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title: "Business Continuity Planner"
description: "Develop, maintain, or implement business continuity and disaster recovery strategies and solutions, including risk assessments, business impact analyses…"
canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/careers/business-continuity-planner"
last-updated: "2026-10-09T10:57:55.138Z"
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# Business Continuity Planner

**Category:** Business and Financial Operations · **SOC code:** 13-1199 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 13-1199.04

Develop, maintain, or implement business continuity and disaster recovery strategies and solutions, including risk assessments, business impact analyses, strategy selection, and documentation of business continuity and disaster recovery procedures. Plan, conduct, and debrief regular mock-disaster exercises to test the adequacy of existing plans and strategies, updating procedures and plans regularly. Act as a coordinator for continuity efforts after a disruption event.

Also advertised as: Business Continuity Administrator (Business Continuity Admin); Business Continuity Analyst; Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Consultant; Business Continuity Consultant; Business Continuity Coordinator; Business Continuity Professional; Business Continuity Specialist; Business System Consultant.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $83,050 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $39.93/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $47,880 to $150,010, with the middle half between $62,640 and $114,010
- **Total US employment:** 1,087,090
- **Typical entry education:** Bachelor's
- **Preparation required:** Medium preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +3.9% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 98,700 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 16/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure

## Pay

National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 1,087,090 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $47,880 |
| 25th | $62,640 |
| 50th (median) | $83,050 |
| 75th | $114,010 |
| 90th | $150,010 |
| Mean (average) | $93,970 |

### Pay by state

The 15 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there.

| State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DC | $108,160 | $98,416 | 37,790 |
| MD | $101,500 | $96,704 | 39,820 |
| WA | $100,360 | $93,783 | 51,650 |
| AL | $100,240 | $112,854 | 6,990 |
| DE | $95,040 | $95,223 | 1,600 |
| AK | $94,740 | $92,557 | 2,020 |
| OK | $93,640 | $106,599 | 5,700 |
| MA | $93,270 | $88,193 | 17,910 |
| HI | $92,620 | $84,238 | 4,030 |
| CO | $92,520 | $89,780 | 45,670 |
| NJ | $91,060 | $83,691 | 34,210 |
| GU | $88,610 | No BEA price parity | 470 |
| RI | $88,130 | $86,165 | 2,240 |
| CA | $87,570 | $79,091 | 155,000 |
| CT | $85,530 | $82,550 | 5,630 |

39 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 54 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/business-continuity-planner/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/business-continuity-planner.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 1,157,600 in the 2025–2035 base year to 1,202,300 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 44,700 jobs, or +3.9%. About as fast as average: 3.9% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 98,700 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2025–2035.

## How to get in

- **Typical entry education:** Bachelor's degree (BLS Employment Projections).
- **Preparation level:** Medium preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** None.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** None.

### Education people in this job actually hold

O\*NET surveys incumbents, so this distribution describes who is in the job today and can differ from the BLS entry requirement above.

| Education level | Share of workers |
| --- | --- |
| Bachelor's Degree | 47.8% |
| Post-Baccalaureate Certificate | 17.4% |
| Master's Degree | 13.0% |
| Some College Courses | 8.7% |
| High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED) | 4.4% |
| Post-Secondary Certificate | 4.4% |

## What the work involves

- Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance.
- Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster.
- Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives.
- Review existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans.
- Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements.
- Write reports to summarize testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations.
- Create or administer training and awareness presentations or materials.
- Create scenarios to reestablish operations from various types of business disruptions.

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Active Listening — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Learning Strategies — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Transferable skills

These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site.

- Complex Problem Solving — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Systems Analysis — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Systems Evaluation — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Social Perceptiveness — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Instructing — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Time Management — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- English Language — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Public Safety and Security — importance 3.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administration and Management — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Customer and Personal Service — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Computers and Electronics — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Education and Training — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Problem Sensitivity — importance 4.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Inductive Reasoning — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Expression — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Expression — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

## Who it suits

O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Enterprising (E), Conventional (C), Investigative (I).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| E — Enterprising | 5.23 |
| C — Conventional | 5.06 |
| I — Investigative | 4.39 |
| S — Social | 3.06 |
| R — Realistic | 2.00 |
| A — Artistic | 1.66 |

### Personality fit

These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job.

| Type | Fit score (0–100) |
| --- | --- |
| ESTJ | 76.4 |
| ENTJ | 70.9 |
| ISTJ | 66.4 |
| ESFJ | 63.4 |
| INTJ | 57.2 |

Best-fitting types: ESTJ.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [Emergency Management Director](https://nuecareer.com/careers/emergency-management-director) — median $93,330
- [Project Management Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/project-management-specialist) — median $102,320
- [Information Technology Project Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/information-technology-project-manager) — median $116,580
- [Financial Risk Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-risk-specialist) — median $117,330
- [Compliance Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/compliance-manager) — median $141,900
- [Security Management Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/security-management-specialist) — median $83,050
- [Security Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/security-manager) — median $106,660
- [Information Security Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/information-security-analyst) — median $129,180
- [Information Security Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/information-security-engineer) — median $116,580
- [Business Intelligence Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/business-intelligence-analyst) — median $120,230

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2025–2035. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

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