Associate Salary in 2025
💰 The median Associate Salary in 2025 is USD 120,900
✏️ This salary info is based on 362 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average Associate salary lies between USD 93,750 and USD 150,000 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.
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- Associate
- Experience
- all levels
- Region
- global/worldwide
- Salary year
- 2025
- Sample size
- 362
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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 Associate roles
The three most common job tag items assiciated with Associate job listings are Compliance, Cloud and Risk management. 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:
Compliance | 895 jobs Cloud | 684 jobs Risk management | 621 jobs CISSP | 550 jobs Strategy | 530 jobs Governance | 525 jobs Computer Science | 512 jobs Monitoring | 495 jobs Privacy | 474 jobs Vulnerabilities | 446 jobs Clearance | 405 jobs Audits | 402 jobs CISA | 391 jobs Incident response | 369 jobs NIST | 368 jobs Risk assessment | 345 jobs Azure | 338 jobs CISM | 332 jobs Agile | 304 jobs Python | 295 jobsTop 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Associate roles
The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with Associate job listings are Career development, Health care and Team events. 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 | 1029 jobs Health care | 458 jobs Team events | 422 jobs Flex hours | 361 jobs Competitive pay | 344 jobs Salary bonus | 266 jobs Insurance | 241 jobs Equity / stock options | 192 jobs Wellness | 176 jobs Flex vacation | 175 jobs Medical leave | 169 jobs Startup environment | 151 jobs Parental leave | 138 jobs Transparency | 103 jobs 401(k) matching | 89 jobs Relocation support | 83 jobs Home office stipend | 38 jobs Travel | 35 jobs Conferences | 32 jobs Gear | 24 jobsRelated salaries
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