Senior administrative technician vs lead administrator

The differences between senior administrative technicians and lead administrators can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 1-2 years to become both a senior administrative technician and a lead administrator. Additionally, a senior administrative technician has an average salary of $115,702, which is higher than the $94,444 average annual salary of a lead administrator.

The top three skills for a senior administrative technician include infrastructure, SCCM and troubleshoot. The most important skills for a lead administrator are payroll, office equipment, and expense reports.

Senior administrative technician vs lead administrator overview

	Senior Administrative Technician	Lead Administrator
Yearly salary	$115,702	$94,444
Hourly rate	$55.63	$45.41
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	56,951	57,229
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 49%	Bachelor's Degree, 53%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	2	2

Senior administrative technician vs lead administrator salary

Senior administrative technicians and lead administrators have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Senior Administrative Technician	Lead Administrator
Average salary	$115,702	$94,444
Salary range	Between $85,000 And $156,000	Between $63,000 And $141,000
Highest paying City	San Francisco, CA	Richmond, CA
Highest paying state	Idaho	Oregon
Best paying company	Yahoo	Koch Industries
Best paying industry	Pharmaceutical	Finance

Differences between senior administrative technician and lead administrator education

There are a few differences between a senior administrative technician and a lead administrator in terms of educational background:

	Senior Administrative Technician	Lead Administrator
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 49%	Bachelor's Degree, 53%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	Stanford University	Stanford University

Senior administrative technician vs lead administrator demographics

Here are the differences between senior administrative technicians' and lead administrators' demographics:

	Senior Administrative Technician	Lead Administrator
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 54.5% Female, 45.5%	Male, 37.2% Female, 62.8%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 9.1% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.8% Asian, 8.7% White, 64.0% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%	Black or African American, 9.2% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.9% Asian, 9.5% White, 63.0% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between senior administrative technician and lead administrator duties and responsibilities

Senior administrative technician example responsibilities.

Manage paper and electronic information storage and retrieval via Sharepoint.
Recommend, engineer and manage office systems, including centralize productivity and communication systems such as e-mail and centralize desktop environments.
Work closely with water technicians to troubleshoot and problem solve.
Work with the SharePoint farm administrators and developers to identify and troubleshoot problems in a timely manner.
Trouble shooting and resolving a wide variety and range of PC, hardware, software, and printer problems.
Handle installation and configuration of SCO Unix servers hosting refrigeration industry software.

Lead administrator example responsibilities.

Manage and coordinate office operations and procedures to include payroll preparation, information management/filing systems, and supply requisitions.
Support and troubleshoot all claims questions and provide assistance with more advance issues.
Provide initiatives and suggestions for performance tuning of applications, script auto deployment plans, troubleshoot complex production issues.
Create and implement migration plans to new SharePoint environments.
Provide application training for company's custom provisioning application.
Implement SSO configuration and user provisioning on IDM environments.

Senior administrative technician vs lead administrator skills

Common senior administrative technician skills

Infrastructure, 18%
SCCM, 11%
Troubleshoot, 11%
SQL, 10%
Customer Service, 4%
Windows Server, 4%

Common lead administrator skills

Payroll, 10%
Office Equipment, 8%
Expense Reports, 6%
Windows, 6%
Data Entry, 5%
PowerPoint, 5%

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