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

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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.

Job title
Director
Experience
all levels
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
322
Top 10%
$ 320,000
Top 25%
$ 264,000
Median
$ 200,000
Bottom 25%
$ 160,000
Bottom 10%
$ 130,000

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 | 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 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 | 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 jobs

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