Consultant Salary in United States during 2025

💰 The median Consultant Salary in United States during 2025 is USD 182,000

✏️ This salary info is based on 26 individual salaries reported during 2025

Submit your salary Download the data

Salary details

The average Consultant salary lies between USD 130,000 and USD 198,000 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
Consultant
Experience
all levels
Region
United States
Salary year
2025
Sample size
26
Top 10%
$ 273,000
Top 25%
$ 198,000
Median
$ 182,000
Bottom 25%
$ 130,000
Bottom 10%
$ 101,600

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 Consultant roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with Consultant job listings are Cloud, Compliance and CISSP. 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:

Cloud | 182 jobs Compliance | 128 jobs CISSP | 107 jobs Risk management | 91 jobs Computer Science | 88 jobs Incident response | 76 jobs NIST | 75 jobs C | 75 jobs Governance | 75 jobs CISM | 74 jobs Strategy | 73 jobs Risk assessment | 71 jobs ISO 27001 | 71 jobs Audits | 68 jobs Azure | 67 jobs Vulnerabilities | 63 jobs Monitoring | 61 jobs AWS | 60 jobs CISA | 55 jobs Privacy | 54 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Consultant roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with Consultant 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 | 178 jobs Flex hours | 78 jobs Health care | 78 jobs Team events | 72 jobs Medical leave | 65 jobs Competitive pay | 54 jobs Salary bonus | 49 jobs Equity / stock options | 41 jobs Startup environment | 40 jobs Flex vacation | 33 jobs Insurance | 30 jobs Parental leave | 29 jobs Conferences | 23 jobs Wellness | 12 jobs Transparency | 12 jobs 401(k) matching | 10 jobs Flexible spending account | 9 jobs Travel | 8 jobs Home office stipend | 4 jobs Gear | 3 jobs

Related salaries

Consultant @ $ 137,500 (global) Details
Consultant @ $ 168,450 (global) - Senior-level / Expert Details
Consultant @ $ 182,000 (United States) - Senior-level / Expert 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.