Associate Salary in United States during 2025
💰 The median Associate Salary in United States during 2025 is USD 128,800
✏️ This salary info is based on 809 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
- 809
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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 | 2401 jobs Engineering | 2072 jobs SQL | 1757 jobs Machine Learning | 1530 jobs Computer Science | 1446 jobs Research | 1414 jobs Statistics | 1197 jobs Security | 994 jobs Data analysis | 977 jobs R | 944 jobs AWS | 934 jobs Testing | 895 jobs Architecture | 878 jobs Data Analytics | 857 jobs Data management | 853 jobs Agile | 840 jobs Data quality | 840 jobs Finance | 839 jobs Azure | 812 jobs Mathematics | 804 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 | 2604 jobs Health care | 1074 jobs Flex hours | 842 jobs Competitive pay | 699 jobs Team events | 567 jobs Salary bonus | 545 jobs Startup environment | 541 jobs Equity / stock options | 535 jobs Insurance | 503 jobs Flex vacation | 457 jobs Parental leave | 371 jobs Wellness | 346 jobs Medical leave | 335 jobs 401(k) matching | 236 jobs Relocation support | 191 jobs Transparency | 159 jobs Conferences | 150 jobs Fitness / gym | 90 jobs Home office stipend | 68 jobs Flexible spending account | 46 jobsRelated salaries
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