Salary for Senior-level / Expert Data Governance during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Senior-level / Expert Data Governance during 2025 is USD 168,344

✏️ This salary info is based on 42 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average senior-level / expert Data Governance salary lies between USD 119,400 and USD 222,000 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
Data Governance
Experience
Senior-level / Expert
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
42
Top 10%
$ 265,505
Top 25%
$ 222,000
Median
$ 168,344
Bottom 25%
$ 119,400
Bottom 10%
$ 109,700

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 | 370 jobs Data management | 267 jobs Data quality | 252 jobs Privacy | 147 jobs Security | 144 jobs Engineering | 129 jobs Computer Science | 117 jobs Architecture | 116 jobs SQL | 99 jobs Finance | 80 jobs Data strategy | 72 jobs Informatica | 71 jobs Agile | 66 jobs Consulting | 64 jobs Classification | 60 jobs Excel | 60 jobs Data analysis | 53 jobs Testing | 52 jobs Azure | 51 jobs AWS | 49 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 | 232 jobs Health care | 154 jobs Flex hours | 113 jobs Competitive pay | 86 jobs Insurance | 85 jobs Medical leave | 72 jobs Flex vacation | 71 jobs Parental leave | 66 jobs Salary bonus | 65 jobs Equity / stock options | 56 jobs Wellness | 54 jobs Team events | 52 jobs Startup environment | 40 jobs 401(k) matching | 33 jobs Transparency | 30 jobs Relocation support | 12 jobs Conferences | 9 jobs Flexible spending account | 8 jobs Fertility benefits | 7 jobs Travel | 5 jobs

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