Memberships

Does being a member of a professional association or body have any influence on your earning potential? We asked, first of all, if practitioners were a member of a professional body or association. The graphs to the left show the responses by employees and contractors.

Salaried Project Practitioners

APM - Association for Project Management

PMI - Project Management Institute

BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT

CMI - Chartered Management Institute

Taking a look at membership of professional bodies across both permanent and contract project practitioners gives some interesting insights.

Towards the lower end of the salaries we see that APM is the most common choice, with PMI appearing more prominently at the £30K mark. As the salaries increase APM’s membership numbers decrease with PMI and the CMI becoming more popular.

Membership remains popular with practitioners at the higher end of the salary scale. The lower earners seem to need more convincing.

Contract Project Practitioners

APM - Association for Project Management

PMI - Project Management Institute

BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT

CMI - Chartered Management Institute

With the contractors, we see only two rate points where membership has been taken up (£500 and £600).

For the contract market a dominant professional body seems to be the CMI, especially in the £500 rate point.

In terms of the specific project management professional bodies of APM and PMI, the take up is more or less evenly spread across the rates.

You can read more about the impact of membership for project practitioners on page 4 of the Project Management Benchmark Report for 2015.

Salaried Project Practitioners

Not everyone sees the value of training and development and the graphs above and below show that salary and rate levels are not necessarily impacted by the lack of training in any of the courses listed to the left.