Associate Salary in United States during 2025

💰 The median Associate Salary in United States during 2025 is USD 121,000

✏️ This salary info is based on 418 individual salaries reported during 2025

Submit your salary Download the data

Salary details

The average Associate salary lies between USD 94,000 and USD 147,000 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
Associate
Experience
all levels
Region
United States
Salary year
2025
Sample size
418
Top 10%
$ 185,000
Top 25%
$ 147,000
Median
$ 121,000
Bottom 25%
$ 94,000
Bottom 10%
$ 73,400

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.

Last updated:

Salary trend

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 | 1112 jobs Cloud | 849 jobs Risk management | 784 jobs CISSP | 674 jobs Governance | 640 jobs Computer Science | 638 jobs Strategy | 628 jobs Monitoring | 621 jobs Privacy | 573 jobs Vulnerabilities | 570 jobs Clearance | 525 jobs Audits | 509 jobs CISA | 490 jobs Incident response | 464 jobs NIST | 463 jobs Risk assessment | 421 jobs Azure | 421 jobs CISM | 409 jobs Python | 387 jobs Automation | 376 jobs

Top 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 | 1278 jobs Health care | 555 jobs Team events | 510 jobs Flex hours | 434 jobs Competitive pay | 425 jobs Salary bonus | 314 jobs Insurance | 300 jobs Equity / stock options | 226 jobs Medical leave | 224 jobs Flex vacation | 206 jobs Wellness | 205 jobs Startup environment | 183 jobs Parental leave | 180 jobs Transparency | 112 jobs 401(k) matching | 106 jobs Relocation support | 99 jobs Home office stipend | 49 jobs Travel | 48 jobs Conferences | 39 jobs Gear | 30 jobs

Related salaries

Associate @ $ 116,600 (global) - Senior-level / Expert Details
Associate @ $ 82,400 (global) - Entry-level / Junior Details
Associate @ $ 129,650 (global) - Mid-level / Intermediate Details
Associate @ $ 120,000 (global) Details
Associate @ $ 120,000 (United States) - Senior-level / Expert Details
Associate @ $ 86,625 (United States) - Entry-level / Junior Details
Associate @ $ 130,000 (United States) - Mid-level / Intermediate Details
Associate @ $ 89,150 (Canada) Details

Want to contribute?

📝 Submit your salary info

Enter your own salary data for the current or past work year. It's quite simple and doesn't take more than a minute to fill out.

Go to salary survey

📢 Share our salary survey

Share our "in-less-than-a-minute survey" with others working in the field of InfoSec / Cybersecurity. The more data we have the better for everyone.

💾 Download the data

All collected information will be updated into a public dataset regularly and provided as a download free for anyone to use.

Go to download page

🚀 Search for jobs & talent

If you're thinking about a career change or want to hire fresh talent quickly check out the jobs page.

Go to frontpage

About this project

We collect salary information anonymously from professionals and employers all over the world and make it publicly available for anyone to use, share and play around with.

Our goal is to have open salary data for everyone. So newbies, experienced pros, hiring managers, recruiters and also startup founders or people wanting to switch careers can make better decisions.