Webmaster / Administrator

Career Area: Information Technology

Occupation Group: Network and Systems Support

Salary

Percentile wages tell how much a certain percentage of an overall population in a geographic area or within a given industry or field makes. The percentile wage estimate is the value of a wage below which a certain percent of workers fall.

An example would be the 25th percentile, 25 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 75 percent earn more than the estimated wage value. At the 75th percentile, 75 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 25 percent earn more than the estimated wage value.

A typical Webmaster / Administrator earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $64,341

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $65,762

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Maintains websites for companies and organizations. Updates content, checks for broken links or problems with operating the site. May respond to user comments.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Webmaster / Administrator is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Creativity: Mental characteristic that allows a person to think outside of the box, which results in innovative or different approaches to a particular task.
• Detail-Oriented: A detail oriented person is someone who pays attention to the details and can make a conscious effort to understand causes instead of just the effects, and that does this in a second nature type of way.
• Writing: Experience expressing business messages effectively in written form. This may include planning drafting and revising as necessary.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Content Management: Content management (CM), is a set of processes and technologies that supports the collection, managing, and publishing of information in any form or medium.
• Web Content Management: Web content management (WCM) is an application for creating, storing, managing and publishing web page content, which may be in the form of text, audio, graphics, video, etc.
• Content Management Systems (CMS): Content management (CM), is a set of processes and technologies that supports the collection, managing, and publishing of information in any form or medium.
• Web Site Design: The term web design is normally used to describe the design process relating to the front-end design of a website including writing mark up. Web design partially overlaps web engineering in the broader scope of web development.
• Project Management: Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Webmaster / Administrator that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Adobe Experience Manager (AEM): Working experience of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), which is a digital experience management solution for marketers and IT to design and deliver experiences across web, mobile, in store, and any end point in the customer journey.
• Web Content Development: Web content development is the process of researching, writing, gathering, organizing, and editing information for publication on websites.
• Online Advertising: Online advertising, also called online marketing or Internet advertising or web advertising, is a form of marketing and advertising which uses the Internet to deliver promotional marketing messages to consumers.
• HyperText Markup Language: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for creating web pages and web applications.
• Adobe Analytics: Working experience of Adobe Analytics. Adobe Analytics is an industry leading solution that empowers you to understand your customers as people what they want, need, and believe.

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills:

• Adobe Experience Manager (AEM): Working experience of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), which is a digital experience management solution for marketers and IT to design and deliver experiences across web, mobile, in store, and any end point in the customer journey.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Web Content Manager
• Webmaster
• Web Content Coordinator
• Web Manager
• Web Administrator

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