City collector vs collection analyst

The differences between city collectors and collection analysts can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 6-12 months to become both a city collector and a collection analyst. Additionally, a collection analyst has an average salary of $46,819, which is higher than the $33,093 average annual salary of a city collector.

The top three skills for a city collector include COC, outbound calls and payroll. The most important skills for a collection analyst are customer service, portfolio, and patients.

City collector vs collection analyst overview

	City Collector	Collection Analyst
Yearly salary	$33,093	$46,819
Hourly rate	$15.91	$22.51
Growth rate	-8%	-8%
Number of jobs	8,748	28,967
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 47%	Bachelor's Degree, 55%
Average age	46	46
Years of experience	12	12

City collector vs collection analyst salary

City collectors and collection analysts have different pay scales, as shown below.

	City Collector	Collection Analyst
Average salary	$33,093	$46,819
Salary range	Between $24,000 And $44,000	Between $31,000 And $69,000
Highest paying City	-	Washington, DC
Highest paying state	-	Connecticut
Best paying company	-	American Tower
Best paying industry	-	Technology

Differences between city collector and collection analyst education

There are a few differences between a city collector and a collection analyst in terms of educational background:

	City Collector	Collection Analyst
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 47%	Bachelor's Degree, 55%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	-	-

City collector vs collection analyst demographics

Here are the differences between city collectors' and collection analysts' demographics:

	City Collector	Collection Analyst
Average age	46	46
Gender ratio	Male, 39.3% Female, 60.7%	Male, 37.7% Female, 62.3%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 13.6% Unknown, 4.1% Hispanic or Latino, 15.8% Asian, 3.8% White, 62.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.5%	Black or African American, 13.9% Unknown, 4.2% Hispanic or Latino, 18.6% Asian, 4.0% White, 58.8% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.5%
LGBT Percentage	8%	8%

Differences between city collector and collection analyst duties and responsibilities

City collector example responsibilities.

Prevent impeding loss and increasing profitability through negotiation and enforcement of schedule collection campaigns, consistently achieving high success standards.
Work with CACS every day.
Direct the management of the conversion of financial software for payroll and accounts receivable.
Reference COC vehicle information system for vehicle information on unpaid tickets.
Prevent impeding loss and increasing profitability through negotiation and enforcement of schedule collection campaigns, consistently achieving high success standards.
Utilize various skip-tracing services such as Accurint and TheWorkNumber in order to locate consumers and verify employment for account recovery purposes.

Collection analyst example responsibilities.

Represent and lead the collections' team during executive management weekly conference calls providing updates on the delinquent A/R reports.
Assist in reducing the DSO down and limit bad debt expense while focusing on building revenue.
Maintain customer relations while improving company DSO.
Work remittance advice from Medicaid and Medicare ensuring accuracy of payments, correcting account billing according with Medicaid or Medicare disposition.
Do credit checks for new clients with Dunn & Bradstreet along with Equifax.
Perform processing functions necessary to ensure timely and accurate DME billing.

City collector vs collection analyst skills

Common city collector skills

COC, 76%
Outbound Calls, 15%
Payroll, 9%

Common collection analyst skills

Customer Service, 16%
Portfolio, 9%
Patients, 5%
Customer Accounts, 5%
Delinquent Accounts, 4%
Reconciliations, 4%