Also called: Head of Payments
Decides how a company accepts and sends money: cards, digital wallets, bank transfers and new payment methods.
You negotiate lower card-processing fees with a payments company, test a 'buy now, pay later' option at checkout and track how many sales it adds.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 6 years after high school. Bachelor's in finance or business.
Ways in: 4-year college. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Finance, Business Administration.
Growing faster than average. Growing with digital payments.
Medium risk for 10 years. AI analyzes payment data and costs; negotiating with card networks and banks and setting strategy stay human.
Classes: AP Macroeconomics, Business class, AP Statistics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 11-3031.
Career Universe is an early version. Pay, training and AI-risk figures are estimates to start your own research, not verified facts. The research was written with AI research assistants, checked by validation scripts and spot-checked by hand. Check anything important with schools, employers and official sources. How the numbers work.