Salary for Executive-level / Director Data Management in United States during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Executive-level / Director Data Management in United States during 2025 is USD 159,466

✏️ This salary info is based on 26 individual salaries reported during 2025

Submit your salary Download the data

Salary details

The average executive-level / director Data Management salary lies between USD 134,000 and USD 183,500 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
Data Management
Experience
Executive-level / Director
Region
United States
Salary year
2025
Sample size
26
Top 10%
$ 258,100
Top 25%
$ 183,500
Median
$ 159,466
Bottom 25%
$ 134,000
Bottom 10%
$ 100,000

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.

Last updated:

Top 20 Job Tags for Executive-level / Director Data Management roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with executive-level / director Data Management job listings are Data management, Data governance and Data quality. 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:

Data management | 287 jobs Data governance | 154 jobs Data quality | 152 jobs Architecture | 95 jobs Computer Science | 92 jobs Engineering | 90 jobs Research | 78 jobs SQL | 75 jobs Finance | 73 jobs Security | 71 jobs Data strategy | 68 jobs Excel | 55 jobs Privacy | 52 jobs Banking | 51 jobs Data Analytics | 44 jobs Python | 43 jobs Pharma | 43 jobs Agile | 41 jobs Statistics | 40 jobs Power BI | 39 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Executive-level / Director Data Management roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with executive-level / director Data Management job listings are Career development, Health care and Competitive pay. 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 | 165 jobs Health care | 106 jobs Competitive pay | 77 jobs Flex hours | 65 jobs Startup environment | 59 jobs Team events | 53 jobs Insurance | 51 jobs Equity / stock options | 47 jobs Salary bonus | 39 jobs Parental leave | 36 jobs Wellness | 35 jobs Medical leave | 35 jobs 401(k) matching | 32 jobs Flex vacation | 31 jobs Transparency | 28 jobs Travel | 11 jobs Flexible spending account | 9 jobs Conferences | 5 jobs Relocation support | 5 jobs Lunch / meals | 4 jobs

Related salaries

Data Management @ $ 76,800 (global) - Entry-level / Junior Details
Data Management @ $ 80,450 (global) - Mid-level / Intermediate Details
Data Management @ $ 110,683 (global) Details
Data Management @ $ 159,466 (global) - Executive-level / Director Details
Data Management @ $ 110,550 (global) - Senior-level / Expert Details
Data Management @ $ 80,450 (United States) - Mid-level / Intermediate Details
Data Management @ $ 142,918 (United States) - Senior-level / Expert Details
Data Management @ $ 138,196 (United States) Details
Data Management @ $ 40,515 (Portugal) - Senior-level / Expert Details
Data Management @ $ 40,515 (Portugal) Details
Data Management @ $ 82,268 (Australia) Details
Data Management @ $ 82,268 (Australia) - Entry-level / Junior Details

Want to contribute?

📝 Submit your salary info

Enter your own salary data for the current or past work year. It's quite simple and doesn't take more than a minute to fill out.

Go to salary survey

📢 Share our salary survey

Share our "in-less-than-a-minute survey" with others working in the field of AI, ML, Data Science. The more data we have the better for everyone.

💾 Download the data

All collected information will be updated into a public dataset regularly and provided as a download free for anyone to use.

Go to download page

🚀 Search for jobs & talent

If you're thinking about a career change or want to hire fresh talent quickly check out the jobs page.

Go to frontpage

About this project

We collect salary information anonymously from professionals and employers all over the world and make it publicly available for anyone to use, share and play around with.

Our goal is to have open salary data for everyone. So newbies, experienced pros, hiring managers, recruiters and also startup founders or people wanting to switch careers can make better decisions.