Salary for Senior-level / Expert Security Operations Manager in United States during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Senior-level / Expert Security Operations Manager in United States during 2025 is USD 178,300

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Salary details

The average senior-level / expert Security Operations Manager salary lies between USD 126,100 and USD 227,950 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
Security Operations Manager
Experience
Senior-level / Expert
Region
United States
Salary year
2025
Sample size
6
Top 10%
$ 234,300
Top 25%
$ 227,950
Median
$ 178,300
Bottom 25%
$ 126,100
Bottom 10%
$ 96,900

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 Security Operations Manager roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with senior-level / expert Security Operations Manager job listings are Incident response, Monitoring and Azure. 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:

Incident response | 11 jobs Monitoring | 10 jobs Azure | 9 jobs Compliance | 9 jobs Cloud | 9 jobs SOC | 9 jobs SIEM | 7 jobs Threat detection | 6 jobs Vulnerability management | 6 jobs Vulnerabilities | 6 jobs Firewalls | 6 jobs AWS | 6 jobs CISSP | 6 jobs NIST | 5 jobs Threat intelligence | 4 jobs Automation | 4 jobs ISO 27001 | 4 jobs GDPR | 4 jobs GCP | 4 jobs EDR | 4 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Senior-level / Expert Security Operations Manager roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with senior-level / expert Security Operations Manager job listings are Team events, Career development and Health care. 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:

Team events | 8 jobs Career development | 6 jobs Health care | 4 jobs Flex hours | 3 jobs 401(k) matching | 2 jobs Equity / stock options | 2 jobs Wellness | 2 jobs Competitive pay | 2 jobs Parental leave | 1 jobs Flex vacation | 1 jobs Startup environment | 1 jobs Medical leave | 1 jobs Insurance | 1 jobs Salary bonus | 1 jobs

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