Aix administrator vs windows system administrator

The differences between aix administrators and windows system administrators can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 1-2 years to become both an aix administrator and a windows system administrator. Additionally, an aix administrator has an average salary of $80,735, which is higher than the $79,845 average annual salary of a windows system administrator.

The top three skills for an aix administrator include disk, linux and aix servers. The most important skills for a windows system administrator are windows server, infrastructure, and powershell.

Aix administrator vs windows system administrator overview

	AIX Administrator	Windows System Administrator
Yearly salary	$80,735	$79,845
Hourly rate	$38.81	$38.39
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	56,543	94,648
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 69%	Bachelor's Degree, 62%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	2	2

Aix administrator vs windows system administrator salary

Aix administrators and windows system administrators have different pay scales, as shown below.

	AIX Administrator	Windows System Administrator
Average salary	$80,735	$79,845
Salary range	Between $63,000 And $102,000	Between $60,000 And $104,000
Highest paying City	Hamilton, NJ	Sunnyvale, CA
Highest paying state	Washington	California
Best paying company	Barclays	Meta
Best paying industry	Finance	Finance

Differences between aix administrator and windows system administrator education

There are a few differences between an aix administrator and a windows system administrator in terms of educational background:

	AIX Administrator	Windows System Administrator
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 69%	Bachelor's Degree, 62%
Most common major	Computer Science	Computer Science
Most common college	-	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Aix administrator vs windows system administrator demographics

Here are the differences between aix administrators' and windows system administrators' demographics:

	AIX Administrator	Windows System Administrator
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 87.0% Female, 13.0%	Male, 88.3% Female, 11.7%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 7.6% Unknown, 5.0% Hispanic or Latino, 11.9% Asian, 14.2% White, 61.0% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%	Black or African American, 7.9% Unknown, 5.0% Hispanic or Latino, 11.6% Asian, 13.7% White, 61.6% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between aix administrator and windows system administrator duties and responsibilities

Aix administrator example responsibilities.

Used LVM for managing volume groups, logical volumes and file systems.
Work on LDAP manage servers migrate servers between security models and from one OU to another.
Manage blocks of 20 public IP addresses by sub netting to 24 and provision on MTA and DNS servers.
Manage HMC's version 6.1 , 6.2 , 6.3 and migrate them to HMC version 7.1 to accommodate power 7 machines.
Manage disk space and other system resources with respect to various applications and make recommendations to Business/ management regarding environment requirements.
Install and configure RHEL Linux on servers and desktops.

Windows system administrator example responsibilities.

Manage and configure VPN connections for the users.
Deploy and manage Panasonic PBX and VOIP phone systems and network connectivity.
Manage exchange stores, mailbox provisioning, active sync and monitoring the mailboxes.
Manage data usage, space, security and archival over servers, workstations and NAS machines.
Manage issues with server hardware, networking, web services, database, DNS, clustering, and e-mail.
Manage all OU's under domain at multiple sites across the country through a constant VPN tunnel per client rules.

Aix administrator vs windows system administrator skills

Common aix administrator skills

Disk, 6%
Linux, 5%
AIX Servers, 5%
LPAR, 5%
Unix, 4%
SAN, 4%

Common windows system administrator skills

Windows Server, 9%
Infrastructure, 7%
PowerShell, 7%
Troubleshoot, 6%
Linux, 5%
SCCM, 4%

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