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Community Planner

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

A Community Planner plans and designs projects that maintain or improve the quality of life in a community. Addresses specific transportation, economic development, housing and environmental issues. Develops plans that address aesthetic as well as technical concerns. Identifies community goals and anticipates the future impact of development.

Job Outlook

There were 128 Community Planner job postings in North Carolina in the past year and 2493 in the United States.

In combination with other careers in the Urban / Transportation Planner industry, which includes the Community Planner career, the following graph shows the number of people employed for each year since 2016:

Salary

Many new Community Planner jobs have salaries estimated to be in the following ranges, based on the requirements and responsibilities listed in job postings from the past year.

National

The average estimated salary in the United States for this career, based on job postings in the past year, is $90,652.

State

The average estimated salary in North Carolina for this career, based on job postings in the past year, is $90,652.

Percentiles represent the percentage that is lower than the value. For example, 25% of estimated salaries for Community Planner postings in the United States in the past year were lower than $70,106.

Education and Experience

Posted Community Planner jobs typically require the following level of education. The numbers below are based on job postings in the United States from the past year. Not all job postings list education requirements.

Education LevelPercentage
Associate's Degree0%
Bachelor's Degree48.98%
Master's Degree26.96%
Doctoral Degree7.26%
Other8.22%

Posted Community Planner jobs typically require the following number of years of experience. The numbers below are based on job postings in the United States from the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Years of ExperiencePercentage
0 to 2 years53.44%
3 to 5 years32.2%
6 to 8 years7.53%
9+ years6.83%

Skills

Below are listings of the most common general and specialized skills Community Planner positions expect applicants to have as well as the most common skills that distinguish individuals from their peers. The percentage of job postings that specifically mention each skill is also listed.

Baseline Skills

A skill that is required across a broad range of occupations, including this one.

  • Planning (80.99%)
  • Management (42.8%)
  • Communication (33.37%)
  • Coordinating (31.89%)
  • Operations (28.8%)
  • Research (24.47%)
  • Leadership (24.35%)
  • Writing (22.86%)
  • Microsoft Office (17.77%)
  • Presentations (16.57%)

Defining Skills

A core skill for this occupation, it occurs frequently in job postings.

  • Community Planning (20.81%)
  • Project Management (26.44%)
  • Urban Affairs (7.36%)

Necessary Skills

A skill that is requested frequently in this occupation but isn’t specific to it.

  • Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) (14.29%)
  • Policy Development (3.07%)
  • Geographic Information Systems (13.83%)
  • Legal Hearings (2.84%)
  • Data Analysis (11.03%)
  • Data Collection (8.19%)
  • Economic Development (8.71%)
  • Project Planning (11.45%)
  • Emergency Management (17.09%)
  • Public Administration (15.6%)
  • Urban Planning (15.41%)
  • Economics (16.76%)
  • Finance (9.03%)
  • Community Development (14.9%)
  • Conflict Resolution (4.98%)
  • Geography (12.1%)
  • Environmental Planning (3.77%)
  • Land Use (8.47%)
  • Economic Analysis (7.91%)
  • Political Sciences (10.75%)
  • Regional Planning (12.66%)
  • Land-Use Planning (7.82%)
  • Landscape Architecture (15.83%)
  • Public Policies (6.33%)
  • Sociology (10.71%)
  • Transportation Planning (6.33%)
  • Urban Design (6.38%)

Alternative Job Titles

Sometimes employers post jobs with Community Planner skills but a different job title. Some common alternative job titles include:

  • Planner
  • Transition Coordinator
  • Emergency Management Specialist
  • Exercise Planner
  • Cyberspace Joint Operations Planner
  • Military Planner
  • Intelligence Planner
  • Interdisciplinary Engineer Architect
  • Extension Educator

Similar Occupations

If you are interested in exploring occupations with similar skills, you may want to research the following job titles. Note that we only list occupations that have at least one corresponding NC State Online and Distance Education program.

Common Employers

Here are the employers that have posted the most Community Planner jobs in the past year along with how many they have posted.

United States

  • FEMA (233)
  • United States Navy (124)
  • United States Department of Defense (116)
  • Booz Allen Hamilton (93)
  • Vaya Health (71)
  • American Red Cross (65)
  • United States Department of Homeland Security (48)
  • State of Minnesota (39)
  • Naval Facilities Engineering Command (36)
  • Planate Management Group (29)

North Carolina

  • Vaya Health (71)
  • FEMA (10)
  • American Red Cross (6)
  • City of Durham (3)
  • East Carolina University (2)
  • United States Department of Defense (2)
  • United States Department of Homeland Security (2)
  • Lenoir County (2)
  • Joint Activities (1)
  • Bentley Planning & Project Management (1)

NC State Programs Relevant to this Career

If you are interested in preparing for a career in this field, the following NC State Online and Distance Education programs offer a great place to start!