Calculating pricing for delivery services in transportation, logistics, or courier operations, you build the quotes that price out customer shipments — rate computation, surcharge application, and the detailed work that turns a request for transportation into a number.
A typical day tends to involve rate requests, tariff and contract lookups, and the careful work of building accurate quotes — pulling customer-specific rates, applying fuel and accessorial surcharges, computing zone-based pricing, ensuring the quote matches the published or negotiated tariff. Quote accuracy, turnaround time, and win rates are the operating measures.
The friction often lies in the complexity of transportation pricing — multiple rate bases, dimensional pricing, accessorials that depend on the lane, customer-specific contract terms. Variance across employers is real: parcel and small-package operations run highly automated; LTL and project freight involve more manual quoting and negotiation.
This work tends to fit folks who find pleasure in the puzzle of pricing — every quote is a small calculation that has to balance accuracy with competitiveness. The trade-off is time-pressure on inbound quotes (lose them slow, you lose them) and the discipline required to keep pricing knowledge current as fuel, surcharges, and contracts shift.
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View all Admin & Office roles →Calculating pricing for delivery services in transportation, logistics, or courier operations, you build the quotes that price out customer shipments — rate computation, surcharge application, and the detailed work that turns a request for transportation into a number.
Median pay for a Delivery Service Pricer is about $47K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $36K to $65K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Reading Comprehension, Mathematics, Monitoring, Time Management, and Critical Thinking.
Most people in this role hold an associate's degree.
Employment in this field is projected to decline about 0.4% through 2034, with roughly 417,500 people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Customer Service Director, Interline Clerk, and Senior Accounts Receivable Analyst.
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