Procedure analyst vs method consultant

The differences between procedure analysts and method consultants can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. Additionally, a method consultant has an average salary of $96,167, which is higher than the $78,351 average annual salary of a procedure analyst.

The top three skills for a procedure analyst include audit findings, policy changes and simplification. The most important skills for a method consultant are java, MWS, and interface design.

Procedure analyst vs method consultant overview

	Procedure Analyst	Method Consultant
Yearly salary	$78,351	$96,167
Hourly rate	$37.67	$46.23
Growth rate	23%	23%
Number of jobs	16,637	22,979
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 68%	Bachelor's Degree, 64%
Average age	45	45
Years of experience	-	-

Procedure analyst vs method consultant salary

Procedure analysts and method consultants have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Procedure Analyst	Method Consultant
Average salary	$78,351	$96,167
Salary range	Between $55,000 And $109,000	Between $74,000 And $124,000
Highest paying City	-	Sunnyvale, CA
Highest paying state	-	California
Best paying company	-	Software AG
Best paying industry	-	Professional

Differences between procedure analyst and method consultant education

There are a few differences between a procedure analyst and a method consultant in terms of educational background:

	Procedure Analyst	Method Consultant
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 68%	Bachelor's Degree, 64%
Most common major	Business	Computer Science
Most common college	University of Southern California	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Procedure analyst vs method consultant demographics

Here are the differences between procedure analysts' and method consultants' demographics:

	Procedure Analyst	Method Consultant
Average age	45	45
Gender ratio	Male, 41.9% Female, 58.1%	Male, 80.0% Female, 20.0%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 13.3% Unknown, 6.0% Hispanic or Latino, 13.8% Asian, 8.4% White, 57.9% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.6%	Black or African American, 12.6% Unknown, 5.9% Hispanic or Latino, 12.5% Asian, 13.0% White, 55.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.6%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between procedure analyst and method consultant duties and responsibilities

Procedure analyst example responsibilities.

Manage all logistics and supply chain operations that facilitate sales delivery with minimal disruption to distribution, following all compliance standards.
Create SQL queries to extract daily and monthly commission data for analysis.
Automate inventory quality reports by applying working knowledge of DB2, QMF, VM and SQL.
Reduce budget by $850K in costs by clarifying telecommunication expenses being charge back to MetraHealth by MetLife.
Establish senior personnel's sustainable metric packages on behalf of MetLife to foster environmental awareness and concerns to their customers.
Identify issues and make suggestions regarding improvements and simplification if existing process.

Method consultant example responsibilities.

Create schedulers to post the JMS messages that will kick off the process where require to automate the business processes.
Manage secure communication using webMethods through HTTPS port, digital certificates, encryption / decryption and proxy authentication.
Project leadership, strategy and health information management consulting services to healthcare and manage care organizations and health information technology companies.
Gain knowledge of encryption techniques like PGP.
Design BPM for request processing, batch processing and PGP encryption of RFI payloads.
Develop flow services to pull files from FTP server and configure the flow services in schedulers.

Procedure analyst vs method consultant skills

Common procedure analyst skills

Audit Findings, 21%
Policy Changes, 12%
Simplification, 6%
Training Materials, 6%
Process Improvement, 5%
SharePoint, 4%

Common method consultant skills

Java, 8%
MWS, 8%
Interface Design, 6%
SFTP, 4%
FTP, 4%
XML Spy, 4%