Throughline

Business and finance

Human Resources Specialist in New York

31 postings read · sampled 2026-10-01 · source ats · 22 employers · largest 16% of it

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 31 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

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

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.

$58,140
10th percentile
$89,780
median
$155,480
90th percentile

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

Ramp · Datadog · Anthropic · ElevenLabs · Harvey · Baseten · Braze · Brex · City of New York · CookUnity · Everlaw · Figma · Gusto · Mark43 · Mercor · Morgan & Morgan · Notion · Oscar Health · Scale AI · Success Academy Charter Schools · Vercel · Via

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