Salary for Senior-level / Expert Data Governance during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Senior-level / Expert Data Governance during 2025 is USD 157,325

✏️ This salary info is based on 128 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average senior-level / expert Data Governance salary lies between USD 114,700 and USD 194,900 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
128
Top 10%
$ 265,080
Top 25%
$ 194,900
Median
$ 157,325
Bottom 25%
$ 114,700
Bottom 10%
$ 79,500

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 | 960 jobs Data management | 687 jobs Data quality | 655 jobs Security | 395 jobs Privacy | 371 jobs Engineering | 336 jobs Computer Science | 290 jobs Architecture | 285 jobs SQL | 269 jobs Finance | 210 jobs Informatica | 186 jobs Agile | 178 jobs Data strategy | 173 jobs Consulting | 154 jobs Excel | 146 jobs Classification | 141 jobs Python | 137 jobs Banking | 135 jobs Azure | 132 jobs Testing | 130 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 | 584 jobs Health care | 401 jobs Flex hours | 260 jobs Competitive pay | 240 jobs Insurance | 223 jobs Salary bonus | 168 jobs Medical leave | 164 jobs Equity / stock options | 162 jobs Flex vacation | 162 jobs Wellness | 155 jobs Parental leave | 137 jobs Team events | 128 jobs Startup environment | 113 jobs 401(k) matching | 80 jobs Transparency | 79 jobs Relocation support | 31 jobs Fitness / gym | 17 jobs Travel | 15 jobs Flexible spending account | 14 jobs Conferences | 13 jobs

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