Product Analyst vs Solutions Architect
Measured from each occupation's own live postings: mostly different jobs wearing similar names. Posted pay favors the solutions architect by about $46k at the midpoint. Salary bands, both switching directions, and the shared skills below, every number from live postings, refreshed nightly.
Product Analyst
91 open roles · product analyst salary · careers for product analysts
Solutions Architect
600 open roles · solutions architect salary · careers for solutions architects
Switching, both directions
Product Analyst → Solutions Architect
The gap, from solutions architect postings: AWS, Azure, LLMs / Generative AI, LangChain / Agents.
Solutions Architect → Product Analyst
The gap, from product analyst postings: Data Visualization, Agile, A/B Testing, Tableau.
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Quick answers
Which pays more, product analyst or solutions architect?
Solutions Architect, by about $46k a year at the midpoint. Going by postings that state pay, the posted middle band for a product analyst runs $60k–$108k, and for a solutions architect it runs $90k–$170k. We only count postings that state a salary, so these are advertised figures rather than estimates.
Are product analyst and solutions architect the same job?
No. Despite the similar names, their postings ask for mostly different skills.
Can a product analyst become a solutions architect?
Yes, and a typical product analyst profile already covers 24% of what solutions architect postings ask for. The route page lists the exact skills that make up the gap.
Can a solutions architect become a product analyst?
In this direction a typical solutions architect profile covers 33% of what product analyst postings ask for.
Method: each occupation’s salary band is the posted 25th–75th percentile from its own corpus; readiness is coverage of the destination’s posting-skill weight; shared skills are read from the overlap waterfall. Pairs sharing too few skills are not scored in that direction. Refreshed with the nightly scrape.