Salary for Senior-level / Expert Cyber Security in United States during 2025
💰 The median Salary for Senior-level / Expert Cyber Security in United States during 2025 is USD 150,350
✏️ This salary info is based on 206 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average senior-level / expert Cyber Security salary lies between USD 121,300 and USD 190,000 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
- Cyber Security
- Experience
- Senior-level / Expert
- Region
- United States
- Salary year
- 2025
- Sample size
- 206
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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 Senior-level / Expert Cyber Security roles
The three most common job tag items assiciated with senior-level / expert Cyber Security job listings are Compliance, Cloud and CISSP. 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 | 1043 jobs Cloud | 995 jobs CISSP | 841 jobs Computer Science | 729 jobs NIST | 683 jobs Incident response | 672 jobs Monitoring | 668 jobs Vulnerabilities | 621 jobs Risk management | 588 jobs Clearance | 580 jobs SIEM | 540 jobs Risk assessment | 464 jobs Firewalls | 464 jobs CISM | 457 jobs Strategy | 455 jobs Automation | 449 jobs Azure | 434 jobs AWS | 402 jobs Audits | 392 jobs Linux | 382 jobsTop 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Senior-level / Expert Cyber Security roles
The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with senior-level / expert Cyber Security job listings are Career development, Health care and Flex hours. 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 | 1102 jobs Health care | 746 jobs Flex hours | 552 jobs Team events | 490 jobs Competitive pay | 452 jobs Insurance | 449 jobs Equity / stock options | 309 jobs Flex vacation | 275 jobs Medical leave | 268 jobs Parental leave | 259 jobs Startup environment | 257 jobs Salary bonus | 248 jobs 401(k) matching | 247 jobs Wellness | 166 jobs Relocation support | 82 jobs Conferences | 55 jobs Transparency | 49 jobs Fitness / gym | 47 jobs Flexible spending account | 46 jobs Gear | 26 jobsRelated salaries
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