Associate Salary in United States during 2025
💰 The median Associate Salary in United States during 2025 is USD 130,000
✏️ This salary info is based on 1181 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
- 1181
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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 | 3676 jobs Engineering | 3178 jobs SQL | 2703 jobs Machine Learning | 2312 jobs Computer Science | 2217 jobs Research | 2072 jobs Statistics | 1795 jobs Security | 1524 jobs Data analysis | 1521 jobs R | 1435 jobs AWS | 1396 jobs Testing | 1365 jobs Architecture | 1332 jobs Data Analytics | 1302 jobs Finance | 1286 jobs Agile | 1273 jobs Data management | 1269 jobs Mathematics | 1259 jobs Data quality | 1248 jobs Azure | 1215 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 | 3935 jobs Health care | 1607 jobs Flex hours | 1238 jobs Competitive pay | 1051 jobs Team events | 851 jobs Startup environment | 847 jobs Equity / stock options | 810 jobs Salary bonus | 791 jobs Insurance | 761 jobs Flex vacation | 671 jobs Parental leave | 581 jobs Medical leave | 507 jobs Wellness | 501 jobs 401(k) matching | 351 jobs Relocation support | 322 jobs Transparency | 258 jobs Conferences | 245 jobs Fitness / gym | 122 jobs Home office stipend | 100 jobs Flexible spending account | 63 jobsRelated salaries
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