Senior program administrator vs project director

The differences between senior program administrators and project directors can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. Additionally, a project director has an average salary of $107,396, 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 project director are project management, oversight, and customer satisfaction.

Senior program administrator vs project director overview

	Senior Program Administrator	Project Director
Yearly salary	$69,722	$107,396
Hourly rate	$33.52	$51.63
Growth rate	7%	-
Number of jobs	113,066	116,968
Job satisfaction	3	5
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 67%	Bachelor's Degree, 66%
Average age	47	47
Years of experience	-	-

Senior program administrator vs project director salary

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

	Senior Program Administrator	Project Director
Average salary	$69,722	$107,396
Salary range	Between $44,000 And $110,000	Between $70,000 And $162,000
Highest paying City	Oxnard, CA	Las Vegas, NV
Highest paying state	California	Nevada
Best paying company	CenterPoint Energy	Fried Frank
Best paying industry	Manufacturing	Technology

Differences between senior program administrator and project director education

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

	Senior Program Administrator	Project Director
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 67%	Bachelor's Degree, 66%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	University of Pennsylvania	University of Pennsylvania

Senior program administrator vs project director demographics

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

	Senior Program Administrator	Project Director
Average age	47	47
Gender ratio	Male, 34.7% Female, 65.3%	Male, 56.2% Female, 43.8%
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, 7.5% Unknown, 4.7% Hispanic or Latino, 12.5% Asian, 8.8% White, 65.9% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.7%
LGBT Percentage	10%	10%

Differences between senior program administrator and project director 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.

Project director example responsibilities.

Provide direction and guidance to Americas regional executives with all aspects of managing their regions in order to achieve business goals.
Manage commercial real estate, adaptive reuse development project.
Create, maintain, and manage software development project schedules according to PMI standards.
Manage customer service center issues spanning Americas, European, and Asian delivery centers.
Refine and develop strong/functional on-site OCI management teams to ensure project EPC objectives are achieve.
Manage offshore / onshore test teams through entire SDLC for major, minor and hotfix releases.

Senior program administrator vs project director skills

Common senior program administrator skills

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

Common project director skills

Project Management, 20%
Oversight, 19%
Customer Satisfaction, 8%
HR, 5%
Adaptive, 5%
ERP, 4%

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Updated January 8, 2025

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