Salary for Senior-level / Expert Director in United States during 2025

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

✏️ This salary info is based on 82 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average senior-level / expert Director salary lies between USD 185,500 and USD 280,000 in the United States. 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
United States
Salary year
2025
Sample size
82
Top 10%
$ 344,500
Top 25%
$ 280,000
Median
$ 234,450
Bottom 25%
$ 185,500
Bottom 10%
$ 161,700

Region represents the primary country of residence of an employee during the year (or residence for tax purposes). 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 | 446 jobs Machine Learning | 410 jobs Computer Science | 313 jobs Python | 305 jobs Architecture | 285 jobs Research | 258 jobs SQL | 230 jobs Security | 224 jobs AWS | 212 jobs Pipelines | 188 jobs R | 186 jobs Statistics | 182 jobs Azure | 175 jobs Data governance | 172 jobs Privacy | 169 jobs Generative AI | 159 jobs Data management | 155 jobs GCP | 147 jobs Agile | 146 jobs Data quality | 142 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 | 552 jobs Health care | 379 jobs Competitive pay | 253 jobs Equity / stock options | 244 jobs Startup environment | 238 jobs Salary bonus | 218 jobs Flex hours | 200 jobs Medical leave | 191 jobs Flex vacation | 185 jobs Insurance | 172 jobs Team events | 145 jobs Parental leave | 141 jobs 401(k) matching | 139 jobs Wellness | 118 jobs Transparency | 92 jobs Conferences | 55 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 49 jobs Relocation support | 37 jobs Flexible spending account | 34 jobs Travel | 28 jobs

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