Associate Salary in 2025
💰 The median Associate Salary in 2025 is USD 125,250
✏️ This salary info is based on 813 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average Associate salary lies between USD 89,000 and USD 170,000 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.
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- Associate
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- global/worldwide
- Salary year
- 2025
- Sample size
- 813
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All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.
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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 | 2299 jobs Engineering | 1984 jobs SQL | 1690 jobs Machine Learning | 1465 jobs Computer Science | 1378 jobs Research | 1354 jobs Statistics | 1137 jobs Security | 948 jobs Data analysis | 945 jobs AWS | 899 jobs R | 893 jobs Testing | 856 jobs Architecture | 848 jobs Data Analytics | 820 jobs Data management | 820 jobs Data quality | 816 jobs Finance | 810 jobs Agile | 807 jobs Azure | 786 jobs Mathematics | 763 jobsTop 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 | 2504 jobs Health care | 1033 jobs Flex hours | 797 jobs Competitive pay | 667 jobs Team events | 552 jobs Startup environment | 523 jobs Salary bonus | 521 jobs Equity / stock options | 510 jobs Insurance | 477 jobs Flex vacation | 433 jobs Parental leave | 352 jobs Wellness | 333 jobs Medical leave | 319 jobs 401(k) matching | 224 jobs Relocation support | 179 jobs Transparency | 155 jobs Conferences | 145 jobs Fitness / gym | 84 jobs Home office stipend | 64 jobs Flexible spending account | 44 jobsRelated salaries
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