Salary for Executive-level / Director Data Scientist during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Executive-level / Director Data Scientist during 2025 is USD 136,710

✏️ This salary info is based on 12 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average executive-level / director Data Scientist salary lies between USD 87,280 and USD 184,100 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
Data Scientist
Experience
Executive-level / Director
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
12
Top 10%
$ 267,050
Top 25%
$ 184,100
Median
$ 136,710
Bottom 25%
$ 87,280
Bottom 10%
$ 30,896

All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.

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Salary trend

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

The three most common job tag items assiciated with executive-level / director Data Scientist job listings are Machine Learning, Python and SQL. 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:

Machine Learning | 16 jobs Python | 15 jobs SQL | 13 jobs Statistics | 13 jobs Engineering | 12 jobs Mathematics | 8 jobs NLP | 7 jobs Research | 7 jobs Computer Science | 7 jobs R | 6 jobs ML models | 6 jobs Data visualization | 6 jobs Deep Learning | 5 jobs Azure | 5 jobs Pipelines | 5 jobs Data analysis | 5 jobs LLMs | 5 jobs Generative AI | 5 jobs PySpark | 4 jobs AWS | 4 jobs

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

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with executive-level / director Data Scientist 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 | 12 jobs Health care | 6 jobs Equity / stock options | 4 jobs Flex hours | 4 jobs Insurance | 4 jobs Salary bonus | 4 jobs Wellness | 3 jobs Conferences | 3 jobs Flex vacation | 2 jobs Startup environment | 2 jobs Competitive pay | 2 jobs Parental leave | 1 jobs Team events | 1 jobs Medical leave | 1 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 1 jobs

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