How much money can an IT certificate bring?

Do you have at least one certification? Or do you think that an IT specialist of your level and with this experience does not need any extra documents. And the certification invented by vendors to collect money from gullible newbies in the IT industry?
So need certification or not, and if necessary, why?

A friend from America called the other day, complaining about the local Eychars. How did they hurt her? A friend, a certified Oracle specialist (and not one of her certifications), decided to change jobs. Ride far, the boss is annoying, and I would like more money. She sent out her resume, and even despite the crisis, she immediately received a dozen invitations for an interview - her experts are always in demand by the market. But wherever she went, she was offered exactly the same salary everywhere as she had in the old place. Why? Because a person with such a set of certifications and such experience costs exactly that much and not a cent more. But, truth, and not a cent less. Everything is clear and completely objective.
To ensure that no one doubts its market value, in the United States an annual certification rating is compiled and laid out in open access, which shows the average salary for each certification. Agree, a very convenient thing. Want to know how much you are worth today - please. And if you want, you can predict your salary next year. Choose the amount that interests you and see exactly what certifications you lack to earn that particular amount.

The average salary of specialists in popular certifications

Certification	Salary	Number of respondents
PMP - Project Management Professional	$ 104,253	1236
CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate	$ 79,695	1116
MCP - MS Certified Professional	$ 74 438	1038
MCSE - MS Certified Systems Engineer	$ 86,454	830
ITIL v3 Foundation	$ 101 185	549
MCSA - MS Certified System Administrator	$ 76,337	527
ITIL v2 Foundation	$ 102,128	490
CompTIA - Network +	$ 70 902	475
CompTIA - A +	$ 68,631	469
CompTIA - Security +	$ 76,844	417
CISSP - Cert Info Sys Security Professional	$ 99,928	373
CCNP - Cisco Certified Network Professional	$ 89,864	324
Other project management certifications	$ 95 979	286
VMware Certified Professional	$ 91,271	264
Six sigma	$ 111,908	236
MCITP - MS Certified IT Professional	$ 82,044	234
Other business process certifications	$ 94,383	226
CCDA - Cisco Certified Design Associate	$ 93,953	223
MCDST - MS Certified Desktop Support Technician	$ 70 197	188
MCTS - Windows Vista Configure	$ 71,786	176

(View an overview of the salaries of IT professionals in the US can be here )
By the way, on closer inspection it becomes clear that this rating more or less coincides with what is happening in our IT market. True, with some time lag and with some adjustment for such technologies that are less common in our country, for example, unlike Russia, Novell is very popular. What is the moral of this? Yes, very simple, you want to earn more money, get certified. And the more you want to earn, the more serious certifications should be in your asset. Because our Eychary have long enjoyed this and other similar ratings and reviews. But the majority of our IT specialists have not yet realized that each next career and salary step is inevitably the next step in certification. And here, in the West and in the East ...