Associate Salary in 2025
💰 The median Associate Salary in 2025 is USD 125,250
✏️ This salary info is based on 1371 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average Associate salary lies between USD 90,000 and USD 168,000 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
- 1371
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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 | 4055 jobs Engineering | 3509 jobs SQL | 2989 jobs Machine Learning | 2536 jobs Computer Science | 2420 jobs Research | 2256 jobs Statistics | 1968 jobs Security | 1689 jobs Data analysis | 1686 jobs R | 1584 jobs AWS | 1544 jobs Testing | 1524 jobs Architecture | 1486 jobs Data Analytics | 1443 jobs Finance | 1432 jobs Agile | 1397 jobs Mathematics | 1375 jobs Data quality | 1374 jobs Data management | 1373 jobs Azure | 1370 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 | 4320 jobs Health care | 1749 jobs Flex hours | 1353 jobs Competitive pay | 1157 jobs Startup environment | 926 jobs Team events | 914 jobs Equity / stock options | 886 jobs Salary bonus | 858 jobs Insurance | 849 jobs Flex vacation | 724 jobs Parental leave | 640 jobs Medical leave | 553 jobs Wellness | 540 jobs 401(k) matching | 381 jobs Relocation support | 351 jobs Transparency | 278 jobs Conferences | 265 jobs Fitness / gym | 128 jobs Home office stipend | 104 jobs Flexible spending account | 68 jobsRelated salaries
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