Principal archaeologist vs lead architect

The differences between principal archaeologists and lead architects can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. Additionally, a lead architect has an average salary of $104,687, which is higher than the $55,230 average annual salary of a principal archaeologist.

The top three skills for a principal archaeologist include research design, state agencies and shpo. The most important skills for a lead architect are digital transformation, architecture, and java.

Principal archaeologist vs lead architect overview

	Principal Archaeologist	Lead Architect
Yearly salary	$55,230	$104,687
Hourly rate	$26.55	$50.33
Growth rate	6%	21%
Number of jobs	39,732	266,541
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 57%	Bachelor's Degree, 63%
Average age	41	44
Years of experience	2	-

Principal archaeologist vs lead architect salary

Principal archaeologists and lead architects have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Principal Archaeologist	Lead Architect
Average salary	$55,230	$104,687
Salary range	Between $27,000 And $112,000	Between $78,000 And $139,000
Highest paying City	-	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	-	California
Best paying company	-	Google
Best paying industry	-	Insurance

Differences between principal archaeologist and lead architect education

There are a few differences between a principal archaeologist and a lead architect in terms of educational background:

	Principal Archaeologist	Lead Architect
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 57%	Bachelor's Degree, 63%
Most common major	Anthropology	Computer Science
Most common college	University of Texas at Austin	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Principal archaeologist vs lead architect demographics

Here are the differences between principal archaeologists' and lead architects' demographics:

	Principal Archaeologist	Lead Architect
Average age	41	44
Gender ratio	Male, 83.3% Female, 16.7%	Male, 90.2% Female, 9.8%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 3.9% Unknown, 6.6% Hispanic or Latino, 10.2% Asian, 5.9% White, 72.3% American Indian and Alaska Native, 1.1%	Black or African American, 6.2% Unknown, 4.7% Hispanic or Latino, 8.8% Asian, 12.0% White, 67.7% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.5%
LGBT Percentage	11%	11%

Differences between principal archaeologist and lead architect duties and responsibilities

Principal archaeologist example responsibilities.

Manage contracts for curation of museum items, propose actions to repatriate NAGPRA materials and resolve curation problems.
Conduct geomorphologic and soils investigations in support of archaeological surveys and excavations.
Work extensively with office personnel to prepare reports derive from fieldwork that correspond to SHPO obligations.
Assist in report production and maintain field specimen catalogues for several sites; water screen and process artifact flotation samples.
Coordinate donor-country efforts to encourage refugee returns to Sarajevo and eastern Bosnia.

Lead architect example responsibilities.

Provide insight and manage all technology relate aspects with presentations and communications at Sr. management and CxO level.
Hook up the JSP plugins with spring bind and JSTL tags in the HTML pages.
Work with Jenkins CI server.
Develop Linux user space C/C++/Python (Gstreamer, plugins) for multimedia.
Initiate requirements gathering, designing, and rolling out the ERP solution.
Lead other developers to start using it and changing their framework to MVC.

Principal archaeologist vs lead architect skills

Common principal archaeologist skills

Research Design, 38%
State Agencies, 35%
Shpo, 27%

Common lead architect skills

Digital Transformation, 13%
Architecture, 10%
Java, 7%
Cloud, 6%
Infrastructure, 4%
Api Testing, 4%

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Updated January 8, 2025

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