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 464 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average Cyber Security salary lies between USD 95,500 and USD 182,100 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
- 464
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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 | 2173 jobs Cloud | 1984 jobs CISSP | 1610 jobs Computer Science | 1569 jobs Monitoring | 1487 jobs Incident response | 1483 jobs NIST | 1382 jobs Vulnerabilities | 1367 jobs Risk management | 1257 jobs SIEM | 1181 jobs Clearance | 1157 jobs Firewalls | 1026 jobs Strategy | 976 jobs Risk assessment | 934 jobs CISM | 876 jobs Automation | 861 jobs Linux | 828 jobs Azure | 827 jobs Audits | 821 jobs Governance | 800 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 | 2423 jobs Health care | 1527 jobs Team events | 1184 jobs Flex hours | 1133 jobs Competitive pay | 1006 jobs Insurance | 799 jobs Equity / stock options | 603 jobs Flex vacation | 593 jobs Startup environment | 554 jobs Parental leave | 515 jobs Salary bonus | 508 jobs Medical leave | 506 jobs 401(k) matching | 451 jobs Wellness | 365 jobs Relocation support | 159 jobs Fitness / gym | 137 jobs Conferences | 129 jobs Transparency | 97 jobs Flexible spending account | 90 jobs Gear | 69 jobsRelated salaries
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