Data Governance Salary in 2025

💰 The median Data Governance Salary in 2025 is USD 136,622

✏️ This salary info is based on 12 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average Data Governance salary lies between USD 44,000 and USD 207,890 globally. 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
Data Governance
Experience
all levels
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
12
Top 10%
$ 220,000
Top 25%
$ 207,890
Median
$ 136,622
Bottom 25%
$ 44,000
Bottom 10%
$ 40,421

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 Data Governance roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with Data Governance job listings are Data governance, Data management and Data quality. 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:

Data governance | 123 jobs Data management | 90 jobs Data quality | 82 jobs Security | 49 jobs Privacy | 41 jobs Engineering | 35 jobs Architecture | 28 jobs Computer Science | 27 jobs SQL | 26 jobs Finance | 26 jobs Excel | 25 jobs Informatica | 20 jobs Consulting | 18 jobs Banking | 18 jobs Testing | 18 jobs Azure | 18 jobs Data analysis | 17 jobs Data Analytics | 16 jobs Classification | 16 jobs Data strategy | 16 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Data Governance roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with Data Governance 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 | 78 jobs Health care | 52 jobs Flex hours | 41 jobs Competitive pay | 33 jobs Insurance | 33 jobs Flex vacation | 28 jobs Salary bonus | 27 jobs Team events | 24 jobs Medical leave | 24 jobs Equity / stock options | 20 jobs Parental leave | 18 jobs Wellness | 16 jobs Startup environment | 16 jobs Transparency | 10 jobs 401(k) matching | 8 jobs Fitness / gym | 3 jobs Fertility benefits | 3 jobs Travel | 2 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 2 jobs Flat hierarchy | 1 jobs

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