Business and finance
Project Management Specialist in New York
82 postings read · sampled 2026-10-01 · source ats · 22 employers · largest 24% of it
What employers actually ask for
Credentials named in the 82 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.
- Master's DegreeAccredited institution7%6 of 82 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.
- Security+CompTIA1%
- Certified Six Sigma Green BeltAmerican Society for Quality1%
- PMPProject Management Institute5%
- Certified Six Sigma Black BeltAmerican Society for Quality1%
- CISMISACA2%
- CISSPISC22%
- Bachelor's DegreeAccredited institution4%3 of 82 postingsAccredited 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.
- Bachelor’s degree64%
- Associate’s degree or other 2-year degree12%
- High school diploma or equivalent6%
Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
O*NET 13-1082.00 · 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.
Who was hiring
Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.
Anthropic · City of New York · Datadog · Figma · Success Academy Charter Schools · Scale AI · Harvey · 360 IT Professionals · Betterment · Blink Health · Stripe · Decagon · Deegit Inc · Duolingo · Gusto · Lyft · Peloton · Ramp · Reddit · Robinhood · Toast · Walmart
The same role elsewhere
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