Senior lead operator vs senior advisor

The differences between senior lead operators and senior advisors can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. Additionally, a senior advisor has an average salary of $119,558, which is higher than the $68,921 average annual salary of a senior lead operator.

The top three skills for a senior lead operator include continuous improvement, SR and operational procedures. The most important skills for a senior advisor are healthcare, project management, and risk management.

Senior lead operator vs senior advisor overview

	Senior Lead Operator	Senior Advisor
Yearly salary	$68,921	$119,558
Hourly rate	$33.14	$57.48
Growth rate	7%	10%
Number of jobs	36,589	45,673
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 57%	Bachelor's Degree, 58%
Average age	44	44
Years of experience	-	-

Senior lead operator vs senior advisor salary

Senior lead operators and senior advisors have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Senior Lead Operator	Senior Advisor
Average salary	$68,921	$119,558
Salary range	Between $41,000 And $114,000	Between $87,000 And $162,000
Highest paying City	San Francisco, CA	Richmond, CA
Highest paying state	California	California
Best paying company	Google	Kirkland & Ellis
Best paying industry	-	Professional

Differences between senior lead operator and senior advisor education

There are a few differences between a senior lead operator and a senior advisor in terms of educational background:

	Senior Lead Operator	Senior Advisor
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 57%	Bachelor's Degree, 58%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	Western Carolina University	Western Carolina University

Senior lead operator vs senior advisor demographics

Here are the differences between senior lead operators' and senior advisors' demographics:

	Senior Lead Operator	Senior Advisor
Average age	44	44
Gender ratio	Male, 61.7% Female, 38.3%	Male, 68.2% Female, 31.8%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 6.4% Unknown, 4.6% Hispanic or Latino, 9.4% Asian, 8.8% White, 70.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.4%	Black or African American, 6.4% Unknown, 4.6% Hispanic or Latino, 9.4% Asian, 8.8% White, 70.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.4%
LGBT Percentage	11%	11%

Differences between senior lead operator and senior advisor duties and responsibilities

Senior lead operator example responsibilities.

Help the department achieve and maintain safety standards set by OSHA.
Manage the development and implementation of a PMO infrastructure including responsibility for recruiting, hiring, training and performance management.
Work with engineers and mechanics to troubleshoot equipment.
Team with training liaison to coordinate training across multiple sites without negatively impacting SLA.
Analyze and troubleshoot technical problems within machinery that are utilize in the production area.
Complete all opening activities to ensure all require documentation are ordered for evaluation with in SLA.

Senior advisor example responsibilities.

Manage evaluations and assessments to enhance USAID's utilization of information for decision making in designing and managing programs.
Lead the team evaluating technologies for the next generation access API.
Develop and manage detailed and tailor raining packages for USMC personnel.
Manage CVS source code repository for multiple projects on Linux platform.
Task manage project migration from IBM AIX system to RedHat Linux platform.
Assist QA in managing changes to test environment and develop test plans, including test cases & scripts.

Senior lead operator vs senior advisor skills

Common senior lead operator skills

Continuous Improvement, 26%
SR, 12%
Operational Procedures, 11%
Lean Six Sigma, 6%
SME, 4%
Process Improvement, 4%

Common senior advisor skills

Healthcare, 9%
Project Management, 8%
Risk Management, 8%
Customer Service, 7%
Infrastructure, 5%
PowerPoint, 5%