Penetration Tester Salary in United States during 2025
💰 The median Penetration Tester Salary in United States during 2025 is USD 132,500
✏️ This salary info is based on 10 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average Penetration Tester salary lies between USD 86,000 and USD 138,000 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
- Penetration Tester
- Experience
- all levels
- Region
- United States
- Salary year
- 2025
- Sample size
- 10
- Top 10%
-
- Top 25%
-
- Median
-
- Bottom 25%
-
- Bottom 10%
-
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 Penetration Tester roles
The three most common job tag items assiciated with Penetration Tester job listings are Pentesting, Vulnerabilities and OSCP. 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:
Pentesting | 34 jobs Vulnerabilities | 31 jobs OSCP | 22 jobs Metasploit | 16 jobs Security assessment | 15 jobs Python | 15 jobs Burp Suite | 14 jobs Cloud | 14 jobs Nmap | 13 jobs Kali | 13 jobs Red team | 13 jobs CEH | 12 jobs Linux | 11 jobs Clearance | 11 jobs Nessus | 11 jobs OWASP | 11 jobs CISSP | 10 jobs OSCE | 10 jobs GPEN | 10 jobs GIAC | 9 jobsTop 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Penetration Tester roles
The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with Penetration Tester 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 | 15 jobs Health care | 6 jobs Team events | 6 jobs Flex hours | 5 jobs Startup environment | 5 jobs Flex vacation | 4 jobs Competitive pay | 4 jobs Medical leave | 4 jobs Insurance | 4 jobs Equity / stock options | 3 jobs 401(k) matching | 2 jobs Wellness | 2 jobs Conferences | 2 jobs Salary bonus | 2 jobs Parental leave | 1 jobs Flexible spending account | 1 jobsWant 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 frontpageAbout 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.