Compliance Specialist Salary in 2025

💰 The median Compliance Specialist Salary in 2025 is USD 107,604

✏️ This salary info is based on 47 individual salaries reported during 2025

Submit your salary Download the data

Salary details

The average Compliance Specialist salary lies between USD 82,400 and USD 145,700 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
Compliance Specialist
Experience
all levels
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
47
Top 10%
$ 178,100
Top 25%
$ 145,700
Median
$ 107,604
Bottom 25%
$ 82,400
Bottom 10%
$ 63,700

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 Compliance Specialist roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with Compliance Specialist job listings are Compliance, Audits and Risk assessment. 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 | 121 jobs Audits | 73 jobs Risk assessment | 60 jobs Risk management | 58 jobs ISO 27001 | 56 jobs CISSP | 56 jobs Privacy | 51 jobs NIST | 50 jobs CISA | 50 jobs CISM | 49 jobs Computer Science | 41 jobs GDPR | 39 jobs Governance | 38 jobs Cloud | 37 jobs Monitoring | 36 jobs SOC 2 | 34 jobs SOC | 33 jobs CRISC | 32 jobs Strategy | 28 jobs HIPAA | 27 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Compliance Specialist roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with Compliance Specialist job listings are Career development, Flex hours and Health care. 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 | 70 jobs Flex hours | 42 jobs Health care | 38 jobs Team events | 31 jobs Competitive pay | 28 jobs Equity / stock options | 26 jobs Parental leave | 22 jobs Salary bonus | 22 jobs Startup environment | 20 jobs Insurance | 19 jobs Flex vacation | 17 jobs Medical leave | 15 jobs 401(k) matching | 8 jobs Transparency | 8 jobs Wellness | 7 jobs Lunch / meals | 3 jobs Fitness / gym | 3 jobs Relocation support | 3 jobs Gear | 2 jobs Signing bonus | 2 jobs

Related salaries

Compliance Specialist @ $ 140,000 (global) - Senior-level / Expert Details
Compliance Specialist @ $ 99,900 (global) - Mid-level / Intermediate Details
Compliance Specialist @ $ 147,500 (United States) - Senior-level / Expert Details
Compliance Specialist @ $ 107,002 (United States) Details
Compliance Specialist @ $ 99,900 (United States) - Mid-level / Intermediate 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.