Salary for Executive-level / Director Director during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Executive-level / Director Director during 2025 is USD 178,939

✏️ This salary info is based on 102 individual salaries reported during 2025

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The average executive-level / director Director salary lies between USD 150,000 and USD 230,000 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
102
Top 10%
$ 287,100
Top 25%
$ 230,000
Median
$ 178,939
Bottom 25%
$ 150,000
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 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 Computer Science. 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 | 1143 jobs Machine Learning | 980 jobs Computer Science | 837 jobs Python | 832 jobs Research | 681 jobs Statistics | 624 jobs SQL | 600 jobs Architecture | 595 jobs Security | 567 jobs R | 494 jobs Data Analytics | 443 jobs Data management | 441 jobs Data governance | 425 jobs Privacy | 413 jobs AWS | 407 jobs Agile | 399 jobs Data quality | 358 jobs Testing | 349 jobs Mathematics | 347 jobs Pipelines | 343 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 | 1518 jobs Health care | 991 jobs Startup environment | 650 jobs Competitive pay | 609 jobs Equity / stock options | 594 jobs Salary bonus | 512 jobs Insurance | 509 jobs Flex hours | 480 jobs Flex vacation | 437 jobs Parental leave | 387 jobs Team events | 381 jobs Medical leave | 358 jobs Wellness | 306 jobs 401(k) matching | 274 jobs Transparency | 172 jobs Conferences | 135 jobs Relocation support | 71 jobs Flexible spending account | 69 jobs Travel | 66 jobs Home office stipend | 48 jobs

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