Salary for Senior-level / Expert Data Governance during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Senior-level / Expert Data Governance during 2025 is USD 161,200

✏️ This salary info is based on 80 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average senior-level / expert Data Governance salary lies between USD 121,000 and USD 203,600 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 Governance
Experience
Senior-level / Expert
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
80
Top 10%
$ 265,080
Top 25%
$ 203,600
Median
$ 161,200
Bottom 25%
$ 121,000
Bottom 10%
$ 107,657

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 Senior-level / Expert Data Governance roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with senior-level / expert Data Governance job listings are Data governance, Data management and Data quality. 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:

Data governance | 575 jobs Data management | 424 jobs Data quality | 394 jobs Security | 237 jobs Privacy | 229 jobs Engineering | 186 jobs Architecture | 182 jobs Computer Science | 178 jobs SQL | 160 jobs Informatica | 117 jobs Finance | 115 jobs Data strategy | 110 jobs Agile | 95 jobs Consulting | 93 jobs Excel | 91 jobs Classification | 87 jobs Azure | 79 jobs Python | 78 jobs KPIs | 78 jobs Data Analytics | 76 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Senior-level / Expert Data Governance roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with senior-level / expert Data Governance job listings are Career development, Health care and Flex hours. 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 | 353 jobs Health care | 251 jobs Flex hours | 156 jobs Competitive pay | 141 jobs Insurance | 141 jobs Flex vacation | 110 jobs Medical leave | 106 jobs Salary bonus | 106 jobs Parental leave | 99 jobs Equity / stock options | 96 jobs Wellness | 90 jobs Team events | 81 jobs Startup environment | 63 jobs 401(k) matching | 53 jobs Transparency | 42 jobs Relocation support | 21 jobs Flexible spending account | 11 jobs Conferences | 9 jobs Travel | 8 jobs Fitness / gym | 8 jobs

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