Salary for Senior-level / Expert Network Engineer in United States during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Senior-level / Expert Network Engineer in United States during 2025 is USD 138,000

✏️ This salary info is based on 192 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average senior-level / expert Network Engineer salary lies between USD 101,949 and USD 178,683 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
Network Engineer
Experience
Senior-level / Expert
Region
United States
Salary year
2025
Sample size
192
Top 10%
$ 220,000
Top 25%
$ 178,683
Median
$ 138,000
Bottom 25%
$ 101,949
Bottom 10%
$ 84,900

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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Salary trend

Top 20 Job Tags for Senior-level / Expert Network Engineer roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with senior-level / expert Network Engineer job listings are Firewalls, Clearance 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:

Firewalls | 141 jobs Clearance | 131 jobs CISSP | 113 jobs DoD | 106 jobs Cloud | 105 jobs CCNP | 94 jobs VPN | 81 jobs Monitoring | 80 jobs Compliance | 79 jobs Network security | 76 jobs Security Clearance | 69 jobs Automation | 66 jobs DoDD 8570 | 62 jobs TS/SCI | 56 jobs Computer Science | 56 jobs Top Secret | 50 jobs TCP/IP | 45 jobs DNS | 44 jobs Python | 44 jobs Windows | 44 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Senior-level / Expert Network Engineer roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with senior-level / expert Network Engineer job listings are Career development, Health care and Insurance. 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 | 116 jobs Health care | 104 jobs Insurance | 79 jobs Competitive pay | 58 jobs Salary bonus | 42 jobs Startup environment | 40 jobs Equity / stock options | 39 jobs Flex vacation | 39 jobs 401(k) matching | 38 jobs Team events | 37 jobs Parental leave | 34 jobs Flex hours | 33 jobs Medical leave | 33 jobs Wellness | 28 jobs Relocation support | 25 jobs Transparency | 15 jobs Flexible spending account | 5 jobs Travel | 4 jobs Home office stipend | 2 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 2 jobs

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