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 155,800
✏️ This salary info is based on 8 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average senior-level / expert Security Operations Manager salary lies between USD 120,000 and USD 210,000 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
- Security Operations Manager
- Experience
- Senior-level / Expert
- Region
- United States
- Salary year
- 2025
- Sample size
- 8
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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 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 Cloud. 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 | 13 jobs Monitoring | 12 jobs Cloud | 12 jobs Azure | 11 jobs Compliance | 11 jobs SOC | 11 jobs SIEM | 9 jobs Threat detection | 8 jobs AWS | 8 jobs Vulnerability management | 7 jobs Firewalls | 7 jobs CISSP | 7 jobs Vulnerabilities | 6 jobs Automation | 6 jobs GCP | 6 jobs EDR | 6 jobs ISO 27001 | 5 jobs GDPR | 5 jobs NIST | 5 jobs Scripting | 5 jobsTop 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 | 10 jobs Career development | 9 jobs Health care | 6 jobs Flex hours | 4 jobs 401(k) matching | 3 jobs Equity / stock options | 3 jobs Flex vacation | 3 jobs Wellness | 3 jobs Insurance | 3 jobs Parental leave | 2 jobs Competitive pay | 2 jobs Medical leave | 2 jobs Salary bonus | 2 jobs Startup environment | 1 jobsRelated salaries
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