Salary for Executive-level / Director Director during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Executive-level / Director Director during 2025 is USD 188,100

✏️ This salary info is based on 376 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average executive-level / director Director salary lies between USD 150,000 and USD 250,000 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
Executive-level / Director
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
376
Top 10%
$ 302,300
Top 25%
$ 250,000
Median
$ 188,100
Bottom 25%
$ 150,000
Bottom 10%
$ 121,000

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 Executive-level / Director Director roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with executive-level / director 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 | 1528 jobs Machine Learning | 1314 jobs Python | 1122 jobs Computer Science | 1079 jobs Research | 879 jobs Architecture | 815 jobs Statistics | 814 jobs SQL | 803 jobs Security | 760 jobs R | 655 jobs Data Analytics | 583 jobs Data management | 579 jobs Data governance | 564 jobs AWS | 551 jobs Privacy | 549 jobs Agile | 522 jobs Testing | 486 jobs Data quality | 480 jobs Pipelines | 474 jobs Finance | 472 jobs

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

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with executive-level / director Director job listings are Career development, Health care and Startup environment. 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 | 1997 jobs Health care | 1307 jobs Startup environment | 842 jobs Competitive pay | 805 jobs Equity / stock options | 797 jobs Salary bonus | 677 jobs Insurance | 648 jobs Flex hours | 614 jobs Flex vacation | 551 jobs Parental leave | 515 jobs Team events | 504 jobs Medical leave | 483 jobs Wellness | 401 jobs 401(k) matching | 365 jobs Transparency | 230 jobs Conferences | 157 jobs Relocation support | 103 jobs Travel | 81 jobs Flexible spending account | 80 jobs Fitness / gym | 69 jobs

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