As a Junior Timber Sales Administrator, you work alongside senior timber sales staff while learning the niche craft of timber sales administration — supporting timber contract work, learning forest management practices, helping with customer and supplier coordination. The work tends to be supervised and forestry-focused.
Most days mix supervised administrative work with structured learning — supporting senior timber sales staff on contract administration, learning timber appraisal and harvest planning, helping with customer and supplier coordination, supporting documentation and reporting, and partnering with senior staff and forest managers. You're often working at forest products companies, public lands forestry agencies (USFS, state forestry, BLM), or specialty timber organizations, and the land base and harvest model shape early work.
What tends to be harder than people expect is the technical and regulatory depth combined with rural settings. Timber appraisal, harvest planning, environmental regulations, and forestry science all develop together, and rural and remote field work is common. Mentorship quality, forestry credentials, and specialty exposure shape early growth.
People who tend to thrive here are comfortable with rural and forest environments, technically curious about forestry, methodical about administration, and willing to learn from senior staff. If you want urban office work, timber lives in rural settings. If you like building a foundation in timber sales administration, the early years build a base toward senior timber sales administrator or specialty forestry roles.
Where this role sits in the broader career landscape — and where it can take you.
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As a Junior Timber Sales Administrator, you work alongside senior timber sales staff while learning the niche craft of timber sales administration — supporting timber contract work, learning forest management practices, helping with customer and supplier coordination. The work tends to be supervised and forestry-focused.
Median pay for a Junior Timber Sales Administrator (timber Sales Admin) is about $71K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $49K to $103K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Active Listening, Complex Problem Solving, Reading Comprehension, Speaking, and Critical Thinking.
Most people in this role hold a bachelor's degree.
Employment in this field is projected to grow about 1.2% through 2034, with roughly 9,650 people working in it today (BLS).
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