Senior scheduler vs production clerk

The differences between senior schedulers and production clerks can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 1-2 years to become both a senior scheduler and a production clerk. Additionally, a senior scheduler has an average salary of $75,395, which is higher than the $32,281 average annual salary of a production clerk.

The top three skills for a senior scheduler include project management, construction management and primavera p6. The most important skills for a production clerk are basic math, data entry, and safety procedures.

Senior scheduler vs production clerk overview

	Senior Scheduler	Production Clerk
Yearly salary	$75,395	$32,281
Hourly rate	$36.25	$15.52
Growth rate	-3%	-3%
Number of jobs	13,771	241,271
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 60%	High School Diploma, 31%
Average age	45	45
Years of experience	2	2

What does a senior scheduler do?

Senior schedulers are professionals who are responsible for developing detailed construction planning schedules for new construction and renovation works. These schedulers are required to monitor project progress as well as prepare detailed plans and time-scaled charts and diagrams. They must work with third-party schedulers to review design and construction schedules while providing written comments. Senior schedulers must also provide progress reporting documents and briefing materials by developing creative reporting tools to communicate complex project sequencing and progress assessments.

What does a production clerk do?

Production clerks are involved with parts, warehousing, and inventory management operations. Those who choose this career path will be required to review and distribute production, work, and shipment schedules, as well as confer with department supervisors in order to determine the progress of work and completion dates. Production clerks also compile reports on things like work progress, inventory levels, cost, and production issues.

Senior scheduler vs production clerk salary

Senior schedulers and production clerks have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Senior Scheduler	Production Clerk
Average salary	$75,395	$32,281
Salary range	Between $48,000 And $118,000	Between $25,000 And $40,000
Highest paying City	San Francisco, CA	Minneapolis, MN
Highest paying state	California	Massachusetts
Best paying company	PBF Energy	Rich Products
Best paying industry	Technology	Manufacturing

Differences between senior scheduler and production clerk education

There are a few differences between a senior scheduler and a production clerk in terms of educational background:

	Senior Scheduler	Production Clerk
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 60%	High School Diploma, 31%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	Western Carolina University	Western Carolina University

Senior scheduler vs production clerk demographics

Here are the differences between senior schedulers' and production clerks' demographics:

	Senior Scheduler	Production Clerk
Average age	45	45
Gender ratio	Male, 58.7% Female, 41.3%	Male, 31.8% Female, 68.2%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 10.3% Unknown, 4.9% Hispanic or Latino, 17.0% Asian, 7.0% White, 60.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.5%	Black or African American, 10.3% Unknown, 4.9% Hispanic or Latino, 16.9% Asian, 7.0% White, 60.3% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.5%
LGBT Percentage	11%	11%

Differences between senior scheduler and production clerk duties and responsibilities

Senior scheduler example responsibilities.

Coordinate and manage high visibility and important customer BOM changes.
Perform major WBS restructuring and logic correction to the construction schedule for the project s critical path building.
Assist MRI patients onto MRI table, assuring that they are position properly onto MRI coils.
Put together, work orders assemble into planned work packages and used the planned tasks to build the LP6 turnaround schedule.
Perform twice-daily updates of turnaround status.
Crate universal WBS coding structure and streamline scheduling architecture among various stakeholders.

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Production clerk example responsibilities.

Flight line expediter ensures maintenance accomplishment and sortie production by managing, controlling and directing allocate resources and personnel.
Clean windows, glass partitions, and mirrors with water and other cleaners with sponges and squeegees.
Coordinate with multiple sewing facilities to expedite late customer orders.
Ship via fed ex and ups.
Observe and follow GMP guidelines ensuring product quality.
Perform cycle counting of WIP and complete inventories.

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Senior scheduler vs production clerk skills

Common senior scheduler skills

Project Management, 10%
Construction Management, 9%
Primavera P6, 7%
Scheduling Software, 6%
Project Controls, 6%
Patients, 5%

Common production clerk skills

Basic Math, 16%
Data Entry, 16%
Safety Procedures, 8%
Math, 8%
Production Reports, 4%
GMP, 4%

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Updated January 8, 2025

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