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 160,630
✏️ This salary info is based on 124 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average senior-level / expert Cyber Security salary lies between USD 114,700 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
- 124
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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 | 715 jobs Cloud | 707 jobs CISSP | 622 jobs Computer Science | 524 jobs NIST | 486 jobs Incident response | 475 jobs Monitoring | 467 jobs Vulnerabilities | 460 jobs Risk management | 413 jobs Clearance | 411 jobs SIEM | 384 jobs Firewalls | 348 jobs CISM | 330 jobs Strategy | 328 jobs Risk assessment | 322 jobs Automation | 319 jobs Azure | 312 jobs Network security | 284 jobs Audits | 277 jobs AWS | 277 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 | 771 jobs Health care | 522 jobs Flex hours | 399 jobs Team events | 347 jobs Insurance | 313 jobs Competitive pay | 307 jobs Equity / stock options | 236 jobs Flex vacation | 198 jobs Medical leave | 186 jobs 401(k) matching | 173 jobs Startup environment | 173 jobs Parental leave | 171 jobs Salary bonus | 170 jobs Wellness | 117 jobs Relocation support | 60 jobs Conferences | 37 jobs Flexible spending account | 35 jobs Fitness / gym | 33 jobs Transparency | 28 jobs Gear | 23 jobsRelated salaries
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