Mis administrator vs managing administrator

The differences between mis 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 mis administrator and a managing administrator. Additionally, a managing administrator has an average salary of $75,025, which is higher than the $63,939 average annual salary of a mis administrator.

The top three skills for a mis administrator include customer service, database systems and PC. The most important skills for a managing administrator are oversight, administrative functions, and payroll.

Mis administrator vs managing administrator overview

	MIS Administrator	Managing Administrator
Yearly salary	$63,939	$75,025
Hourly rate	$30.74	$36.07
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	81,080	64,677
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 61%	Bachelor's Degree, 58%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	2	2

Mis administrator vs managing administrator salary

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

	MIS Administrator	Managing Administrator
Average salary	$63,939	$75,025
Salary range	Between $46,000 And $88,000	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 mis administrator and managing administrator education

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

	MIS Administrator	Managing Administrator
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 61%	Bachelor's Degree, 58%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	University of Pennsylvania	Stanford University

Mis administrator vs managing administrator demographics

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

	MIS Administrator	Managing Administrator
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 67.6% Female, 32.4%	Male, 37.6% Female, 62.4%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 8.9% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.6% Asian, 9.6% White, 63.5% 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 mis administrator and managing administrator duties and responsibilities

Mis administrator example responsibilities.

Lead enterprise-wide virtualization effort, overseeing and completing vendor/hardware qualifications, architecture/design, installation, configuration, migration and documentation.
Create, troubleshoot, and administer user accounts, network passwords.
Monitor EDI transactions, troubleshoot issues with file receipt, and extract data for reports as needed.
Support a 15 server Citrix XenApp 5.0 farm performing updates to the published application as well as patches to operating system.
Steer Citrix network operations supporting business critical financial applications for global investment management firm base in London, UK.
Perform troubleshooting and fault isolation on PCs, or relate system components in simple configurations in order to maintain system availability.

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.

Mis administrator vs managing administrator skills

Common mis administrator skills

Customer Service, 18%
Database Systems, 10%
PC, 6%
Troubleshoot, 5%
Desktop Support, 5%
SQL Server, 5%

Common managing administrator skills

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

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Updated January 8, 2025

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