Salary for Executive-level / Director Head of Data during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Executive-level / Director Head of Data during 2025 is USD 200,000

✏️ This salary info is based on 32 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average executive-level / director Head of Data salary lies between USD 153,164 and USD 284,000 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
Head of Data
Experience
Executive-level / Director
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
32
Top 10%
$ 350,000
Top 25%
$ 284,000
Median
$ 200,000
Bottom 25%
$ 153,164
Bottom 10%
$ 101,265

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 Head of Data roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with executive-level / director Head of Data job listings are Engineering, Architecture and Data governance. 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 | 49 jobs Architecture | 38 jobs Data governance | 37 jobs Security | 35 jobs Privacy | 31 jobs Machine Learning | 29 jobs Data quality | 28 jobs Python | 26 jobs Data management | 25 jobs SQL | 24 jobs Computer Science | 24 jobs ETL | 19 jobs Data Analytics | 19 jobs Data strategy | 19 jobs Pipelines | 19 jobs Finance | 17 jobs Agile | 17 jobs AWS | 16 jobs Research | 16 jobs Data pipelines | 15 jobs

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

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with executive-level / director Head of Data job listings are Career development, Health care and Team events. 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 | 58 jobs Health care | 33 jobs Team events | 30 jobs Competitive pay | 29 jobs Startup environment | 27 jobs Flex hours | 22 jobs Salary bonus | 20 jobs Equity / stock options | 17 jobs Insurance | 14 jobs Parental leave | 10 jobs Medical leave | 10 jobs Transparency | 9 jobs Flex vacation | 8 jobs Wellness | 7 jobs Gear | 6 jobs Conferences | 6 jobs Home office stipend | 5 jobs 401(k) matching | 3 jobs Lunch / meals | 3 jobs Travel | 3 jobs

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