI Racine $83,900 70 0.09% WI Wausau $73,570 40 0.07%
Area Job Conditions
On a per capita basis, there are more jobs for employees in Columbus (Indiana), Niles (Michigan), and Battle Creek (Michigan), and fewer jobs in Tallahassee (Florida), El Paso (Texas), and Bakersfield (California).
Compensation for purchasing supervisors is the most in Washington (District of Columbia), Bethesda (Maryland), and Austin (Texas), and the lowest in Jackson (Tennessee), Johnson City (Tennessee), and Shreveport (Louisiana).