Director Salary in 2025

💰 The median Director Salary in 2025 is USD 199,000

✏️ This salary info is based on 538 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average Director salary lies between USD 160,000 and USD 260,000 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
538
Top 10%
$ 308,100
Top 25%
$ 260,000
Median
$ 199,000
Bottom 25%
$ 160,000
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 | 2312 jobs Machine Learning | 2052 jobs Python | 1835 jobs Computer Science | 1729 jobs Research | 1475 jobs Statistics | 1363 jobs SQL | 1329 jobs Architecture | 1271 jobs R | 1168 jobs Security | 1167 jobs Data management | 1037 jobs AWS | 965 jobs Privacy | 866 jobs Data governance | 865 jobs Data Analytics | 855 jobs Agile | 818 jobs Pipelines | 808 jobs Testing | 795 jobs Data quality | 794 jobs Mathematics | 755 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 | 3132 jobs Health care | 2074 jobs Equity / stock options | 1252 jobs Startup environment | 1243 jobs Competitive pay | 1224 jobs Salary bonus | 1081 jobs Flex hours | 1032 jobs Insurance | 990 jobs Flex vacation | 895 jobs Team events | 869 jobs Medical leave | 824 jobs Parental leave | 809 jobs 401(k) matching | 626 jobs Wellness | 609 jobs Transparency | 380 jobs Conferences | 258 jobs Relocation support | 207 jobs Travel | 133 jobs Flexible spending account | 129 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 122 jobs

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