Rounder vs lead technician

The differences between rounders and lead technicians can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 1-2 years to become both a rounder and a lead technician. Additionally, a lead technician has an average salary of $90,615, which is higher than the $57,592 average annual salary of a rounder.

The top three skills for a rounder include customer service, assembly line and EMR. The most important skills for a lead technician are java, architecture, and digital transformation.

Rounder vs lead technician overview

	Rounder	Lead Technician
Yearly salary	$57,592	$90,615
Hourly rate	$27.69	$43.56
Growth rate	10%	10%
Number of jobs	1,565	250,590
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 42%	Bachelor's Degree, 50%
Average age	42	42
Years of experience	2	2

Rounder vs lead technician salary

Rounders and lead technicians have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Rounder	Lead Technician
Average salary	$57,592	$90,615
Salary range	Between $35,000 And $93,000	Between $67,000 And $121,000
Highest paying City	-	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	-	California
Best paying company	-	Meta
Best paying industry	-	Retail

Differences between rounder and lead technician education

There are a few differences between a rounder and a lead technician in terms of educational background:

	Rounder	Lead Technician
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 42%	Bachelor's Degree, 50%
Most common major	Business	Computer Science
Most common college	Stanford University	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rounder vs lead technician demographics

Here are the differences between rounders' and lead technicians' demographics:

	Rounder	Lead Technician
Average age	42	42
Gender ratio	Male, 53.4% Female, 46.6%	Male, 83.4% Female, 16.6%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 10.8% Unknown, 5.3% Hispanic or Latino, 14.7% Asian, 14.4% White, 54.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.4%	Black or African American, 10.4% Unknown, 5.3% Hispanic or Latino, 15.1% Asian, 15.1% White, 53.6% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.4%
LGBT Percentage	11%	11%

Differences between rounder and lead technician duties and responsibilities

Rounder example responsibilities.

Manage devices by configuring network topology and making DNS records updates/creation.
Champion the selection and ultimate use of Java and object-orient design and programming on a web-base financial inventory management system.
Champion the selection and ultimate use of Java and object-orient design and programming on a web-base financial inventory management system.

Lead technician example responsibilities.

Manage and support the Cisco base corporate remote access VPN solution.
Manage the third party IP provider relationship and implement all the bridges between AXI4 and internal buses.
Used JIRA to manage the product backlog, tasks assignments, project burn-down rate and for velocity tracking purposes.
Manage product test support of new designs used for testing, write technical documentation in HTML improving department processes and procedures.
Manage customer functional areas of desktop support, field service, office services and network support to coordinate timely issue resolution.
Configure and manage JGroup multicasting communication for apache tomcat web servers.

Rounder vs lead technician skills

Common rounder skills

Customer Service, 60%
Assembly Line, 17%
EMR, 12%
Front Desk, 11%

Common lead technician skills

Java, 10%
Architecture, 7%
Digital Transformation, 6%
Customer Service, 6%
Database, 4%
HTML, 3%