Data center technician lead vs assistant systems administrator

The differences between data center technician leads and assistant systems 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 assistant systems administrator. Additionally, a data center technician lead has an average salary of $128,891, which is higher than the $40,777 average annual salary of an assistant systems administrator.

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

Data center technician lead vs assistant systems administrator overview

	Data Center Technician Lead	Assistant Systems Administrator
Yearly salary	$128,891	$40,777
Hourly rate	$61.97	$19.60
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	118,299	104,311
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 43%	Bachelor's Degree, 55%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	2	2

Data center technician lead vs assistant systems administrator salary

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

	Data Center Technician Lead	Assistant Systems Administrator
Average salary	$128,891	$40,777
Salary range	Between $76,000 And $217,000	Between $23,000 And $71,000
Highest paying City	-	Chico, CA
Highest paying state	-	New Jersey
Best paying company	-	City of Los Angeles
Best paying industry	-	Health Care

Differences between data center technician lead and assistant systems administrator education

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

	Data Center Technician Lead	Assistant Systems Administrator
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 43%	Bachelor's Degree, 55%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	Stanford University	University of Pennsylvania

Data center technician lead vs assistant systems administrator demographics

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

	Data Center Technician Lead	Assistant Systems Administrator
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 86.9% Female, 13.1%	Male, 38.6% Female, 61.4%
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, 9.0% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.7% Asian, 8.7% White, 64.1% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between data center technician lead and assistant systems 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.

Assistant systems administrator example responsibilities.

Perform a wide variety of administrative tasks including managing daily schedules and interconnecting with other medical facilities and patients.
Monitor network connectivity, traffic, loads, and TCP/IP packet efficiency.
Work on Solaris volume manager to create file systems as per user and database requirements.
Maintain anti-virus software, remedy virus infections, and resolve hardware problems and technical issues.
Configure PCs, fax, printers, network, and internet for their small office.
Provide desktop support & user account administration on NT and Novell servers on a token ring network

Data center technician lead vs assistant systems administrator skills

Common data center technician lead skills

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

Common assistant systems administrator skills

Customer Service, 15%
Patients, 12%
Payroll, 7%
PowerPoint, 5%
Bed Facility, 5%
Human Resources, 5%

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