Production administrator vs production analyst

The differences between production administrators and production analysts can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. While it typically takes 1-2 years to become a production administrator, becoming a production analyst takes usually requires 4-6 years. Additionally, a production analyst has an average salary of $65,302, which is higher than the $39,943 average annual salary of a production administrator.

The top three skills for a production administrator include data entry, purchase orders and windows. The most important skills for a production analyst are data entry, financial analysis, and windows.

Production administrator vs production analyst overview

	Production Administrator	Production Analyst
Yearly salary	$39,943	$65,302
Hourly rate	$19.20	$31.40
Growth rate	3%	19%
Number of jobs	102,025	75,978
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 53%	Bachelor's Degree, 65%
Average age	48	37
Years of experience	2	6

What does a production administrator do?

Production administrators support all artistic and production functions with expert administrative support to the entire production team. Part of their responsibilities includes maintaining the annual production expenses and production calendar, researching potential venues and maintaining a venue database, and preparing expense reports for artists and production staff. These administrators must be excellent in organization and planning skills, comfortable and flexible with evolving roles, and highly proficient in computer skills such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Office.

What does a production analyst do?

Production Analysts help manage the production flow of a company's goods or data. They are responsible for optimizing labor cost, volume, and efficiency of production, ensuring quality assurance, correcting equipment failure and hardware problem as well as monitoring production process proactively improving from slowdowns or bottlenecks. They also coordinate employee training or retraining on software or controls to improve efficiency. Production Analysts work with other teams to estimate production runs within the manufacturing or data process. They create production reports for customers and management.

Production administrator vs production analyst salary

Production administrators and production analysts have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Production Administrator	Production Analyst
Average salary	$39,943	$65,302
Salary range	Between $26,000 And $60,000	Between $46,000 And $90,000
Highest paying City	Binghamton, NY	Seattle, WA
Highest paying state	Connecticut	Washington
Best paying company	Astronics	Apple
Best paying industry	Manufacturing	Finance

Differences between production administrator and production analyst education

There are a few differences between a production administrator and a production analyst in terms of educational background:

	Production Administrator	Production Analyst
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 53%	Bachelor's Degree, 65%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	Northwestern University	University of Georgia

Production administrator vs production analyst demographics

Here are the differences between production administrators' and production analysts' demographics:

	Production Administrator	Production Analyst
Average age	48	37
Gender ratio	Male, 33.7% Female, 66.3%	Male, 57.2% Female, 42.8%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 3.8% Unknown, 3.9% Hispanic or Latino, 13.0% Asian, 9.0% White, 69.8% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.5%	Black or African American, 5.2% Unknown, 5.0% Hispanic or Latino, 12.4% Asian, 11.0% White, 66.3% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.1%
LGBT Percentage	8%	10%

Differences between production administrator and production analyst duties and responsibilities

Production administrator example responsibilities.

Establish operating policies and procedures and attain SNF Medicare certification.
Supervise and train new employees on (ISO) internal policies and procedures.
Work with other internal auditors to ensure compliance with ISO, PED & TPED requirements.
Work closely with plant manager to aid in his understanding of data information from ERP and financial systems.
Prepare shipping documents per customer specification utilize through the customers' logistics portal.
Develop, analyze, and compile report information for weekly organizational logistics conferences.

Production analyst example responsibilities.

Manage and order raw material inventory for active production work orders utilizing MRP system in JD Edwards.
Manage and control the mainframe and peripheral data processing infrastructure.
Manage and successfully deliver multiple customer migration efforts to allow processing moves from mainframe environments to client/server environments.
Create, run and troubleshoot UNIX and Perl scripts to prepare and process data from client hard drives.
Used OMEGAMON to investigate any potential contention or resource problem in IMS, CICS or the MVS system.
Establish new accounts, process contracts, invoices, payroll, handle all petty cash and expense reports for the shows.

Production administrator vs production analyst skills

Common production administrator skills

Data Entry, 21%
Purchase Orders, 10%
Windows, 8%
Payroll, 7%
Production Schedules, 5%
SQL, 4%

Common production analyst skills

Data Entry, 8%
Financial Analysis, 7%
Windows, 7%
Strong Analytical, 6%
Troubleshoot, 6%
Production Process, 5%

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