Mid-Level

Price Lister

Maintaining price lists in a retail, distribution, manufacturing, or services environment, you keep the pricing documents current — applying changes, distributing updates, supporting sales teams with reference material, and the small but constant work of keeping pricing accurate.

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Job markets for Price Listers
Employment concentration · ~391 areas
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What it's like

What it's like to be a Price Lister

A typical day tends to involve price-change processing, document update, distribution, and inquiry support — applying approved price changes to master lists, updating customer-facing or internal pricing documents, distributing updates to sales teams or customer service, fielding pricing questions that come back. Price-list currency and accuracy are the operating measures.

The friction often lies in the change-management coordination — price changes touch sales, customer service, billing, and sometimes regulators or contracts, and the lister coordinates across them. Variance across employers shapes the work: catalog-driven businesses run high-volume pricing operations; service businesses run smaller pricing maintenance with more contract-specific complexity.

This work tends to fit folks who find satisfaction in structured maintenance work and the small puzzles of pricing-rule application. The trade-off is the invisibility when pricing is current — the role surfaces mainly when an outdated price produces a customer dispute or margin error.

RelationshipsModerate
SupportModerate
IndependenceModerate
Working ConditionsLower
AchievementLower
RecognitionLower
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Career Paths

Where this role sits in the broader career landscape — and where it can take you.

$239K$179K$119K$60K$0KLower paying387 metro areas, sorted by salary level
All experience levels1
This level's estimated range
INDUSTRIES PAYING ABOVE AVERAGE
1 BLS OEWS May 2024 covers all Price Listers (SOC 43-3021.00), not just this title · BEA RPP 2023
* Top salaries exceed this figure. BLS caps reported wages at ~$240K to protect individual privacy in high-earning roles.
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The Broader Landscape

Roles like this one sit within a broader occupational category. The numbers below reflect that full landscape — helpful for context, but your specific experience will depend on level, specialty, and where you work.

$36K–$65K
Salary Range
10th – 90th percentile
418K
U.S. Employment
-0.4%
10yr Growth
42K
Annual Openings

How this category is changing

$64K$61K$59K$56K$53K201920202021202220232024$53K$64K
BLS OEWS May 2024 · BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034

Skills & Requirements

Reading ComprehensionMathematicsSpeakingTime ManagementMonitoringCritical ThinkingActive ListeningWritingJudgment and Decision MakingComplex Problem Solving
O*NET OnLine · Bureau of Labor Statistics
43-3021.00

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Federal data: BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics (May 2024) · BLS Employment Projections · O*NET OnLine
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