Wide area network administrator vs storage administrator

The differences between wide area network administrators and storage 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 wide area network administrator and a storage administrator. Additionally, a storage administrator has an average salary of $92,434, which is higher than the $61,805 average annual salary of a wide area network administrator.

The top three skills for a wide area network administrator include switches, PC and tcp ip. The most important skills for a storage administrator are linux, switches, and NAS.

Wide area network administrator vs storage administrator overview

	Wide Area Network Administrator	Storage Administrator
Yearly salary	$61,805	$92,434
Hourly rate	$29.71	$44.44
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	83,700	71,753
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 44%	Bachelor's Degree, 65%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	2	2

Wide area network administrator vs storage administrator salary

Wide area network administrators and storage administrators have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Wide Area Network Administrator	Storage Administrator
Average salary	$61,805	$92,434
Salary range	Between $42,000 And $90,000	Between $65,000 And $130,000
Highest paying City	-	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	-	California
Best paying company	-	The Citadel
Best paying industry	-	Health Care

Differences between wide area network administrator and storage administrator education

There are a few differences between a wide area network administrator and a storage administrator in terms of educational background:

	Wide Area Network Administrator	Storage Administrator
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 44%	Bachelor's Degree, 65%
Most common major	Business	Computer Science
Most common college	University of Pennsylvania	-

Wide area network administrator vs storage administrator demographics

Here are the differences between wide area network administrators' and storage administrators' demographics:

	Wide Area Network Administrator	Storage Administrator
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 89.5% Female, 10.5%	Male, 89.3% Female, 10.7%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 5.6% Unknown, 4.8% Hispanic or Latino, 9.4% Asian, 9.6% White, 70.3% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%	Black or African American, 8.0% Unknown, 5.0% Hispanic or Latino, 11.7% Asian, 14.0% White, 61.0% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between wide area network administrator and storage administrator duties and responsibilities

Wide area network administrator example responsibilities.

Manage and support corporate Linux Production/Development servers.
Coordinate marketing brainstorming meetings, prepare minutes, manage project follow-up, and create summary PowerPoint presentations.
Maintain and update Novell, Microsoft, and Linux servers.
Create a macro driven pc base budget preparation system.
Administer and install Cisco switches, routers, firewalls and VPNs.
Participate in projects requiring installation, configuration and support for network routers and switches, firewalls and effective application load balancing.

Storage administrator example responsibilities.

Accomplish using mediums such as: FICON, SNA, ESCON, IP, FC, & ISCSI.
Manage, and deploy LUNS from EMC storage frames to multiple servers using the UNISHERE for VNX and VMAX.
Support teams which manage CentOS.
Manage and support SRDF replications between DR data centers.
Create CIFS, setting up permissions as per customer requirements and manage DFS.
Manage users and groups on a large scale in NIS and LDAP environments.

Wide area network administrator vs storage administrator skills

Common wide area network administrator skills

Switches, 42%
PC, 31%
Tcp Ip, 28%

Common storage administrator skills

Linux, 7%
Switches, 6%
NAS, 5%
Troubleshoot, 5%
Isilon, 4%
VNX, 4%

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