Director Salary in 2025

💰 The median Director Salary in 2025 is USD 191,700

✏️ This salary info is based on 142 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average Director salary lies between USD 155,000 and USD 255,000 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.

Job title
Director
Experience
all levels
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
142
Top 10%
$ 300,000
Top 25%
$ 255,000
Median
$ 191,700
Bottom 25%
$ 155,000
Bottom 10%
$ 125,000

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 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 | 1732 jobs Machine Learning | 1524 jobs Python | 1357 jobs Computer Science | 1329 jobs Research | 1138 jobs Statistics | 1047 jobs SQL | 991 jobs Architecture | 925 jobs R | 891 jobs Security | 858 jobs Data management | 800 jobs AWS | 726 jobs Data governance | 653 jobs Data Analytics | 648 jobs Privacy | 648 jobs Agile | 616 jobs Data quality | 599 jobs Testing | 596 jobs Pipelines | 582 jobs Mathematics | 580 jobs

Top 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 | 2390 jobs Health care | 1578 jobs Equity / stock options | 942 jobs Startup environment | 937 jobs Competitive pay | 916 jobs Salary bonus | 823 jobs Flex hours | 804 jobs Insurance | 777 jobs Flex vacation | 699 jobs Team events | 653 jobs Medical leave | 633 jobs Parental leave | 623 jobs 401(k) matching | 479 jobs Wellness | 463 jobs Transparency | 279 jobs Conferences | 209 jobs Relocation support | 147 jobs Flexible spending account | 108 jobs Travel | 107 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 92 jobs

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Director @ $ 178,939 (United States) - Executive-level / Director Details
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