Exchange engineer vs exchange administrator

The differences between exchange engineers and exchange administrators can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 1-2 years to become both an exchange engineer and an exchange administrator. Additionally, an exchange engineer has an average salary of $100,373, which is higher than the $93,513 average annual salary of an exchange administrator.

The top three skills for an exchange engineer include powershell, O365 and azure. The most important skills for an exchange administrator are powershell, windows server, and troubleshoot.

Exchange engineer vs exchange administrator overview

	Exchange Engineer	Exchange Administrator
Yearly salary	$100,373	$93,513
Hourly rate	$48.26	$44.96
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	52,693	71,304
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 62%	Bachelor's Degree, 56%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	2	2

Exchange engineer vs exchange administrator salary

Exchange engineers and exchange administrators have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Exchange Engineer	Exchange Administrator
Average salary	$100,373	$93,513
Salary range	Between $75,000 And $132,000	Between $70,000 And $123,000
Highest paying City	Newark, CA	San Jose, CA
Highest paying state	Oregon	California
Best paying company	Pwc	Unisys
Best paying industry	Government	Finance

Differences between exchange engineer and exchange administrator education

There are a few differences between an exchange engineer and an exchange administrator in terms of educational background:

	Exchange Engineer	Exchange Administrator
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 62%	Bachelor's Degree, 56%
Most common major	Computer Science	Computer Science
Most common college	-	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Exchange engineer vs exchange administrator demographics

Here are the differences between exchange engineers' and exchange administrators' demographics:

	Exchange Engineer	Exchange Administrator
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 87.6% Female, 12.4%	Male, 83.4% Female, 16.6%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 9.1% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.7% Asian, 10.7% White, 62.0% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%	Black or African American, 8.8% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.5% Asian, 11.6% White, 61.8% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between exchange engineer and exchange administrator duties and responsibilities

Exchange engineer example responsibilities.

Manage sites, trusts, replication and all active directory GPO issues.
Create PowerShell script to automate ActiveSync policy deployment.
Work with Sharepoint department to troubleshoot email issues.
Add new UPN suffix and appropriate DNS records.
Monitor and stabilize the environment in co-existence with SCOM.
Test user functionality from the cloud to on premise resources.

Exchange administrator example responsibilities.

Monitor, maintain, and manage Citrix XenApp user sessions and support their ThinClients.
Manage IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0 server clusters and services across multiple sites and domains.
Save company many hours of manual testing and developing by engineering Java applications to automate tedious tasks.
Utilize strong working knowledge of TCP/IP, DHCP, HTTP, LDAP, SNMP, SMTP, and other networking protocols.
Subject matter expert on the Linux and UNIX servers.
Perform multiple batch moves from on-premise exchange environment to O365.

Exchange engineer vs exchange administrator skills

Common exchange engineer skills

PowerShell, 12%
O365, 8%
Azure, 6%
Skype, 6%
Cloud, 6%
Microsoft Exchange, 5%

Common exchange administrator skills

PowerShell, 8%
Windows Server, 7%
Troubleshoot, 7%
Infrastructure, 6%
Microsoft Exchange, 6%
Mobile Device Management, 4%

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