Human Resources Manager

Career Area: Human Resources

Occupation Group: Human Resources Specialists

Salary

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An example would be the 25th percentile, 25 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 75 percent earn more than the estimated wage value. At the 75th percentile, 75 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 25 percent earn more than the estimated wage value.

A typical Human Resources Manager earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $66,203

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $67,957

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Manages human resources functions for a company or organization, including the recruiting, hiring and training of employees. Works with executive management to develop and implement staffing and compensation plans, and works to attract and retain qualified employees. Oversees training and development initiatives. Manages compensation and benefits structure and provides information to employees. Monitors compliance with employment-related regulations. Implements company policies and deals with staffing or disciplinary issues as needed.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Human Resources Manager is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Microsoft Office: Microsoft Office is an office suite of applications, servers, and services developed by Microsoft.
• Microsoft Excel: Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.
• Organizational Skills: Experience with a systematic process of structuring, integrating, co-ordinating task goals, and activities to resources in order to attain objectives.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Human Resource Management: Human Resource Management (HRM or HR) is the management of human resources.
• Employee Relations: Industrial relations is a multidisciplinary field that studies the employment relationship.
• Onboarding: Onboarding, also known as organizational socialization, refers to the mechanism through which new employees acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviors to become effective organizational members and insiders.
• Performance Management: Performance management (PM) includes activities which ensure that goals are consistently being met in an effective and efficient manner.
• Human Resource Information System (HRIS): A Human Resource Management System or HRIS (Human Resource Information System) is a form of HR software that combines a number of systems and processes to ensure the easy management of a business's employees and data.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Human Resources Manager that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Workforce Planning: Workforce planning is a continual process used to align the needs and priorities of the organization with those of its workforce to ensure it can meet its legislative, regulatory, service and production requirements and organizational objectives.
• Employee Training: Employee Training is to improve current or future employee performance by increasing an employee's ability to perform through learning, usually by changing the employee's attitude or increasing his or her skills and knowledge.
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12101) is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability.
• Organizational Analysis: Organizational analysis or more commonly Industrial analysis is the process of reviewing the development, work environment, personnel, and operation of a business or another type of association.
• Leadership Development: Leadership development expands the capacity of individuals to perform in leadership roles within organizations.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Human Resources Manager
• Human Resources Administrator
• Manager, Human Resources
• Human Resources
• Senior Human Resources Manager

Similar Occupations

If you are interested in exploring similar occupations, you may want to research the following job titles:

• Director of Human Resources
• Human Resources Consultant
• Human Resources Specialist
• Staffing Manager
• Director of Compensation / Benefits