Salary for Executive-level / Director Ciso during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Executive-level / Director Ciso during 2025 is USD 256,052

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The average executive-level / director CISO salary lies between USD 220,000 and USD 282,900 globally. 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
CISO
Experience
Executive-level / Director
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
10
Top 10%
$ 300,000
Top 25%
$ 282,900
Median
$ 256,052
Bottom 25%
$ 220,000
Bottom 10%
$ 152,700

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 Executive-level / Director CISO roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with executive-level / director CISO job listings are CISO, Compliance and Strategy. 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:

CISO | 36 jobs Compliance | 29 jobs Strategy | 24 jobs Risk management | 23 jobs CISSP | 19 jobs Incident response | 18 jobs Risk assessment | 18 jobs Cloud | 18 jobs ISO 27001 | 17 jobs Governance | 17 jobs CISM | 16 jobs GDPR | 15 jobs NIST | 15 jobs Audits | 14 jobs Security strategy | 14 jobs Privacy | 14 jobs Computer Science | 14 jobs HIPAA | 12 jobs Network security | 11 jobs CISA | 11 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Executive-level / Director CISO roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with executive-level / director CISO job listings are Career development, Startup environment 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 | 26 jobs Startup environment | 13 jobs Health care | 11 jobs Team events | 8 jobs Medical leave | 8 jobs Equity / stock options | 7 jobs 401(k) matching | 6 jobs Parental leave | 6 jobs Flex hours | 6 jobs Wellness | 6 jobs Competitive pay | 6 jobs Flex vacation | 5 jobs Salary bonus | 5 jobs Insurance | 4 jobs Home office stipend | 4 jobs Fertility benefits | 4 jobs Gear | 3 jobs Fitness / gym | 3 jobs Transparency | 3 jobs Flexible spending account | 3 jobs

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