Every year, Purchasing Magazine conducts its widely-watched purchasing salary survey. This year’s results aren’t available yet, but editor Susan Avery gave everyone a sneak preview of the results in a post on their social networking site, PurchasingBizConnect.

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In this post, Susan reveals that the three certifications included on the survey definitely mattered when it comes to earning power in the purchasing field. Susan writes that purchasing professionals who have earned the SPSM^® Certification earn 7.7% more than purchasing professionals who have not.

Even the certification with the lowest salary differential – the CPIM with a 5.6% premium – was still very healthy. With such a direct financial benefit of certification and the low cost to actually become certified, it leaves me wondering why every single purchasing professional in the world doesn’t pursue a certification.

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