15 Top-Paying Certifications for 2016

Take a look at some of this year's top-paying certifications as determined by the more than 10,000 responses to Global Knowledge's 2016 IT Skills and Salary Survey of your peers across North America. Certifications in IT security, virtualization and cloud computing, networking, and business dominated this year's list. What may surprise you is the average pay of these certifications.

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