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

💰 The median Salary for Executive-level / Director Director in United States during 2025 is USD 190,000

✏️ This salary info is based on 358 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 255,000 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
Executive-level / Director
Region
United States
Salary year
2025
Sample size
358
Top 10%
$ 304,200
Top 25%
$ 255,000
Median
$ 190,000
Bottom 25%
$ 150,000
Bottom 10%
$ 124,200

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 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 | 1501 jobs Machine Learning | 1289 jobs Python | 1104 jobs Computer Science | 1065 jobs Research | 867 jobs Statistics | 806 jobs Architecture | 804 jobs SQL | 792 jobs Security | 750 jobs R | 644 jobs Data Analytics | 577 jobs Data management | 572 jobs Data governance | 556 jobs AWS | 544 jobs Privacy | 539 jobs Agile | 517 jobs Testing | 477 jobs Data quality | 472 jobs Pipelines | 467 jobs Generative AI | 463 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 | 1971 jobs Health care | 1294 jobs Startup environment | 833 jobs Competitive pay | 792 jobs Equity / stock options | 788 jobs Salary bonus | 666 jobs Insurance | 644 jobs Flex hours | 606 jobs Flex vacation | 546 jobs Parental leave | 511 jobs Team events | 497 jobs Medical leave | 479 jobs Wellness | 396 jobs 401(k) matching | 363 jobs Transparency | 230 jobs Conferences | 153 jobs Relocation support | 100 jobs Travel | 80 jobs Flexible spending account | 80 jobs Fitness / gym | 68 jobs

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