GDPR salary: $210K median
The median advertised GDPR salary is $210K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $165K to $250K: counted from 190 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $101 an hour or $17,500 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $300K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll GDPR jobs
$210Kmedian advertised salary
$165K – $250Kmiddle half of roles
$215Kaverage advertised salary
190roles counted
GDPR salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $245K, 15% more than senior roles ($214K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $214K | $162K–$246K | 59 |
| Lead and above | $245K | $209K–$280K | 60 |
| No level in the title | $184K | $148K–$218K | 70 |
GDPR salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $240K | 62 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $232K | 35 |
| 🇺🇸California | $232K | 69 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $214K | 170 |
Skills that pay more for GDPR roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law degree | $239K | +$29K | 29 |
| Bar admission | $228K | +$18K | 30 |
| CIPP | $218K | +$8K | 23 |
| Kubernetes | $218K | +$8K | 19 |
| HIPAA | $218K | +$8K | 50 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $410K | 4 |
| Decagon | $300K | 6 |
| Tools For Humanity | $300K | 3 |
| Scale AI | $298K | 3 |
| Metropolis | $250K | 3 |
| Databricks | $248K | 4 |
| Fivetran | $246K | 5 |
| Perplexity | $245K | 5 |
| ConvertKit | $239K | 5 |
| Instacart | $218K | 3 |
| BitGo | $218K | 3 |
| Synthesia | $216K | 4 |
| Life360 | $206K | 4 |
| Okta | $200K | 3 |
| ZoomInfo | $196K | 3 |
| Northbeam | $188K | 6 |
| Whoop | $172K | 4 |
| Twitch | $166K | 6 |
| Ketch | $162K | 3 |
| xAI | $149K | 4 |
| Crusoe | $105K | 5 |
Highest-paying open GDPR roles
All GDPR jobs- Principal Engineer, PrivacyAnthropic · 🇺🇸Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | S…$485K - $625KRemoteLead and aboveGoPythonMachine Learning
- Staff+ Software Engineer, PrivacyAnthropic · 🇺🇸Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | S…$405K - $485KRemoteLead and aboveGoPythonMachine Learning
- Senior Software Engineer, Platform SecurityDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorGoPythonTypeScript
- Senior Software Engineer, Application SecurityDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorGCPCI/CDAI agents
- VP, SecurityEngine · 🇺🇸Remote - US$298K - $400KRemoteLead and aboveLLMAWSApplication security
- Senior Engineering Manager, Ads Data PlatformRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$345K - $399KSeniorPerformance managementGDPRCCPA
- General CounselFirecrawl · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$310K - $392KHybridGoLLMSOC 2
- Head of LegalInterface Ai · 🇺🇸San Francisco$307K - $383KLead and abovePrompt engineeringLaw degreeGDPR
- Senior Counsel, Product & DataChainalysis · 🇺🇸New York$230K - $380KRemoteSeniorGoMachine LearningLaw degree
- Associate General Counsel, Ads ProductReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$266K - $372KRemoteMachine LearningGDPRData privacy
- Sr. Lead Counsel, PrivacyPinterest · 🇺🇸Remote, US$178K - $367KRemoteLead and aboveGDPRData privacyCCPA
- Privacy Engineering LeadSuno · 🇺🇸NYC$277K - $364KLead and aboveGenerative AILLM evaluationData governance
- Senior Staff Frontier Agents EngineerScale AI · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA; New York, NY$288K - $360KLead and abovePythonDockerTerraform
- Senior Engineering Manager, Device SoftwareHinge Health · 🇺🇸San Francisco-HQ$240K - $360KHybridSeniorPythonTypeScriptReact
- Head of Product DesignTools For Humanity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$306K - $360KLead and aboveAgileHTMLCryptography
- Legal Director, PrivacyPeloton · 🇺🇸New York, New York$277K - $353KLead and aboveCIPPData governanceLaw degree
- Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering, Auth0Okta · 🇺🇸Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New Yo…$252K - $347KSeniorGCPAzureMachine Learning
- Frontier Agent Engineering Manager, EnterpriseScale AI · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$265K - $331KPythonDockerTerraform
- Senior AI Governance CounselAdyen · 🇺🇸New York$250K - $325KSeniorLLMAICIPP
- Staff Software Engineer, DatabasesHarvey · 🇺🇸San Francisco$191K - $325KHybridLead and aboveGoPythonSQL
Questions about GDPR pay
- What is the average GDPR salary?
- $215K a year on average and $210K at the median, across 190 open GDPR postings at companies that state pay (November 2026). The median is the better guide: a few very high offers pull the average up.
- What is the typical range?
- The middle half of the postings offer $165K to $250K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest GDPR pay?
- Anthropic ($410K), Tools For Humanity ($300K), Decagon ($300K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a gdpr a high-paying job?
- The median GDPR posting advertises $210K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 21% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a gdpr?
- A tenth of the postings offer $300K a year or more; the highest open GDPR role advertises up to $625K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the GDPR salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $210K a year is about $101 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $17,500 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $79 to $120 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for GDPR roles?
- Postings that ask for Law degree (+$29K, 29 postings), Bar admission (+$18K, 30 postings), CIPP (+$8K, 23 postings) advertise more than the $210K median of all GDPR postings with pay.
- Where do these figures come from?
- From the pay ranges employers print in their own job postings, read from their careers pages every hour. The midpoint of each range is counted. These are advertised ranges for open roles, mostly in the United States and in US dollars, not what people are actually paid.
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The median advertised salary for GDPR roles at companies is $210K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $165K to $250K. Counted from 190 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/gdpr/
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