Data center technician lead vs administrator

The differences between data center technician leads and administrators can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 1-2 years to become both a data center technician lead and an administrator. Additionally, a data center technician lead has an average salary of $128,891, which is higher than the $72,882 average annual salary of an administrator.

The top three skills for a data center technician lead include infrastructure, cloud and java. The most important skills for an administrator are customer service, data entry, and troubleshoot.

Data center technician lead vs administrator overview

	Data Center Technician Lead	Administrator
Yearly salary	$128,891	$72,882
Hourly rate	$61.97	$35.04
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	118,299	67,553
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 43%	Bachelor's Degree, 56%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	2	2

Data center technician lead vs administrator salary

Data center technician leads and administrators have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Data Center Technician Lead	Administrator
Average salary	$128,891	$72,882
Salary range	Between $76,000 And $217,000	Between $46,000 And $113,000
Highest paying City	-	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	-	Washington
Best paying company	-	Apple
Best paying industry	-	Manufacturing

Differences between data center technician lead and administrator education

There are a few differences between a data center technician lead and an administrator in terms of educational background:

	Data Center Technician Lead	Administrator
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 43%	Bachelor's Degree, 56%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	Stanford University	University of Pennsylvania

Data center technician lead vs administrator demographics

Here are the differences between data center technician leads' and administrators' demographics:

	Data Center Technician Lead	Administrator
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 86.9% Female, 13.1%	Male, 36.0% Female, 64.0%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 8.5% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.2% Asian, 11.8% White, 62.1% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%	Black or African American, 8.9% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.6% Asian, 8.8% White, 64.3% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between data center technician lead and administrator duties and responsibilities

Data center technician lead example responsibilities.

Recommend, engineer and manage office systems, including centralize productivity and communication systems such as e-mail and centralize desktop environments.
Install & setup BPCS & 3rd party ERP applications.
Provide first line defense by providing customer with support on hosting, HTML, FTP, POP3 issues.
Support various web-base applications, LAN/WAN connections and various media devices (FTP programs, PDAs and Smartphone's).
Set appropriate recovery model for SQL databases to maximize space used, depending on the type of data in the database.
Back up terabyte databases and perform restores and run consistency checks from SQL standby servers prior to making changes in production.

Administrator example responsibilities.

Develop a Perl script to manage the LDAP schema.
Hire and manage all receptionists and assistant MCA's.
Used all tools of Java stack in supporting and managing it.
Manage and process product orders on windows base on-line computer network system.
Manage ADP time system for technicians and approve time-off requests, supporting management.
Manage professional staff of 9 (including 5 MDs) and support staff of 10

Data center technician lead vs administrator skills

Common data center technician lead skills

Infrastructure, 17%
Cloud, 13%
Java, 5%
Switches, 5%
Data Centers, 4%
Customer Service, 4%

Common administrator skills

Customer Service, 18%
Data Entry, 7%
Troubleshoot, 6%
Payroll, 6%
Financial Reports, 4%
Oversight, 4%

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