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Business and finance

Management Analyst in Albany

25 postings read · sampled 2026-10-01 · source ats · 15 employers · largest 24% of it

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 25 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

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
$200Salesforce Certified Administrator · ~100 hrs
asked for in 5 of 25 postings — 20%
If you earned all 3 of them
$2,990
fees checked 2026-08
800 hrs
800 hours — over a year at 10 hrs/wk

Not in the total: Master's Degree — cost varies by institution; Bachelor'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
57%reported bachelor’s degree
  • Bachelor’s degree57%
  • Master’s degree24%
  • Some college, no degree10%

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

O*NET 13-1111.00 · 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.

$60,010
10th percentile
$83,690
median
$129,370
90th percentile

Every credential above costs $2,990 — about 9 days' pay at the median.

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

City of New York · Ramp · Anthropic · Gusto · Ridgeline · 360 IT Professionals · Charlie Health · Collabera · Infojini Inc · Robinhood · Stem Xpert · Stripe · System Canada Technologies · USM · vTech Solution

The same role elsewhere

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