IT Certification Salary Increases 2025

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A consolidation of 2025 salary data on how much specific IT certifications raise pay, drawing on Global Knowledge, Foote Partners, CompTIA, and Dice surveys. It reports increases of roughly 8,000-45,000 dollars a year, led by CISSP, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Google Cloud Professional, and CKA/CKAD, with entry-level credentials like A+ and AWS Cloud Practitioner adding 5,000-12,000, and breaks the numbers down by career stage, industry, geographic market, and the compounding portfolio effect, noting the largest gains come from experience-gated certifications.

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1. 11 July 2026 · corrected by Melik Can Sariyer

   2 flagged issues verified: a quote attributed to an anonymous 'IT labor market researcher' had no verifiable source and was de-attributed to plain prose; a CISM premium table row showed a confusing identical-bound range (+$25,000-$25,000) which, while arithmetically derivable from the source ranges, was corrected to a clean single figure to remove the appearance of a data error.

   What the page claimed

   Article included a blockquote attributed to an anonymous 'IT labor market researcher' with no verifiable source, and a senior-level CISM premium table row showing a confusing identical-bound range of '+$25,000-$25,000'.

   What was corrected

   De-attributed the quote to plain prose (removing the anonymous attribution while keeping the substantive point about correlation vs. causation in certification salary data), and cleaned up the CISM premium row to a clean single figure of '+$25,000' instead of the confusing identical-bound range.

   Why: Applied fact-check corrections: de-attributed an unverifiable anonymous quote and cleaned up a confusing salary premium table cell.

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