Business and finance

Human Resources Manager in the United States

29 postings read · sampled 2026-09-01 · source ats

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 29 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

Bachelor's DegreeAccredited institution
10%
3 of 29 postingsAccredited institution →
CAPMProject Management Institute
3%
1 of 29 postings$300 exam · fee checked 2026-08~100 hrs prepProject Management Institute →
Master's DegreeAccredited institution
3%
1 of 29 postingsAccredited institution →
PHRHRCI
3%
1 of 29 postings$500 exam · fee checked 2026-08~120 hrs prepHRCI →
PMPProject Management Institute
3%
1 of 29 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

$300CAPM · ~100 hrs

asked for in 1 of 29 postings — 3%

If you earned all 3 of them

$1,355

fees checked 2026-08

420 hrs

420 hours — about 42 weeks at 10 hrs/wk

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

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

82%reported bachelor’s degree

Bachelor’s degree82%
Post-baccalaureate certificate9%
Post-secondary certificate5%

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

O*NET 11-3121.00 · pulled 2026-09-01 · percentages are of surveyed workers, each rounded separately, so they need not total 100

This sample is small enough that one posting moves any percentage by more than a couple of points, so we are not calling anything low-signal here. Read the numbers above as a direction, not a measurement.

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.

$88,200

10th percentile

$149,280

median

$267,810

90th percentile

Every credential above costs $1,355 — about 2 days' pay at the median.

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

HelloFresh · Asana · Bombas · Brex · Coinbase · Crestwood Behavioral Health · Databricks · Deegit Inc · Fanatics Commerce · FanDuel · Figma · GitLab · Headway · Innophos · J&J Snack Foods · Lucid Motors · Lyft · McWane Inc · O-I (Owens-Illinois) · OpenAI · Range · Scale AI · SoFi · Success Academy Charter Schools · System Canada Technologies · Verkada · Zoox