Salary for Senior-level / Expert Director during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Senior-level / Expert Director during 2025 is USD 234,450

✏️ This salary info is based on 104 individual salaries reported during 2025

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The average senior-level / expert Director salary lies between USD 180,000 and USD 280,000 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
Director
Experience
Senior-level / Expert
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
104
Top 10%
$ 344,500
Top 25%
$ 280,000
Median
$ 234,450
Bottom 25%
$ 180,000
Bottom 10%
$ 160,100

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 Senior-level / Expert Director roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with senior-level / expert Director job listings are Engineering, Machine Learning and Computer Science. 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 | 448 jobs Machine Learning | 412 jobs Computer Science | 315 jobs Python | 309 jobs Architecture | 285 jobs Research | 261 jobs SQL | 234 jobs Security | 225 jobs AWS | 212 jobs R | 188 jobs Pipelines | 188 jobs Statistics | 185 jobs Azure | 175 jobs Data governance | 172 jobs Privacy | 171 jobs Generative AI | 159 jobs Data management | 157 jobs Agile | 148 jobs GCP | 147 jobs Data quality | 143 jobs

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

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with senior-level / expert Director job listings are Career development, Health care and Competitive pay. 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 | 553 jobs Health care | 383 jobs Competitive pay | 256 jobs Equity / stock options | 247 jobs Startup environment | 242 jobs Salary bonus | 221 jobs Flex hours | 201 jobs Medical leave | 192 jobs Flex vacation | 186 jobs Insurance | 173 jobs Team events | 146 jobs Parental leave | 142 jobs 401(k) matching | 139 jobs Wellness | 119 jobs Transparency | 92 jobs Conferences | 55 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 49 jobs Relocation support | 38 jobs Flexible spending account | 35 jobs Travel | 28 jobs

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