Salary for Executive-level / Director Head of Information Security during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Executive-level / Director Head of Information Security during 2025 is USD 116,841

✏️ This salary info is based on 10 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average executive-level / director Head of Information Security salary lies between USD 94,736 and USD 230,000 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
Head of Information Security
Experience
Executive-level / Director
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
10
Top 10%
$ 235,000
Top 25%
$ 230,000
Median
$ 116,841
Bottom 25%
$ 94,736
Bottom 10%
$ 69,894

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 Executive-level / Director Head of Information Security roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with executive-level / director Head of Information Security job listings are Compliance, CISSP 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:

Compliance | 34 jobs CISSP | 29 jobs Strategy | 26 jobs CISM | 26 jobs Risk management | 26 jobs ISO 27001 | 25 jobs Governance | 25 jobs Incident response | 22 jobs GDPR | 22 jobs NIST | 19 jobs Security strategy | 19 jobs Cloud | 19 jobs Audits | 18 jobs AWS | 15 jobs SOC 2 | 15 jobs SOC | 15 jobs Risk assessment | 14 jobs Computer Science | 14 jobs Vulnerabilities | 11 jobs Azure | 11 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Executive-level / Director Head of Information Security roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with executive-level / director Head of Information Security job listings are Career development, Health care and Startup environment. 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 | 20 jobs Health care | 10 jobs Startup environment | 10 jobs Team events | 10 jobs Flex hours | 9 jobs Competitive pay | 7 jobs Salary bonus | 7 jobs Equity / stock options | 5 jobs Parental leave | 5 jobs Flex vacation | 4 jobs Fitness / gym | 4 jobs Medical leave | 4 jobs 401(k) matching | 3 jobs Wellness | 2 jobs Travel | 2 jobs Transparency | 2 jobs Conferences | 2 jobs Insurance | 2 jobs Home office stipend | 2 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 2 jobs

Related salaries

Head of Information Security @ $ 153,157 (global) Details
Head of Information Security @ $ 232,500 (United States) Details

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