Cyber Security Salary in United States during 2025
💰 The median Cyber Security Salary in United States during 2025 is USD 140,000
✏️ This salary info is based on 414 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average Cyber Security salary lies between USD 95,600 and USD 185,000 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
- Cyber Security
- Experience
- all levels
- Region
- United States
- Salary year
- 2025
- Sample size
- 414
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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.
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Top 20 Job Tags for Cyber Security roles
The three most common job tag items assiciated with Cyber Security job listings are Compliance, Cloud 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:
Compliance | 1924 jobs Cloud | 1766 jobs CISSP | 1459 jobs Computer Science | 1431 jobs Monitoring | 1349 jobs Incident response | 1315 jobs NIST | 1241 jobs Vulnerabilities | 1222 jobs Risk management | 1117 jobs SIEM | 1078 jobs Clearance | 1021 jobs Firewalls | 950 jobs Strategy | 874 jobs Risk assessment | 831 jobs CISM | 785 jobs Automation | 768 jobs Linux | 761 jobs Azure | 744 jobs Audits | 740 jobs Governance | 710 jobsTop 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Cyber Security roles
The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with Cyber Security 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 | 2178 jobs Health care | 1375 jobs Team events | 1078 jobs Flex hours | 1029 jobs Competitive pay | 899 jobs Insurance | 709 jobs Equity / stock options | 555 jobs Flex vacation | 536 jobs Startup environment | 493 jobs Parental leave | 469 jobs Medical leave | 454 jobs Salary bonus | 451 jobs 401(k) matching | 408 jobs Wellness | 336 jobs Relocation support | 150 jobs Fitness / gym | 128 jobs Conferences | 116 jobs Transparency | 83 jobs Flexible spending account | 80 jobs Gear | 63 jobsRelated salaries
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