Privacy Engineer Salary in United States during 2025

💰 The median Privacy Engineer Salary in United States during 2025 is USD 180,000

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Salary details

The average Privacy Engineer salary lies between USD 127,350 and USD 211,000 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
Privacy Engineer
Experience
all levels
Region
United States
Salary year
2025
Sample size
24
Top 10%
$ 240,000
Top 25%
$ 211,000
Median
$ 180,000
Bottom 25%
$ 127,350
Bottom 10%
$ 125,500

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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Salary trend

Top 20 Job Tags for Privacy Engineer roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with Privacy Engineer job listings are Privacy, Compliance and Computer Science. 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:

Privacy | 30 jobs Compliance | 21 jobs Computer Science | 16 jobs GDPR | 12 jobs Cloud | 12 jobs Python | 11 jobs Java | 9 jobs CIPP | 9 jobs C | 8 jobs Audits | 7 jobs AWS | 7 jobs CCPA | 7 jobs Risk assessment | 6 jobs Governance | 6 jobs Monitoring | 6 jobs Analytics | 5 jobs Machine Learning | 5 jobs Risk management | 5 jobs Artificial Intelligence | 4 jobs Automation | 4 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Privacy Engineer roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with Privacy Engineer job listings are Career development, Equity / stock options 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 | 22 jobs Equity / stock options | 19 jobs Health care | 17 jobs Salary bonus | 10 jobs Competitive pay | 9 jobs Parental leave | 8 jobs Team events | 8 jobs Flex vacation | 6 jobs Medical leave | 6 jobs Insurance | 6 jobs 401(k) matching | 5 jobs Flex hours | 5 jobs Wellness | 5 jobs Gear | 4 jobs Pet friendly | 4 jobs Fitness / gym | 3 jobs Startup environment | 3 jobs Home office stipend | 3 jobs Lunch / meals | 1 jobs Transparency | 1 jobs

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