I hired in as a scheduler about a year ago, pay wasn't bad but def not great, but I'm only 23 so they kind of low balled me. But that just depends on who you work for. It's not the most fun thing I've ever done I can tell you that much. lol I work for a contractor so as far as production goes I don't deal with that much, unless coordinating with them during a shut down that we are involved in. I had zero training going into it, but after about 3 weeks of shadowing I was able to do it on my own. Basically all your information that you would have to use came from other people/contractors etc. So yea, it kind of seems like they don't actually "do" anything. I would say it's def a good step towards management, within 9 months I've moved up to a planner, due to a previous planner taking a new postion.
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