Privacy Engineer Salary in United States during 2025
💰 The median Privacy Engineer Salary in United States during 2025 is USD 200,000
✏️ This salary info is based on 8 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average Privacy Engineer salary lies between USD 175,800 and USD 225,000 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
- 8
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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 Privacy Engineer roles
The three most common job tag items assiciated with Privacy Engineer job listings are Privacy, Compliance and GDPR. 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 | 11 jobs Compliance | 8 jobs GDPR | 7 jobs Computer Science | 6 jobs Audits | 5 jobs CIPP | 5 jobs Risk management | 4 jobs Monitoring | 4 jobs Cloud | 4 jobs Risk assessment | 3 jobs Analytics | 3 jobs Artificial Intelligence | 3 jobs Machine Learning | 3 jobs AWS | 3 jobs C | 3 jobs Java | 3 jobs CCPA | 3 jobs Encryption | 2 jobs CISA | 2 jobs Python | 2 jobsTop 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Privacy Engineer roles
The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with Privacy Engineer job listings are Equity / stock options, Health care and Career development. 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:
Equity / stock options | 5 jobs Health care | 5 jobs Career development | 5 jobs Flex hours | 3 jobs Parental leave | 2 jobs Flex vacation | 2 jobs Competitive pay | 2 jobs 401(k) matching | 1 jobs Lunch / meals | 1 jobs Wellness | 1 jobs Relocation support | 1 jobs Medical leave | 1 jobs Insurance | 1 jobs Salary bonus | 1 jobs Fertility benefits | 1 jobsWant to contribute?
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