Desk top publisher vs lead technician

The differences between desk top publishers and lead technicians can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 1-2 years to become both a desk top publisher and a lead technician. Additionally, a lead technician has an average salary of $90,615, which is higher than the $47,203 average annual salary of a desk top publisher.

The top three skills for a desk top publisher include desktop support, PC and OS. The most important skills for a lead technician are java, architecture, and digital transformation.

Desk top publisher vs lead technician overview

	Desk Top Publisher	Lead Technician
Yearly salary	$47,203	$90,615
Hourly rate	$22.69	$43.56
Growth rate	10%	10%
Number of jobs	24,946	250,590
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 38%	Bachelor's Degree, 50%
Average age	42	42
Years of experience	2	2

Desk top publisher vs lead technician salary

Desk top publishers and lead technicians have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Desk Top Publisher	Lead Technician
Average salary	$47,203	$90,615
Salary range	Between $30,000 And $73,000	Between $67,000 And $121,000
Highest paying City	-	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	-	California
Best paying company	-	Meta
Best paying industry	-	Retail

Differences between desk top publisher and lead technician education

There are a few differences between a desk top publisher and a lead technician in terms of educational background:

	Desk Top Publisher	Lead Technician
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 38%	Bachelor's Degree, 50%
Most common major	Computer Science	Computer Science
Most common college	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Desk top publisher vs lead technician demographics

Here are the differences between desk top publishers' and lead technicians' demographics:

	Desk Top Publisher	Lead Technician
Average age	42	42
Gender ratio	Male, 53.2% Female, 46.8%	Male, 83.4% Female, 16.6%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 10.8% Unknown, 5.4% Hispanic or Latino, 16.4% Asian, 10.6% White, 56.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.4%	Black or African American, 10.4% Unknown, 5.3% Hispanic or Latino, 15.1% Asian, 15.1% White, 53.6% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.4%
LGBT Percentage	11%	11%

Differences between desk top publisher and lead technician duties and responsibilities

Desk top publisher example responsibilities.

Manage remedy ticket queue to ensure tickets are being handle properly and resolve within SLA.
Create a SharePoint document repository for all legacy system information, configuration, and associate processes.
Monitor the NAGIOS alarm system that report alerts for servers, switches, applications, and services.
Provide networking/desktop support and perform mainframe and account maintenance tasks.

Lead technician example responsibilities.

Manage and support the Cisco base corporate remote access VPN solution.
Manage the third party IP provider relationship and implement all the bridges between AXI4 and internal buses.
Used JIRA to manage the product backlog, tasks assignments, project burn-down rate and for velocity tracking purposes.
Manage product test support of new designs used for testing, write technical documentation in HTML improving department processes and procedures.
Manage customer functional areas of desktop support, field service, office services and network support to coordinate timely issue resolution.
Configure and manage JGroup multicasting communication for apache tomcat web servers.

Desk top publisher vs lead technician skills

Common desk top publisher skills

Desktop Support, 39%
PC, 14%
OS, 13%
XP, 11%
LAN, 9%
VPN, 9%

Common lead technician skills

Java, 10%
Architecture, 7%
Digital Transformation, 6%
Customer Service, 6%
Database, 4%
HTML, 3%