This Job Skills Will Get You The Biggest Raise I Your Business

You will need to know a specific Ability/skill to get ahead. No matter what industry you work in or what job you have (or are going after) it helps to know what you can do.

PayScale – an online resource for info on salary and benefits across all industries – recently released results of a survey showing exactly which skills and proficiencies can help you get a better salary than the average for your field. They even provided estimates on how big that pay boost could be. We assembled all of their data in an extensive gallery, divided by industry. Check it out below!

As we look at the information PayScale released in its 2016 Workforce-Skills Preparedness Report – see the entire report here – we see some up and coming skills that can be beneficial to workers in a handful of spaces.

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Overall, proficiency with the programming language, Scala, can bring about the biggest boost in salary for workers in certain industries—a 22.2% increase, according to PayScale. Other tech skills that can provide pay boosts are Cisco UCCE/IPCC, a business

infrastructure platform used by companies and organizations, which employers are willing to pay out an average 21.1% more for when searching for employees.  Go, an open source computer programming language created by Google, can bring an additional 20% in salary to those experienced in its application.

Experience in the art of Mergers and Acquisitions is also attractive to employers in more than one industry. Those in business management can expect to see a 16% higher salary with skills in that arena, while it can provide an 18% boost for those in business operations. Those dealing with the legal aspects of business could enjoy a 23% higher salary if well versed in M&A.

For those in industries that deal in Big Data, experience with the program Splunk can bring about 14% higher salaries, while those proficient in Apache Software’s Hadoop can see a 12.5% pay boost, according to PayScale. Read More: These Are The Skills Bosses Say New College Grads Do Not Have

There are certain skills which are decidedly not impressive for certain fields when placed on a resume . According to PayScale’s data, those looking to land higher paying jobs in management or Business and Financial Operations positions should leave filing, AS/400, desktop support, Intuit Quickbooks and property management off their lists of skills. Those are basic proficiencies that employers are expecting you to have and highlighting them in your push for a position or a raise may have an adverse effect.

Those looking for a pay boost in the field of Computers and Mathematics should refrain from boasting of skills in data entry and call center operations because those, too, are a given. Workers in Sales occupations can stand to overlook their experience in bookkeeping and collections. Best to highlight other strengths instead.

The discoveries unveiled in PayScale’s latest report were put together from data collected from the company’s employee compensation survey between March 2014 and March 2016. Overall, 2,010,000 workers took part. For more information on the methodology behind PayScale’s results, visit its sitehere.