Operations and sales

Administrative Services Manager in the United States

51 postings read · sampled 2026-10-01 · source ats · 34 employers · largest 12% of it

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 51 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

Bachelor's DegreeAccredited institution
12%
6 of 51 postingsAccredited institution →
PMPProject Management Institute
8%
4 of 51 postings$555 exam · fee checked 2026-08~200 hrs prepProject Management Institute →

What it costs

Exam and application fees plus typical self-study hours. Almost nobody needs every credential on this list — start with the top line.

Most-asked-for, on its own

$555PMP · ~200 hrs

asked for in 4 of 51 postings — 8%

If you earned all 1 of them

$555

fees checked 2026-08

200 hrs

200 hours — about 20 weeks at 10 hrs/wk

Not in the total: Bachelor's Degree — cost varies by institution.

Lower signal for this role

Credentials that barely appeared in this sample. That is not a claim they are worthless — plenty are valuable for a different job, a different city, or a promotion later. It is a claim that employers here mostly did not ask.

Associate DegreeAccredited institution
2%
1 of 51 postingsAccredited institution →
Master's DegreeAccredited institution
2%
1 of 51 postingsAccredited institution →
OSHA 10-HourOSHA Training Institute
2%
1 of 51 postings$90 exam · fee checked 2026-08~10 hrs prepOSHA Training Institute →
Secret Security ClearanceU.S. Government (DCSA)
2%
1 of 51 postingsU.S. Government (DCSA) →

What the official taxonomy says

O*NET surveys people already doing this job. That describes who got hired over a long window, not what employers are asking for now — where it disagrees with the counts above, the counts are the more current answer.

Education reported by people doing this job

34%reported high school diploma or equivalent

High school diploma or equivalent34%
Bachelor’s degree24%
Post-secondary certificate13%

Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed. Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.

O*NET 11-3012.00 · pulled 2026-10-01 · percentages are of surveyed workers, each rounded separately, so they need not total 100

What it pays

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. A different survey from the postings above, so the two do not share a sample.

$67,100

10th percentile

$114,130

median

$207,720

90th percentile

Every credential above costs $555 — about 1 day's pay at the median.

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

SpaceX · Walmart · Anduril Industries · Cogent Talent Solutions · Equinox · HelloFresh · Success Academy Charter Schools · Ursa Major Technologies · 1X · Able Services (ABM) · Atlas Energy Solutions · Baseten · BAYADA Home Health Care · Boyd Gaming · Carta · Collabera · CookUnity · Curaleaf · Decagon · Dental365 · Divergent Technologies · Elite Dental Partners · Figma · Flexport · Office Depot · OpenAI · PSI CRO · Range · Redwood Materials · Skydio · Stripe · Torc Robotics · vTech Solution · Wynn Resorts

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