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 155,013
✏️ This salary info is based on 176 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average senior-level / expert Cyber Security salary lies between USD 124,800 and USD 194,700 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
- 176
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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 | 907 jobs Cloud | 881 jobs CISSP | 759 jobs Computer Science | 653 jobs NIST | 606 jobs Monitoring | 591 jobs Incident response | 587 jobs Vulnerabilities | 550 jobs Clearance | 510 jobs Risk management | 507 jobs SIEM | 485 jobs Firewalls | 423 jobs CISM | 404 jobs Strategy | 403 jobs Risk assessment | 399 jobs Automation | 396 jobs Azure | 388 jobs AWS | 363 jobs Linux | 348 jobs Audits | 343 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 | 964 jobs Health care | 657 jobs Flex hours | 493 jobs Team events | 433 jobs Competitive pay | 397 jobs Insurance | 392 jobs Equity / stock options | 281 jobs Flex vacation | 244 jobs Medical leave | 234 jobs Parental leave | 230 jobs Startup environment | 223 jobs 401(k) matching | 218 jobs Salary bonus | 212 jobs Wellness | 153 jobs Relocation support | 77 jobs Conferences | 47 jobs Fitness / gym | 44 jobs Transparency | 42 jobs Flexible spending account | 38 jobs Gear | 23 jobsRelated salaries
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