Senior program administrator vs lead administrator

The differences between senior program administrators and lead administrators can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. Additionally, a lead administrator has an average salary of $94,444, which is higher than the $69,722 average annual salary of a senior program administrator.

The top three skills for a senior program administrator include SR, sharepoint and financial reports. The most important skills for a lead administrator are payroll, office equipment, and expense reports.

Senior program administrator vs lead administrator overview

	Senior Program Administrator	Lead Administrator
Yearly salary	$69,722	$94,444
Hourly rate	$33.52	$45.41
Growth rate	7%	5%
Number of jobs	113,066	57,229
Job satisfaction	3	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 67%	Bachelor's Degree, 53%
Average age	47	43
Years of experience	-	2

Senior program administrator vs lead administrator salary

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

	Senior Program Administrator	Lead Administrator
Average salary	$69,722	$94,444
Salary range	Between $44,000 And $110,000	Between $63,000 And $141,000
Highest paying City	Oxnard, CA	Richmond, CA
Highest paying state	California	Oregon
Best paying company	CenterPoint Energy	Koch Industries
Best paying industry	Manufacturing	Finance

Differences between senior program administrator and lead administrator education

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

	Senior Program Administrator	Lead Administrator
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 67%	Bachelor's Degree, 53%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	University of Pennsylvania	Stanford University

Senior program administrator vs lead administrator demographics

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

	Senior Program Administrator	Lead Administrator
Average age	47	43
Gender ratio	Male, 34.7% Female, 65.3%	Male, 37.2% Female, 62.8%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 8.0% Unknown, 4.7% Hispanic or Latino, 13.5% Asian, 6.9% White, 66.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.7%	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	10%	9%

Differences between senior program administrator and lead administrator duties and responsibilities

Senior program administrator example responsibilities.

Manage U.S. military, DoD, civilian, and foreign military production contracts.
Lead the introduction and upgrade of wireless infrastructure at remote locations to ensure adherence with internal and international wireless standards.
Lead the effort to revitalize the collaborative document share portal by moving to a user-friendly SharePoint base site.
Analyze, prepare, and submit proposals for U.S. Government, DoD, NASA, and foreign military customers.
Represent the logistics business division for all quality relate issues including process development for all ISO and Non-ISO certify warehouse locations.
Document entire A/R position responsibilities, processes and procedures.

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 program administrator vs lead administrator skills

Common senior program administrator skills

SR, 12%
SharePoint, 11%
Financial Reports, 10%
Technical Assistance, 6%
Microsoft Project, 5%
R, 4%

Common lead administrator skills

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

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