Business and finance

Human Resources Specialist in the United States

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

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 224 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

Bachelor's DegreeAccredited institution
7%
16 of 224 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 224 postings$200 exam · fee checked 2026-08~160 hrs prepState DMV / FMCSA →
Master's DegreeAccredited institution
0%
1 of 224 postingsAccredited institution →
PHRHRCI
0%
1 of 224 postings$500 exam · fee checked 2026-08~120 hrs prepHRCI →
SHRM-CPSociety for Human Resource Management
0%
1 of 224 postings$510 exam · fee checked 2026-08~120 hrs prepSociety for Human Resource Management →
TS/SCIU.S. Government (DCSA)
1%
3 of 224 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 2026-09-01 · 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 · SpaceX · Verkada · Ramp · Stripe · Figma · Sierra · Anthropic · Applied Intuition · Astranis · Brex · Datadog · Etched · Notion · Skydio · Allen Control Systems · Blink Health · Databricks · Divergent Technologies · Harvey · Mach Industries · Mercor · NielsenIQ · OpenAI · Perplexity · Scale AI · 1X · Artech Information System · Ask IT Consulting · Bosch · Boyd Gaming · Braze · Cognition · Coinbase · Collabera · Cursor · Decagon · ElevenLabs · Headway · Integrated Resources Inc · Klaviyo · Linear · McWane Inc · MongoDB · Range · Relativity Space · Scout Motors · Zoox · Agility Robotics · Baseten · California Creative Solutions Inc · Chime · City of New York · Clover Health · Cogent Talent Solutions · Comprehensive Mobile Care · Duolingo · Elastic · Equinox · Faire · Fanatics Commerce · Flexport · Harbinger Motors · Instawork · Intuitive Surgical · Latitude Inc · Lucid Motors · Lyra Health · Mission Healthcare · Nuro · Physical Intelligence · Pierpoint · PS Logistics · Redwood Materials · Resend · Robinhood · Saronic · SBT Global · Sila Services · Skild AI · SkillSource · Stem Xpert · Sweetgreen · System Canada Technologies · Turing · Via · vTech Solution · Westgate Resorts · WorkOS · Yotpo · Zip · Zocdoc · Zum Services