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Project Coordinator

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What the numbers say about this work

Government occupation data for the role this maps to — Project Management Specialists (SOC 13-1082). This is planning context for the occupation, not a salary or a job this role guarantees you.

Median pay (occupation)
$102,320 / yr · $61,580 to $167,970 (10th–90th percentile)
Projected change (2024–34)
+5.6% · ~78.2k openings/yr
Typical entry education
Bachelor's degree

BLS OEWS — occupation-level, national BLS Employment Projections 2024–34 This role uses a broad O*NET-SOC/BLS occupation mapping. Treat salary, outlook, and task data as occupation-level evidence, not a guarantee for this exact job title.

What it pays by metro

The national median hides a wide geographic spread. Below is the occupation’s median in some of the highest-paying and largest-employment metros, adjusted for local prices — regional price-level context, not take-home pay or a salary this role guarantees you.

MetroNominal medianCost-adjusted
Kennewick, WA$125,940$125,841
San Jose, CA$135,120$122,366
Seattle, WA$130,380$117,319
San Francisco, CA$135,040$116,803
Washington, DC$127,030$116,665
Sacramento, CA$124,350$116,574

See all metros and how this is calculated → Sources: BLS OEWS (May 2025), occupation-level metro median ÷ BEA Regional Price Parities (2024, US=100).

What this work involves

The tasks the U.S. Department of Labor’s O*NET lists most central to this occupation — role-fit evidence to weigh against your background, not a measure of employer demand.

  • Assign duties or responsibilities to project personnel.
  • Communicate with key stakeholders to determine project requirements and objectives.
  • Confer with project personnel to identify and resolve problems.
  • Create project status presentations for delivery to customers or project personnel.
  • Develop or update project plans including information such as objectives, technologies, schedules, funding, and staffing.
  • Identify project needs such as resources, staff, or finances by reviewing project objectives and schedules.

O*NET — occupation-level

What employers ask for right now

The skills and certifications employers most often name in a sample of 104public job postings for this role. Treat it as a to-learn list — it’s dated hiring language, not a count of open jobs, demand, or salary.

Most-named skills

  • Agile 59
  • Project Management 56
  • Scrum 46
  • AWS 26
  • Azure 25
  • Problem solving 25
  • API 24
  • Linux 24
  • Python 23
  • GCP 21
  • Windows 20
  • macOS 20

Certifications named

  • PMP 39
  • CAPM 1
  • Security+ 1

Compare what employers ask across roles → Qualitative employer-language sample only; do not use as official demand, market-size, salary, or certification ROI evidence.

Certification decision support

Certifications mapped to Project Coordinator

Certifications mapped to this role from cited OEM target-role data and the RoleMath role mapping, ordered by relationship strength and then Difficulty Score. This is planning context — not a guarantee, not an employer requirement, and not a claim that any one certification is best for everyone. Your fit depends on your background; pay/outlook context is occupation-level on the role page.

Start here signalCertified Associate in Project Management25/100 · Foundational

Entry and starting signals

3 mapped

Lower-difficulty credentials that map to this role as starting points or foundation signals.

CredentialDifficultyCostRelationshipWhy it appears here
Certified Associate in Project ManagementProject Management Institute · foundation
25/100FoundationalCost not verifiedstrong signalCAPM is the more suitable PMI credential for early project-management routes.Official source
CompTIA Project+CompTIA · foundation
30/100Foundational$399 examstrong signalProject+ is a practical tech project coordination credential for early project roles.Official source
PMI-ACP - PMI Agile Certified PractitionerProject Management Institute · experienced
35/100ModerateCost not verifiedstrong signalPMI-ACP - PMI Agile Certified Practitioner maps to Project Coordinator as a strong role signal based on its cited track token:project management signal.Official source

Advanced or later-step credentials

9 mapped

Credentials that may matter after experience builds; they are not presented as first steps.

