Throughline

Business and finance

Human Resources Specialist in San Francisco

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

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 61 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 2026-09-01 · 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.

$61,500
10th percentile
$103,140
median
$171,420
90th percentile

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

Verkada · Anthropic · Astranis · Brex · SpaceX · Harvey · Mach Industries · Scale AI · Sierra · 1X · Cursor · Decagon · Mercor · Notion · OpenAI · Perplexity · Zoox · Artech Information System · Chime · Collabera · Faire · Fanatics Commerce · Figma · Harbinger Motors · Intuitive Surgical · Mission Healthcare · Physical Intelligence · Robinhood · SBT Global

The same role elsewhere

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