Senior installer vs lead technician

The differences between senior installers 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 senior installer and a lead technician. Additionally, a lead technician has an average salary of $90,615, which is higher than the $49,109 average annual salary of a senior installer.

The top three skills for a senior installer include hand tools, safety regulations and fiber optic. The most important skills for a lead technician are java, architecture, and digital transformation.

Senior installer vs lead technician overview

	Senior Installer	Lead Technician
Yearly salary	$49,109	$90,615
Hourly rate	$23.61	$43.56
Growth rate	10%	10%
Number of jobs	15,240	250,590
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 31%	Bachelor's Degree, 50%
Average age	42	42
Years of experience	2	2

Senior installer vs lead technician salary

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

	Senior Installer	Lead Technician
Average salary	$49,109	$90,615
Salary range	Between $31,000 And $75,000	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 senior installer and lead technician education

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

	Senior Installer	Lead Technician
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 31%	Bachelor's Degree, 50%
Most common major	Business	Computer Science
Most common college	-	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Senior installer vs lead technician demographics

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

	Senior Installer	Lead Technician
Average age	42	42
Gender ratio	Male, 93.9% Female, 6.1%	Male, 83.4% Female, 16.6%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 11.3% Unknown, 5.4% Hispanic or Latino, 16.7% Asian, 10.5% White, 55.7% 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 senior installer and lead technician duties and responsibilities

Senior installer example responsibilities.

Manage crew working on Nortel CDMA network doing upgrades at cell site.
Install, test, and support DSL, Internet, voice, and other technologies.
Verify, organize and sort deliveries of computer and telecommunication equipment order throughout the company.
Maintain all telecommunication circuit orders and resolving any issues from hardware or remote site malfunctions.
Repair HVAC systems and restore functionality to malfunctioning systems; perform preventative maintenance and routine servicing.
Install and configure DSL equipment, VLANs, switches, SMS servers and other types of high-speed networks.

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.

Senior installer vs lead technician skills

Common senior installer skills

Hand Tools, 15%
Safety Regulations, 13%
Fiber Optic, 9%
Installation Process, 8%
Battery, 6%
PV, 6%

Common lead technician skills

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