Associate Salary in 2025

💰 The median Associate Salary in 2025 is USD 125,250

✏️ This salary info is based on 987 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average Associate salary lies between USD 90,000 and USD 169,900 globally. It represents the overall compensation/gross salary amount for the working year (before deductions like social security, taxes and other contributions), not including equity/stock options or similar benefits.

Job title
Associate
Experience
all levels
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
987
Top 10%
$ 216,000
Top 25%
$ 169,900
Median
$ 125,250
Bottom 25%
$ 90,000
Bottom 10%
$ 69,200

All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.

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Salary trend

Top 20 Job Tags for Associate roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with Associate job listings are Python, Engineering and SQL. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job tags in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where associated with them during that period:

Python | 2714 jobs Engineering | 2329 jobs SQL | 1989 jobs Machine Learning | 1712 jobs Computer Science | 1621 jobs Research | 1589 jobs Statistics | 1350 jobs Security | 1109 jobs Data analysis | 1106 jobs R | 1065 jobs AWS | 1038 jobs Testing | 1013 jobs Architecture | 973 jobs Finance | 968 jobs Data Analytics | 958 jobs Data management | 953 jobs Agile | 944 jobs Data quality | 938 jobs Mathematics | 910 jobs Azure | 905 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Associate roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with Associate job listings are Career development, Health care and Flex hours. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job perks or benefits in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where offering them during that period:

Career development | 2907 jobs Health care | 1195 jobs Flex hours | 932 jobs Competitive pay | 782 jobs Team events | 630 jobs Salary bonus | 613 jobs Startup environment | 607 jobs Equity / stock options | 591 jobs Insurance | 558 jobs Flex vacation | 507 jobs Parental leave | 414 jobs Wellness | 388 jobs Medical leave | 386 jobs 401(k) matching | 267 jobs Relocation support | 219 jobs Conferences | 184 jobs Transparency | 182 jobs Fitness / gym | 100 jobs Home office stipend | 75 jobs Flexible spending account | 49 jobs

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Associate @ $ 81,600 (global) - Entry-level / Junior Details
Associate @ $ 129,000 (United States) Details
Associate @ $ 124,400 (United States) - Senior-level / Expert Details
Associate @ $ 81,600 (United States) - Entry-level / Junior Details
Associate @ $ 162,500 (United States) - Executive-level / Director Details
Associate @ $ 132,275 (United States) - Mid-level / Intermediate Details
Associate @ $ 45,752 (United Kingdom) Details
Associate @ $ 44,450 (United Kingdom) - Mid-level / Intermediate Details
Associate @ $ 97,650 (Canada) - Senior-level / Expert Details
Associate @ $ 110,000 (Canada) - Mid-level / Intermediate Details
Associate @ $ 109,000 (Canada) Details
Associate @ $ 135,814 (Australia) Details
Associate @ $ 135,814 (Australia) - Mid-level / Intermediate Details

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