Salary for Entry-level / Junior SOC Analyst in United States during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Entry-level / Junior SOC Analyst in United States during 2025 is USD 76,260

✏️ This salary info is based on 6 individual salaries reported during 2025

Submit your salary Download the data

Salary details

The average entry-level / junior SOC Analyst salary lies between USD 68,000 and USD 96,000 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
SOC Analyst
Experience
Entry-level / Junior
Region
United States
Salary year
2025
Sample size
6
Top 10%
$ 100,000
Top 25%
$ 96,000
Median
$ 76,260
Bottom 25%
$ 68,000
Bottom 10%
$ 56,160

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 Entry-level / Junior SOC Analyst roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with entry-level / junior SOC Analyst job listings are SOC, SIEM and Monitoring. 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:

SOC | 24 jobs SIEM | 16 jobs Monitoring | 16 jobs Incident response | 12 jobs Compliance | 12 jobs EDR | 12 jobs Linux | 10 jobs Windows | 10 jobs Strategy | 8 jobs Malware | 8 jobs Splunk | 8 jobs Cloud | 7 jobs Network security | 6 jobs Firewalls | 6 jobs TCP/IP | 6 jobs IPS | 5 jobs Threat intelligence | 5 jobs Vulnerabilities | 5 jobs CISSP | 5 jobs Risk management | 5 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Entry-level / Junior SOC Analyst roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with entry-level / junior SOC Analyst 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 | 18 jobs Health care | 12 jobs Team events | 12 jobs Competitive pay | 7 jobs Medical leave | 7 jobs Insurance | 7 jobs Equity / stock options | 5 jobs Parental leave | 5 jobs Startup environment | 5 jobs 401(k) matching | 4 jobs Salary bonus | 4 jobs Flex hours | 3 jobs Flex vacation | 3 jobs Wellness | 2 jobs Gear | 2 jobs Lunch / meals | 1 jobs Fitness / gym | 1 jobs Home office stipend | 1 jobs Flexible spending account | 1 jobs

Related salaries

SOC Analyst @ $ 76,260 (global) Details
SOC Analyst @ $ 76,260 (global) - Entry-level / Junior Details
SOC Analyst @ $ 76,260 (United States) Details

Want 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 frontpage

About 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.