Director Salary in United States during 2025

💰 The median Director Salary in United States during 2025 is USD 196,500

✏️ This salary info is based on 446 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average Director salary lies between USD 160,000 and USD 261,800 in the United States. 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
United States
Salary year
2025
Sample size
446
Top 10%
$ 310,500
Top 25%
$ 261,800
Median
$ 196,500
Bottom 25%
$ 160,000
Bottom 10%
$ 125,000

Region represents the primary country of residence of an employee during the year (or residence for tax purposes). 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 | 2269 jobs Machine Learning | 2007 jobs Python | 1794 jobs Computer Science | 1703 jobs Research | 1449 jobs Statistics | 1338 jobs SQL | 1301 jobs Architecture | 1253 jobs Security | 1150 jobs R | 1147 jobs Data management | 1020 jobs AWS | 950 jobs Data governance | 855 jobs Privacy | 852 jobs Data Analytics | 841 jobs Agile | 807 jobs Pipelines | 796 jobs Data quality | 780 jobs Testing | 779 jobs Mathematics | 741 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 | 3083 jobs Health care | 2047 jobs Equity / stock options | 1233 jobs Startup environment | 1220 jobs Competitive pay | 1203 jobs Salary bonus | 1062 jobs Flex hours | 1016 jobs Insurance | 980 jobs Flex vacation | 886 jobs Team events | 854 jobs Medical leave | 815 jobs Parental leave | 800 jobs 401(k) matching | 621 jobs Wellness | 603 jobs Transparency | 376 jobs Conferences | 253 jobs Relocation support | 202 jobs Travel | 132 jobs Flexible spending account | 128 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 119 jobs

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