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Construction Manager in the United States

66 postings read · sampled 2026-10-01 · source ats · 23 employers · largest 24% of it

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 66 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

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
$180OSHA 30-Hour Construction · ~30 hrs
asked for in 4 of 66 postings — 6%
If you earned all 1 of them
$180
fees checked 2026-08
30 hrs
30 hours — about 3 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.

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
40%reported bachelor’s degree
  • Bachelor’s degree40%
  • High school diploma or equivalent15%
  • Post-secondary certificate15%

Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

O*NET 11-9021.00 · 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.

$69,690
10th percentile
$114,990
median
$189,440
90th percentile

Every credential above costs $180 — less than a day's pay at the median.

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

SpaceX · Latitude Inc · Cogent Talent Solutions · Energy Project Solutions · 360 IT Professionals · Anduril Industries · City of New York · Redwood Materials · SpawGlass · Collabera · SBT Global · 1X · Anthropic · CookUnity · DN Tanks (DN LLC) · HelloFresh · Luminis Health · Otterbein SeniorLife · PROCON · Qualdoc · Relativity Space · Scout Motors · The Mural Group

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