Product administrator vs data product manager

The differences between product administrators and data product managers can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. While it typically takes 4-6 years to become a product administrator, becoming a data product manager takes usually requires 8-10 years. Additionally, a data product manager has an average salary of $117,599, which is higher than the $79,253 average annual salary of a product administrator.

The top three skills for a product administrator include data entry, product support and product data. The most important skills for a data product manager are product management, BI, and QA.

Product administrator vs data product manager overview

	Product Administrator	Data Product Manager
Yearly salary	$79,253	$117,599
Hourly rate	$38.10	$56.54
Growth rate	11%	10%
Number of jobs	241,039	189,532
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 65%	Bachelor's Degree, 72%
Average age	47	39
Years of experience	6	10

Product administrator vs data product manager salary

Product administrators and data product managers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Product Administrator	Data Product Manager
Average salary	$79,253	$117,599
Salary range	Between $56,000 And $111,000	Between $87,000 And $158,000
Highest paying City	-	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	-	California
Best paying company	-	Credit Karma
Best paying industry	-	Start-up

Differences between product administrator and data product manager education

There are a few differences between a product administrator and a data product manager in terms of educational background:

	Product Administrator	Data Product Manager
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 65%	Bachelor's Degree, 72%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	California State University - Bakersfield	University of Georgia

Product administrator vs data product manager demographics

Here are the differences between product administrators' and data product managers' demographics:

	Product Administrator	Data Product Manager
Average age	47	39
Gender ratio	Male, 40.3% Female, 59.7%	Male, 64.2% Female, 35.8%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 8.0% Unknown, 4.7% Hispanic or Latino, 19.2% Asian, 5.3% White, 62.1% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.6%	Black or African American, 3.0% Unknown, 5.3% Hispanic or Latino, 8.7% Asian, 8.2% White, 74.6% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%
LGBT Percentage	8%	10%

Differences between product administrator and data product manager duties and responsibilities

Product administrator example responsibilities.

Manage product updates via EDI.
Manage customer accounts, submitting payroll, and licensing documentation while providing excellent customer service to enroll families and potential families.
Rely upon to resolve and identify QA and other issues.
Develop pricing and BOM structure for more consistent results in quoting and design.
Create documents for internal and client distribution and work with SharePoint site administration.
Update Expedia inventory per the vendor's instructions within Expedia's ERP and CRM databases.

Data product manager example responsibilities.

Manage translation and QA testing of data warehouse software.
Align with customer need for market fundamentals, GIS layers, and infrastructure asset trackers by managing portfolio of custom datasets.
Manage horizontal UX prototyping resource needs, implementing effective collaborative expectations and cross-product timeline allocation strategies.
Contribute to and attend scrum activities (stand-ups, poker planning, sprint planning, sprint review, retrospective).
Utilize SQL to support data-driven analysis and decision processes to inform project prioritization, assess feature effectiveness, and troubleshoot issues.
Manage horizontal UX prototyping resource needs, implementing effective collaborative expectations and cross-product timeline allocation strategies.

Product administrator vs data product manager skills

Common product administrator skills

Data Entry, 11%
Product Support, 8%
Product Data, 7%
Financial Analysis, 7%
Purchase Orders, 6%
SQL Server, 4%

Common data product manager skills

Product Management, 14%
BI, 12%
QA, 9%
Regression, 9%
Product Roadmap, 6%
Project Management, 5%

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