Director Salary in 2025
💰 The median Director Salary in 2025 is USD 200,000
✏️ This salary info is based on 322 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average Director salary lies between USD 160,000 and USD 264,000 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.
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- Director
- Experience
- all levels
- Region
- global/worldwide
- Salary year
- 2025
- Sample size
- 322
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All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.
Last updated:Top 20 Job Tags for Director roles
The three most common job tag items assiciated with Director job listings are Engineering, Machine Learning and Python. 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:
Engineering | 2024 jobs Machine Learning | 1794 jobs Python | 1600 jobs Computer Science | 1541 jobs Research | 1306 jobs Statistics | 1213 jobs SQL | 1156 jobs Architecture | 1109 jobs R | 1029 jobs Security | 1022 jobs Data management | 915 jobs AWS | 850 jobs Data governance | 766 jobs Privacy | 756 jobs Data Analytics | 748 jobs Agile | 718 jobs Pipelines | 706 jobs Testing | 702 jobs Data quality | 693 jobs Mathematics | 675 jobsTop 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Director roles
The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with Director job listings are Career development, Health care and Equity / stock options. 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 | 2785 jobs Health care | 1840 jobs Equity / stock options | 1110 jobs Startup environment | 1099 jobs Competitive pay | 1058 jobs Salary bonus | 973 jobs Flex hours | 912 jobs Insurance | 884 jobs Flex vacation | 801 jobs Team events | 759 jobs Medical leave | 732 jobs Parental leave | 719 jobs 401(k) matching | 563 jobs Wellness | 538 jobs Transparency | 335 jobs Conferences | 237 jobs Relocation support | 178 jobs Flexible spending account | 121 jobs Travel | 117 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 111 jobsRelated salaries
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