Single-Serving Certifications: Morsels of Discrete Data from the CertMag Salary Survey

There were more than 900 certifications included in the most recent Salary Survey conducted by our friends at Certification Magazine. And more than 4,000 individuals from 99 different countries participated in the survey. Put all of those numbers together and you get an impressively large amount of data.

Lots of that data gets reported, both in Certification Magazine itself and online at CertMag.com. Even with somewhere around 75 additional Salary Survey articles appearing at the website in the course of each year, however, there's still a mountain of data that doesn't really get used for anything at all.

That's why today we have a fat serving of Salary Survey leftovers for you. These are odds and ends that ordinarily would get swept into the digital dustbin and be winked out of existence by the DELETE key. Sometimes it's interesting, of course, to look around at the (data) dump and see what ended up there.

Today we have a dozen rejects, 12 certifications each held by exactly one — and only one — individual who responded to the survey. We've also tossed in a few facts about the one survey respondent who holds each of these lonely credentials.

We hope you enjoy these oddments. As happened last year, we will present a series of these samplers throughout spring, summer, and early fall.

1) AccessData Certified Quin-C Investigator — This one is held by a man who lives in Arizona. He is between the ages of 25 and 34 and has an annual salary of between $50,000 and $52,499. The highest level of formal education he has completed is a master's degree.

2) Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe Advertising Cloud Search Business Practitioner — This one is held by a man who lives in Afghanistan. He is older than 74 and has an annual salary of less than $20,000, or less than ?1,566,944. The highest level of formal education he has completed is a master's degree.

3) Adobe Certified Professional: Marketo Engage Business Practitioner — This one is held by a man who lives in Tennessee. He is between the ages of 35 and 44 and has an annual salary of between $110,000 and $114,999. The highest level of formal education he has completed is an master's degree.

4) Adobe Certified Expert: Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2015 — This one is held by a man who lives in Texas. He is between the ages of 45 and 54 and has an annual salary of between $50,000 and $52,499. The highest level of formal education he has completed is a bachelor's degree.

5) AHIMA Registered Health Information Technician — This one is held by a man who lives in the United Kingdom. He is between the ages of 55 and 64 and has an annual salary of between $97,500 and $99,999, or between �69,590 and �71,374. The highest level of formal education he has completed is a bachelor's degree.

6) Amazon Web Services Certified Alexa Skill Builder - Specialty — This one is held by a man who lives in the Virginia. He is between the ages of 45 and 54 and has an annual salary of between $190,000 and $194,999. The highest level of formal education he has completed is a bachelor's degree.

7) Arcitura Certified Big Data Scientist — This one is held by a woman who lives in Colombia. She is between the ages of 25 and 34 and has an annual salary of between $30,000 and $32,499, or between COL$108,321,900 and COL$117,345,114. The highest level of formal education he has completed is post-high school technical training.

8) Arcitura Certified Big Data Governance Specialist — This one is held by a man who lives in India. He is between the ages of 35 and 44 and has an annual salary of between $25,000 and $27,499, or between ?1,828,885 and ?2,011,700. The highest level of formal education he has completed is a bachelor's degree.

9) Arcitura Certified Cloud Professional — This one is held by a man who lives in North Carolina. He is between the ages of 45 and 54 and has an annual salary of between $175,000 and $179,999. The highest level of formal education he has completed is a bachelor's degree.

10) Aruba Certified Design Professional (ACDP) — This one is held by a man who lives in Saudi Arabia. He is between the ages of 25 and 34 and has an annual salary of between $32,500 and $34,999, or between ?121,883 and ?131,254. The highest level of formal education he has completed is a bachelor's degree.

11) Aruba Certified Design Expert (ACDX) — This one is held by a man who lives in Georgia. He is between the ages of 25 and 34 and has an annual salary of between $135,000 and $139,999. The highest level of formal education he has completed is a bachelor's degree.

12) ASIS Certified Protection Professional (CPP) — This one is held by a man who lives in Washington. He is between the ages of 55 and 64 and has an annual salary of more than $200,000. The highest level of formal education he has completed is a bachelor's degree.