PMI Project Management Salary Survey

Knowing your earning potential is an invaluable asset when you want to leverage opportunities at your current job, invest in skills to raise your marketability, and plan the next phase of your career. It's also critical for organizations, which are competing for top talent as the demand for project managers grows.

Discover your earning potential with PMI's latest project management salary survey.

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  The survey for the PMI^® Project Management Salary Survey — Eighth Edition is currently being conducted among PMI members and credential holders who are randomly selected to participate. To assure confidentiality, we have engaged PeriscopeIQ, a strategy and compensation specialist firm, to conduct the research.

PMI^® Project Management Salary Survey — Seventh Edition

Created and conducted by PMI's market research team, the PMI^® Project Management Salary Survey — Seventh Edition provides the most comprehensive look yet at compensation in the global project management field, measuring salaries across eight major position description levels in 29 countries. The Seventh Edition, conducted in 2011 is based on self-reported data from more than 30,000 project management practitioners around the world.

Represented countries include Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and United States.

The full report of the salary survey features:

• The responses of more than 30,000 practitioners in 29 countries.
• Cross-tabulations of salary data by eight positions and 15 demographic variables.
• Reported salary increases over the past year.
• Expected salary increases for the next year.
• Information on benefit packages, work environments and available global project management career paths.

Because of sampling constraints, salary information is not available for all positions in every geographic location.

Key demographics include:

• Country of Employment
• Position Description
• Years Work Experience
• Years Worked in Key Techniques
• Years Worked in Project Management
• Highest Formal Education Level Obtained
• Degree In Project Management
• PMP^® Status
• Training Per Year
• Gender
• Department/Function
• Industry
• Type of Project
• Number of Employees in Entire Organization
• Average Project Team Size
• Typical Project Budget

Get the salary survey

The PMI^® Project Management Salary Survey — Seventh Edition is available at the PMI Marketplace. The full report costs US$200.00.

PMI members have complementary access to the report, as well as our self-directed salary survey query, which lets you compare salary data by position and geographic location. Log in to PMI.org above to access both of these features.

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