CredentialDifficultyCostRelationshipWhy it appears here
PMI-PBA - PMI Professional in Business AnalysisProject Management Institute · advanced
60/100HardCost not verifiedadvanced adjacentPMI-PBA - PMI Professional in Business Analysis maps to Project Coordinator as an advanced credential for progressing toward/within this role, not an entry signal.Official source
PMI-SP - PMI Scheduling ProfessionalProject Management Institute · advanced
60/100HardCost not verifiedadvanced adjacentPMI-SP - PMI Scheduling Professional maps to Project Coordinator as an advanced credential for progressing toward/within this role, not an entry signal.Official source
PfMP - Portfolio Management ProfessionalProject Management Institute · advanced
60/100HardCost not verifiedadvanced adjacentPfMP - Portfolio Management Professional maps to Project Coordinator as an advanced credential for progressing toward/within this role, not an entry signal.Official source
PgMP - Program Management ProfessionalProject Management Institute · advanced
60/100HardCost not verifiedadvanced adjacentPgMP - Program Management Professional maps to Project Coordinator as an advanced credential for progressing toward/within this role, not an entry signal.Official source
PMI-CPMAI - PMI Certified Professional in Managing AIProject Management Institute · advanced
65/100HardCost not verifiedadvanced adjacentPMI-CPMAI - PMI Certified Professional in Managing AI maps to Project Coordinator as an advanced credential for progressing toward/within this role, not an entry signal.Official source
PMI-RMP - PMI Risk Management ProfessionalProject Management Institute · advanced
75/100HardCost not verifiedadvanced adjacentPMI-RMP - PMI Risk Management Professional maps to Project Coordinator as an advanced credential for progressing toward/within this role, not an entry signal.Official source

3 later-step or lower-priority mappings are kept in the data payload for review.

Adjacent, not primary

1 mapped

Useful only for a pivot or neighboring track; not primary evidence for this role.

CredentialDifficultyCostRelationshipWhy it appears here
Cisco AI Technical PractitionerCisco · practitioner
20/100Foundational$150 examai fluency adjacentCisco AI Technical Practitioner can support AI fluency for technical coordination but is not a project-management credential.Official source

Difficulty is the RoleMath Difficulty Score, not a pass rate. Certification mappings are planning context, not employer requirements, job guarantees, salary claims, or ROI claims.

Answer blocks

Common Questions

What certifications do I need to become a Project Coordinator?

Certifications commonly mapped to a Project Coordinator role, ordered from the lowest-difficulty starting point: Certified Associate in Project Management; CompTIA Project+; PMI-ACP - PMI Agile Certified Practitioner — with advanced credentials such as PMI-PBA - PMI Professional in Business Analysis, PMI-SP - PMI Scheduling Professional as later steps.

Entry options, lowest difficulty first: Certified Associate in Project Management (Project Management Institute; Difficulty Score 25/100, Foundational; exam fee pending vendor verification); CompTIA Project+ (CompTIA; Difficulty Score 30/100, Foundational; exam ~$399); PMI-ACP - PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (Project Management Institute; Difficulty Score 35/100, Moderate; exam fee pending vendor verification). Advanced or later-step credentials: PMI-PBA - PMI Professional in Business Analysis (Project Management Institute; Difficulty Score 60/100, Hard; exam fee pending vendor verification); PMI-SP - PMI Scheduling Professional (Project Management Institute; Difficulty Score 60/100, Hard; exam fee pending vendor verification); PfMP - Portfolio Management Professional (Project Management Institute; Difficulty Score 60/100, Hard; exam fee pending vendor verification).

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What is the easiest certification to start a Project Coordinator career?

The lowest-difficulty cited certification for starting a Project Coordinator path is Certified Associate in Project Management (RoleMath Difficulty Score 25/100, Foundational, exam fee pending vendor verification). It is a starting signal, not a guarantee of a role.

Entry options, lowest difficulty first: Certified Associate in Project Management (Project Management Institute; Difficulty Score 25/100, Foundational; exam fee pending vendor verification); CompTIA Project+ (CompTIA; Difficulty Score 30/100, Foundational; exam ~$399); PMI-ACP - PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (Project Management Institute; Difficulty Score 35/100, Moderate; exam fee pending vendor verification).

Citations: Source rows are visible in the page citation ledger; certification source URLs are linked in the decision table.

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How much do Project Coordinator certifications cost and how hard are they?

Cited Project Coordinator certification exam fees range roughly $399–$399, spanning from Foundational entry options to Expert credentials on the RoleMath Difficulty Score. Pay and outlook are reported at the occupation level on the Project Coordinator page, never per certification.

Entry options, lowest difficulty first: Certified Associate in Project Management (Project Management Institute; Difficulty Score 25/100, Foundational; exam fee pending vendor verification); CompTIA Project+ (CompTIA; Difficulty Score 30/100, Foundational; exam ~$399); PMI-ACP - PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (Project Management Institute; Difficulty Score 35/100, Moderate; exam fee pending vendor verification).

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Project Coordinator

Quick Verdict

Project Coordinator maps to the BLS occupation Project Management Specialists (SOC 13-1082), which has a national median of $102,320. Pay is occupation-level and location-driven - not caused by the job title or a certification. Below are the full cited labor-market context, the skills the role draws on, and the certification paths that map to it. This role uses a broad O*NET-SOC/BLS occupation mapping. Treat salary, outlook, and task data as occupation-level evidence, not a guarantee for this exact job title.

