ISO 27001 salary: $205K median
The median advertised ISO 27001 salary is $205K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $165K to $250K: counted from 364 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $99 an hour or $17,104 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $300K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll ISO 27001 jobs
$205Kmedian advertised salary
$165K – $250Kmiddle half of roles
$213Kaverage advertised salary
364roles counted
ISO 27001 salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $240K, 28% more than senior roles ($188K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $188K | $165K–$218K | 127 |
| Lead and above | $240K | $200K–$280K | 109 |
| No level in the title | $193K | $150K–$247K | 127 |
ISO 27001 salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $220K | 113 |
| 🇺🇸California | $215K | 139 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $212K | 52 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle, WA | $208K | 26 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $208K | 333 |
| 🇺🇸Washington, DC | $168K | 16 |
Skills that pay more for ISO 27001 roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Threat modeling | $247K | +$42K | 53 |
| Zero trust | $236K | +$30K | 41 |
| Go | $229K | +$24K | 63 |
| LLM | $225K | +$20K | 68 |
| Kubernetes | $220K | +$15K | 84 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Lambda | $330K | 8 |
| Anthropic | $318K | 14 |
| Decagon | $300K | 4 |
| Replit | $288K | 3 |
| OpenAI | $263K | 4 |
| Ripple | $262K | 3 |
| LiveKit | $250K | 3 |
| Vanta | $244K | 46 |
| Rubrik | $236K | 5 |
| Zania | $230K | 3 |
| Apex Technology | $225K | 3 |
| Databricks | $212K | 4 |
| Perplexity | $210K | 3 |
| CoreWeave | $208K | 6 |
| Muon Space | $206K | 4 |
| Drata | $205K | 3 |
| General Matter | $194K | 4 |
| Very Good Security | $192K | 9 |
| Abnormal Security | $188K | 4 |
| Twitch | $186K | 3 |
| Samsara | $182K | 4 |
| Okta | $180K | 3 |
| Artemis | $180K | 3 |
| Applied | $175K | 3 |
| Brex | $173K | 3 |
Highest-paying open ISO 27001 roles
All ISO 27001 jobs- Head of DesignVanta · 🇺🇸Remote U.S.$365K - $513KRemoteLead and aboveSOC 2ISO 27001Design systems
- Lead - Security Controls Assurance - SOXAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY | Was…$410K - $510KLead and aboveRustGoPython
- Vice President, Platform OperationsNetskope · 🇺🇸United States$298K - $500KLead and aboveCDNNetwork engineeringData centers
- CISOGlean · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA$424K - $489KLLMZendeskAI agents
- Senior Manager, Detection and ResponseLambda · Bellevue Office$324K - $480KHybridSeniorMachine LearningLLMIncident response
- Staff Security ArchitectLambda · Bellevue Office$314K - $465KHybridLead and aboveGoPythonTerraform
- Client Platform EngineerOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$347K - $445KHybridGoPythonDocker
- Technical Program Manager, Enterprise ReadinessAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$365K - $435KLLMData governanceIAM
- VP, Success & ServicesVanta · 🇺🇸Remote U.S.$318K - $426KRemoteLead and aboveGCPAzureJira
- Security GRC LeadMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$350K - $425KLead and abovePythonSQLLLM
- Security Lead, Product and Infrastructure (InfoSec)River AI Inc. · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$200K - $420KLead and aboveDeep learningIncident responseIAM
- Engineering Manager (Security)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$300K - $405KHybridLLMCI/CDKubernetes
- Senior Software Engineer, Platform SecurityDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorGoPythonTypeScript
- Senior Software Engineer, Application SecurityDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorGCPCI/CDAI agents
- Member of Technical Staff, Product SecurityInferact · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KPyTorchCI/CDKubernetes
- Engineering Manager, Security (Cloud, Infrastructure & Application Security)Replit · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$250K - $387KHybridGoPythonTypeScript
- Chief ArchitectLegion · 🇺🇸Remote, United States$300K - $385KRemoteLead and aboveGoPythonJava
- Chief Information Security OfficerAnduril Industries · 🇺🇸Costa Mesa, California, United States$252K - $382KLead and aboveCI/CDComputer VisionSecurity clearance
- Principal Security Engineer, Enterprise SecurityRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$321K - $366KLead and abovePythonAI agentsGoogle Workspace
- Senior Principal Engineer, Central Ops & SystemsDocker · 🇺🇸United States$219K - $352KRemoteLead and aboveGCPAzureKubernetes
Questions about ISO 27001 pay
- What is the average ISO 27001 salary?
- $213K a year on average and $205K at the median, across 364 open ISO 27001 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 ISO 27001 pay?
- Lambda ($330K), Anthropic ($318K), Decagon ($300K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is an iso 27001 a high-paying job?
- The median ISO 27001 posting advertises $205K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 18% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as an iso 27001?
- A tenth of the postings offer $300K a year or more; the highest open ISO 27001 role advertises up to $513K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the ISO 27001 salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $205K a year is about $99 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $17,104 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $79 to $120 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for ISO 27001 roles?
- Postings that ask for Threat modeling (+$42K, 53 postings), Zero trust (+$30K, 41 postings), Go (+$24K, 63 postings) advertise more than the $205K median of all ISO 27001 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 ISO 27001 roles at companies is $205K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $165K to $250K. Counted from 364 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/iso-27001/
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