Postgraduate education is one of the ways in which an individual can develop his own skills and increase the demand for his services on the labour market. Specialist postgraduate and MBA studies are based more on the needs of the labour market than doctoral studies, and they are also of shorter duration and as such represent the possibility of developing one's skills in order for the individual to achieve higher levels of compensation and to advance within the organizational hierarchy of the modern business world. The objective of the empirical research was, using a questionnaire, to investigate how individuals perceived the influence of specialist postgraduate and MBA studies on their own career through the effects on skill development, increase in compensation and changes in work tasks. The obtained results show that the respondents most value the development of written and oral presentation skills and the increase in self-confidence. The results further show that the respondents mostly perceive the increase in the basic salary as an influence of specialist postgraduate and MBA studies, with a moderately fast impact of the completion of studies on promotion. Respondents stated that they generally consider postgraduate education a good investment for their career and that they would recommend attending specialist postgraduate and MBA studies to their friends and colleagues