Fit Signals

  • Enterprising (6.3)
  • Conventional (5.55)
  • Social (3.32)

Skills & Tools

*Tools and technologies ONET associates with this occupation* - role-specific examples with ONET hot/in-demand flags, not employer requirements:

  • Atlassian JIRA (hot technology, in demand)
  • Microsoft Excel (hot technology, in demand)
  • Microsoft Office software (hot technology, in demand)
  • Microsoft Outlook (hot technology, in demand)
  • Microsoft PowerPoint (hot technology, in demand)
  • Microsoft Project (hot technology, in demand)
  • Adobe Acrobat (hot technology)
  • Adobe InDesign (hot technology)

AI & this career

What we can — and can’t — tell you about AI and this role

Cited context only: an occupation-level outlook, descriptive usage data, an employer-language sample, and attributed research — kept separate. No RoleMath AI score, no automation timeline, no job-loss prediction. How we source this →

Occupation outlook · BLS

Where the occupation is projected to go

BLS projects Project management specialists at 5.6% employment change for 2024-2034, with 78.2 thousand annual openings. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

A forecast, not a guarantee; occupation-level, not about you - and BLS does not model rapid AI adoption, so this is never an AI prediction.

How AI shows up in the work

Descriptive usage, not demand or loss

For this shared SOC, the May 2026 usage sample reports 48.48% augmentation-labeled and 51.52% automation-labeled Claude conversations. Anthropic Anthropic Economic Index dataset, CC-BY.

Across all occupations the same dataset splits 51.4% augmentation / 48.6% automation (May 2026) — shown so a single role’s number is never read as an outlier.

Descriptive Claude usage data, not employment demand, not job loss, and not a personal forecast; CC-BY attribution required.

Employer language · sample

What a posting sample mentions

a sample of 7 postings (as of 2026-06-11) mentions these AI-related terms RoleMath public ATS employer-language pilot

Employer-language sample only; not official demand, market-size, salary, or certification ROI evidence.

Published research · attributed

What independent research says (not RoleMath’s claim)

  • Eloundou et al. estimate that about 80% of U.S. workers have at least 10% of their work tasks exposed to large language model capabilities (Science 2024). American Association for the Advancement of Science exposure = task overlap, not job loss.
  • Eloundou et al. estimate that about 19% of U.S. workers have at least 50% of their work tasks exposed to large language model capabilities (Science 2024). American Association for the Advancement of Science exposure = task overlap, not job loss.
  • Eloundou et al. explicitly disclaim any forecast of AI adoption or timing, describing their measure as capability overlap with tasks rather than a prediction of job loss (Science 2024). American Association for the Advancement of Science exposure = task overlap, not job loss.
  • OECD reports that high-skill occupations are the most exposed to AI on task-overlap measures (OECD Employment Outlook 2023). Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development exposure = task overlap, not job loss.
  • OECD reports that, as of 2023, there is little empirical evidence of negative employment effects from AI (OECD Employment Outlook 2023). Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development exposure = task overlap, not job loss.
  • OECD and the AIOE research find that AI exposure and automation risk often run in opposite directions, with the most-exposed high-skill occupations tending to be the least at risk of automation. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development exposure = task overlap, not job loss.
  • Felten, Raj and Seamans construct an occupation-level AI Occupational Exposure index by linking AI capabilities to O*NET occupational abilities (Strategic Management Journal). Strategic Management Journal (Wiley) exposure = task overlap, not job loss.
  • Stanford Digital Economy Lab researchers find a roughly 16% relative decline in employment for workers ages 22-25 in the most AI-exposed occupations, based on high-frequency ADP payroll data (Canaries in the Coal Mine, working paper). Stanford Digital Economy Lab correlational usage data, not proof.
  • The ILO notes that AI-exposure indicators measure potential task overlap and cannot by themselves establish job loss (Workers' exposure to AI). International Labour Organization exposure = task overlap, not job loss.
  • The Anthropic Economic Index reports no measured systematic rise in unemployment attributable to AI in its usage data. Anthropic correlational usage data, not proof.

Tier A research stays attributed and separate from BLS outlook and employer-language samples.

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Roles & paths this connects to

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Zoom out

ai fluency adjacentCisco AI Technical Practitionermaps to this rolePMI CAPMadjacentProject Management Professional

Every figure on this page, sourced

The claims above trace to these records — the source, and when it was last checked. If a figure has no row here, we did not publish it.

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