certification
Salesforce Certified Administrator
Salesforce
$200
exam fee · checked 2026-08
100 hrs
100 hours — about 10 weeks at 10 hrs/wk
1 yr
renewal cycle — this is a recurring cost
Where it is actually asked for
- Management Analyst in Albany5%1 of 19 postings
- Management Analyst in Buffalo5%1 of 19 postings
Where it barely came up
It appeared in these samples, but rarely. If one of these is the job you want, this credential is probably not the thing standing between you and it.
- Management Analyst in Austin5%1 of 21 postings
- Management Analyst in Dallas–Fort Worth5%1 of 21 postings
- Management Analyst in Houston5%1 of 21 postings
- Management Analyst in San Antonio5%1 of 21 postings
- Sales Manager in Chicago5%1 of 21 postings
- Management Analyst in New York4%1 of 23 postings
- Computer Systems Analyst in San Francisco4%1 of 25 postings
- Computer Systems Analyst (national)2%2 of 106 postings
- Management Analyst (national)1%5 of 335 postings
- Management Analyst in San Francisco1%1 of 74 postings
- Sales Manager (national)1%2 of 306 postings
- Network and Computer Systems Administrator (national)1%2 of 322 postings
- General and Operations Manager (national)0%1 of 303 postings
- Computer and Information Systems Manager (national)0%1 of 343 postings
These percentages describe the samples we read, listed above with their sizes and dates. They are not a statement about the whole labour market, and absence from this page means we have no evidence either way — not that the credential is worthless. How we know →