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 1233 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
- 1233
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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 | 4002 jobs Engineering | 3457 jobs SQL | 2947 jobs Machine Learning | 2502 jobs Computer Science | 2399 jobs Research | 2226 jobs Statistics | 1939 jobs Security | 1659 jobs Data analysis | 1657 jobs R | 1555 jobs AWS | 1519 jobs Testing | 1503 jobs Architecture | 1460 jobs Data Analytics | 1418 jobs Finance | 1415 jobs Agile | 1382 jobs Mathematics | 1363 jobs Data management | 1355 jobs Data quality | 1350 jobs Azure | 1345 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 | 4256 jobs Health care | 1726 jobs Flex hours | 1330 jobs Competitive pay | 1146 jobs Startup environment | 913 jobs Team events | 905 jobs Equity / stock options | 873 jobs Salary bonus | 845 jobs Insurance | 830 jobs Flex vacation | 715 jobs Parental leave | 630 jobs Medical leave | 542 jobs Wellness | 532 jobs 401(k) matching | 371 jobs Relocation support | 347 jobs Transparency | 274 jobs Conferences | 261 jobs Fitness / gym | 127 jobs Home office stipend | 101 jobs Flexible spending account | 67 jobsRelated salaries
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