Freight Brokerage Location
- According to a survey of 219 freight brokers, the most popular locations to start or open a new freight brokerage are: Chicago, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Nashville, Tennessee; and Austin, Texas.
- The three most expensive cities to locate a freight brokerage are: New York, Seattle and Dallas.
- The three least expensive cities to open a freight brokerage are: Nashville, Northeastern Arkansas and Birmingham, Alabama.
Freight Broker Compensation
- The national median base salary for entry-level freight brokers is $43,285 according to data collected from LinkedIn and Glassdoor.
- According to a survey of 402 freight brokers, the median base salary for entry-level freight brokers is $40,000.
- Freight brokers in the same survey had a median commission rate of 13% on gross margins.
Freight Broker Talent
- The most popular (top choice by two out of three freight brokers surveyed) definition of talent is defined as a combination of:
- Tenacity
- Hustle
- Persistence
- Cold calling and networking are still the most popular methods for generating sales, even with the wave of automation that is transforming the freight brokerage industry.
SONAR offers proprietary data that comes from actual load tenders, electronic logging devices and transportation management systems, along with dozens of third-party global freight and logistics-related index providers like TCA Benchmarking, Freightos, ACT, Drewry and DTN.
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