Associate Salary in United States during 2025
💰 The median Associate Salary in United States during 2025 is USD 129,000
✏️ This salary info is based on 1091 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average Associate salary lies between USD 90,000 and USD 170,000 in the United States. 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
- United States
- Salary year
- 2025
- Sample size
- 1091
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Region represents the primary country of residence of an employee during the year (or residence for tax purposes). 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 | 3443 jobs Engineering | 2988 jobs SQL | 2522 jobs Machine Learning | 2179 jobs Computer Science | 2070 jobs Research | 1945 jobs Statistics | 1696 jobs Security | 1421 jobs Data analysis | 1394 jobs R | 1348 jobs AWS | 1313 jobs Testing | 1274 jobs Architecture | 1238 jobs Data Analytics | 1224 jobs Finance | 1214 jobs Data management | 1190 jobs Mathematics | 1190 jobs Agile | 1186 jobs Data quality | 1166 jobs Azure | 1136 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 | 3702 jobs Health care | 1517 jobs Flex hours | 1170 jobs Competitive pay | 987 jobs Team events | 811 jobs Startup environment | 807 jobs Equity / stock options | 775 jobs Salary bonus | 753 jobs Insurance | 714 jobs Flex vacation | 633 jobs Parental leave | 555 jobs Medical leave | 488 jobs Wellness | 479 jobs 401(k) matching | 342 jobs Relocation support | 304 jobs Transparency | 235 jobs Conferences | 234 jobs Fitness / gym | 121 jobs Home office stipend | 97 jobs Flexible spending account | 58 jobsRelated salaries
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