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
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.
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- Associate
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- all levels
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- global/worldwide
- Salary year
- 2025
- Sample size
- 987
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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 | 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 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 | 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 jobsRelated salaries
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