Domain administrator vs managing administrator

The differences between domain administrators and managing 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 domain administrator and a managing administrator. Additionally, a domain administrator has an average salary of $78,593, which is higher than the $75,025 average annual salary of a managing administrator.

The top three skills for a domain administrator include windows server, DNS and powershell. The most important skills for a managing administrator are oversight, administrative functions, and payroll.

Domain administrator vs managing administrator overview

	Domain Administrator	Managing Administrator
Yearly salary	$78,593	$75,025
Hourly rate	$37.79	$36.07
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	82,346	64,677
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 56%	Bachelor's Degree, 58%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	2	2

Domain administrator vs managing administrator salary

Domain administrators and managing administrators have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Domain Administrator	Managing Administrator
Average salary	$78,593	$75,025
Salary range	Between $55,000 And $112,000	Between $47,000 And $119,000
Highest paying City	-	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	-	California
Best paying company	-	Cornerstone Research
Best paying industry	-	Finance

Differences between domain administrator and managing administrator education

There are a few differences between a domain administrator and a managing administrator in terms of educational background:

	Domain Administrator	Managing Administrator
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 56%	Bachelor's Degree, 58%
Most common major	Computer Science	Business
Most common college	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Stanford University

Domain administrator vs managing administrator demographics

Here are the differences between domain administrators' and managing administrators' demographics:

	Domain Administrator	Managing Administrator
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 87.7% Female, 12.3%	Male, 37.6% Female, 62.4%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 8.9% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.5% Asian, 8.8% White, 64.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%	Black or African American, 8.8% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.5% Asian, 8.8% White, 64.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between domain administrator and managing administrator duties and responsibilities

Domain administrator example responsibilities.

Install service packs and patches to client workstations and servers; manage off-peak hour backups.
Manage and ensure effectiveness of security solutions, including firewalls, anti-virus solutions, VPN and intrusion detection systems.
Lead enterprise-wide virtualization effort, overseeing and completing vendor/hardware qualifications, architecture/design, installation, configuration, migration and documentation.
Upgrade and troubleshoot hardware issues.
Support to six data centers for VMware and Microsoft support.
Virtualize all servers using VMWARE, reduce server count 7 to 1.

Managing administrator example responsibilities.

Administer the intranet portal; manage HTML e-mail templates and campaigns.
Manage the CMS review and approval process of all marketing & other beneficiary collateral.
Manage unit HRIS and PC-III (Unix base system) and provide and/or remove access to.
Manage QA teams to develop application migration testing scenarios.
Create and manage a repository of group presentations and documents.
Manage quality assurance testing of new functionality including preparing and validating QA test cases.

Domain administrator vs managing administrator skills

Common domain administrator skills

Windows Server, 14%
DNS, 6%
PowerShell, 6%
VMware, 5%
Linux, 4%
Troubleshoot, 4%

Common managing administrator skills

Oversight, 18%
Administrative Functions, 16%
Payroll, 14%
Customer Service, 7%
Salesforce, 4%
Project Management, 3%

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