Editorial policy

CertNorth exists because most project-management certification advice is written by the people selling the courses. We are not a training provider, so our verdicts are honest: we tell you who a certification is not for, not just who it is for.

Every number is sourced and dated. Exam fees, eligibility rules, and renewal requirements come straight from the certifying bodies — PMI, Scrum.org, the Scrum Alliance — and we name the source and the date we last verified it. Salary figures come from official labour-market data (such as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics), with the exact source linked. We never invent a number, and when official data doesn't exist for a country, we say so.

These figures change. Certifying bodies adjust prices and rules; PMI raised exam fees in 2026, for example. We re-verify the volatile numbers on a regular schedule and update the guide — we do not leave stale figures online, and we never bump a date without actually revising the content.

On affiliates: some links to courses and exam-prep tools earn us a commission at no cost to you. That never changes a ranking or a verdict — when we say skip something, it stays "skip it" whether or not there's a commission attached.

About authorship: this is an early build of CertNorth, published under our editorial team. We compile and verify from official primary sources rather than claiming personal credentials we don't have — and we tell you exactly where every fact comes from so you can check it yourself.