Consultant Salary in United States during 2025

💰 The median Consultant Salary in United States during 2025 is USD 117,300

✏️ This salary info is based on 678 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average Consultant salary lies between USD 87,000 and USD 147,720 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
Consultant
Experience
all levels
Region
United States
Salary year
2025
Sample size
678
Top 10%
$ 190,000
Top 25%
$ 147,720
Median
$ 117,300
Bottom 25%
$ 87,000
Bottom 10%
$ 72,000

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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Salary trend

Top 20 Job Tags for Consultant roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with Consultant job listings are Python, SQL and Engineering. 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 | 2572 jobs SQL | 2013 jobs Engineering | 1850 jobs Machine Learning | 1619 jobs Consulting | 1559 jobs Computer Science | 1420 jobs Azure | 1142 jobs Architecture | 1107 jobs R | 1092 jobs Power BI | 1090 jobs Statistics | 1051 jobs AWS | 1012 jobs Security | 951 jobs Tableau | 918 jobs Data management | 783 jobs Data Analytics | 779 jobs Agile | 774 jobs Mathematics | 774 jobs ETL | 764 jobs Testing | 762 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Consultant roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with Consultant job listings are Career development, Flex hours and Health care. 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 | 2383 jobs Flex hours | 995 jobs Health care | 918 jobs Team events | 797 jobs Equity / stock options | 639 jobs Startup environment | 589 jobs Insurance | 550 jobs Competitive pay | 539 jobs Salary bonus | 461 jobs Medical leave | 415 jobs Parental leave | 409 jobs Flex vacation | 366 jobs Wellness | 226 jobs 401(k) matching | 195 jobs Fitness / gym | 161 jobs Transparency | 123 jobs Conferences | 109 jobs Fertility benefits | 85 jobs Flexible spending account | 83 jobs Relocation support | 65 jobs

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