Human Resources Managers
Business, Management and AdministrationO*NET 11-3121.00United States
Plan, direct, or coordinate human resources activities and staff of an organization.
- Median annual earnings
- $148,323
- Projected change
- +7.8%
- Typical education
- Bachelor's degree
- Employment
- 234.61K jobs
50th percentile, United States
2025 to 2035
90.9% of the workforce
Growing to 252.85K by 2035
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The work
What human resources managers do
Tasks reported for this occupation, ordered by how often they come up in the role.
- Serve as a link between management and employees by handling questions, interpreting and administering contracts and helping resolve work-related problems.
- Plan, direct, supervise, and coordinate work activities of subordinates and staff relating to employment, compensation, labor relations, and employee relations.
- Perform difficult staffing duties, including dealing with understaffing, refereeing disputes, firing employees, and administering disciplinary procedures.
- Represent organization at personnel-related hearings and investigations.
- Advise managers on organizational policy matters, such as equal employment opportunity and sexual harassment, and recommend needed changes.
- Negotiate bargaining agreements and help interpret labor contracts.
- Plan and conduct new employee orientation to foster positive attitude toward organizational objectives.
- Identify staff vacancies and recruit, interview, and select applicants.
- Analyze and modify compensation and benefits policies to establish competitive programs and ensure compliance with legal requirements.
- Analyze statistical data and reports to identify and determine causes of personnel problems and develop recommendations for improvement of organization's personnel policies and practices.
- Investigate and report on industrial accidents for insurance carriers.
- Administer compensation, benefits, and performance management systems, and safety and recreation programs.
- Prepare and follow budgets for personnel operations.
- Maintain records and compile statistical reports concerning personnel-related data such as hires, transfers, performance appraisals, and absenteeism rates.
- Provide current and prospective employees with information about policies, job duties, working conditions, wages, opportunities for promotion, and employee benefits.
- Plan, organize, direct, control, or coordinate the personnel, training, or labor relations activities of an organization.
- Conduct exit interviews to identify reasons for employee termination.
- Allocate human resources, ensuring appropriate matches between personnel.
- Analyze training needs to design employee development, language training, and health and safety programs.
- Oversee the evaluation, classification, and rating of occupations and job positions.
- Prepare personnel forecast to project employment needs.
- Study legislation, arbitration decisions, and collective bargaining contracts to assess industry trends.
- Develop or administer special projects in areas such as pay equity, savings bond programs, day care, and employee awards.
Pay and outlook
What the job pays and where it is heading
Annual earnings range
Reported earnings by percentile, United States
- 10th percentile
- $87,333
- 25th percentile
- $110,380
- 50th percentile
- $148,323
- 75th percentile
- $198,658
- 90th percentile
- $269,125
The gold marker shows the median. Half earn more than $148,323 and half earn less.
Employment outlook
2025 to 2035 projection
+7.8%faster than average
2025234,610 jobs
2035 projected252,849 jobs
18,239 more positions over the decade, before replacement hiring.
Preparation
Education levels
What people currently working in the career hold. These are not entry requirements.
- Bachelor's degree
- 90.9%
- Certificate
- 4.6%
- Master's or Professional degree
- 4.6%
Skills
Skills employers ask for
Technical skills appearing most often in job postings for this occupation.
How the work gets done
Core competencies
Broad capabilities associated with strong performance in this occupation.
- Active Listening
- Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Management of Personnel Resources
- Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Reading Comprehension
- Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
- Speaking
- Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Writing
- Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Coordination
- Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Critical Thinking
- Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Active Learning
- Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Monitoring
- Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Social Perceptiveness
- Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Time Management
- Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Complex Problem Solving
- Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Systems Evaluation
- Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Negotiation
- Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Instructing
- Teaching others how to do something.
- Persuasion
- Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Learning Strategies
- Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Service Orientation
- Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Systems Analysis
- Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
In the market
Job titles and employers
Recent job postings in United StatesCommon job titles
- 01Human Resources Managers12,170 postings
- 02Human Resources Business Partners8,478 postings
- 03Directors of Human Resources6,573 postings
- 04Directors of Talent Acquisition2,124 postings
- 05Directors/Human Resources Business Partners1,636 postings
- 06Talent Acquisition Managers1,230 postings
- 07Workforce Managers944 postings
- 08Recruiting Managers815 postings
- 09Employee Relations Managers757 postings
- 10People Partners729 postings
- 11People Business Partners707 postings
- 12Vice Presidents of Human Resources650 postings
- 13Human Resources Partners518 postings
- 14Workforce Management Managers446 postings
- 15Human Resources Supervisors439 postings
- 16Workforce Development Managers419 postings
- 17HRIS Managers413 postings
- 18People and Culture Managers378 postings
- 19Directors of People and Culture351 postings
- 20Chief Human Resources Officers308 postings
Top employers
- 01Robert Half1,260 postings
- 02Amazon577 postings
- 03GE Aerospace568 postings
- 04General Motors449 postings
- 05PricewaterhouseCoopers373 postings
- 06Accenture326 postings
- 07Amentum282 postings
- 08Creative Financial Staffing236 postings
- 09Capital One225 postings
- 10KPMG205 postings
- 11Walmart202 postings
- 12Deloitte199 postings
- 13Ryder194 postings
- 14Beacon Hill Staffing Group189 postings
- 15Google187 postings
- 16CVS Health185 postings
- 17Staffmark183 postings
- 18Marriott International178 postings
- 19The Hertz Corporation178 postings
- 20Power Home Remodeling160 postings
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