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
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.
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- Director
- Experience
- all levels
- Region
- global/worldwide
- Salary year
- 2025
- Sample size
- 142
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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 | 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 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 | 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 jobsRelated salaries
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