Business and finance

Human Resources Specialist in the United States

248 postings read · sampled 2026-10-01 · source ats · 98 employers · largest 10% of it

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 248 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

Bachelor's DegreeAccredited institution
8%
19 of 248 postingsAccredited 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.

CDL-AState DMV / FMCSA
0%
1 of 248 postings$200 exam · fee checked 2026-08~160 hrs prepState DMV / FMCSA →
Master's DegreeAccredited institution
1%
2 of 248 postingsAccredited institution →
SHRM-CPSociety for Human Resource Management
1%
2 of 248 postings$510 exam · fee checked 2026-08~120 hrs prepSociety for Human Resource Management →
PHRHRCI
1%
3 of 248 postings$500 exam · fee checked 2026-08~120 hrs prepHRCI →
TS/SCIU.S. Government (DCSA)
1%
3 of 248 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

47%reported bachelor’s degree

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

O*NET 13-1071.00 · 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.

$47,180

10th percentile

$75,940

median

$128,720

90th percentile

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

Anduril Industries · Stripe · SpaceX · Applied Intuition · Anthropic · Ramp · Datadog · Lucid Motors · MongoDB · Sierra · Verkada · Agility Robotics · Astranis · Databricks · Divergent Technologies · Harvey · Mercor · Perplexity · Relativity Space · Skydio · Allen Control Systems · Cogent Talent Solutions · Etched · Figma · Notion · OpenAI · Range · 1X · Abridge · Artech Information System · Ask IT Consulting · Braze · Clover Health · Cognition · Coinbase · Collabera · Decagon · ElevenLabs · Flexport · Gusto · Headway · Integrated Resources Inc · Linear · NielsenIQ · Path Robotics · Physical Intelligence · Redwood Materials · Success Academy Charter Schools · Torc Robotics · Zoox · Action Property Management · Antora Energy · Atlas Energy Solutions · Baseten · BAYADA Home Health Care · Blink Health · Bosch · Boyd Gaming · Brex · Browserbase · California Creative Solutions Inc · Chandos · Chime · City of New York · CookUnity · DN Tanks (DN LLC) · Duolingo · Everlaw · Faire · Fanatics Commerce · Harbinger Motors · Instawork · Intuitive Surgical · Klaviyo · Latitude Inc · Mark43 · McWane Inc · Morgan & Morgan · Nuro · Oscar Health · Pierpoint · PS Logistics · PsiQuantum · Rowan · Saronic · SBT Global · Scale AI · SkillSource · Stem Xpert · System Canada Technologies · Thrive Market · Trucordia · Vercel · Via · vTech Solution · WorkOS · Zip · Zocdoc