Compliance Specialist Salary in 2025
💰 The median Compliance Specialist Salary in 2025 is USD 106,400
✏️ This salary info is based on 63 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average Compliance Specialist salary lies between USD 84,900 and USD 153,000 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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- Compliance Specialist
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- all levels
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- global/worldwide
- Salary year
- 2025
- Sample size
- 63
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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 Compliance Specialist roles
The three most common job tag items assiciated with Compliance Specialist job listings are Compliance, Audits 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 | 149 jobs Audits | 84 jobs Risk management | 74 jobs Risk assessment | 73 jobs CISSP | 69 jobs ISO 27001 | 66 jobs NIST | 65 jobs Privacy | 63 jobs CISA | 61 jobs CISM | 60 jobs Computer Science | 51 jobs Governance | 50 jobs GDPR | 44 jobs Monitoring | 44 jobs Cloud | 43 jobs SOC 2 | 39 jobs CRISC | 36 jobs SOC | 36 jobs Strategy | 35 jobs HIPAA | 35 jobsTop 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 | 86 jobs Flex hours | 50 jobs Health care | 46 jobs Team events | 41 jobs Competitive pay | 34 jobs Equity / stock options | 32 jobs Insurance | 28 jobs Salary bonus | 26 jobs Startup environment | 25 jobs Parental leave | 24 jobs Flex vacation | 20 jobs Medical leave | 17 jobs 401(k) matching | 11 jobs Transparency | 9 jobs Wellness | 7 jobs Lunch / meals | 4 jobs Fitness / gym | 3 jobs Relocation support | 3 jobs Flexible spending account | 3 jobs Gear | 2 jobsRelated salaries
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