2024-2025 Infosec Staff Compensation and Career Benchmark Survey

Your input is beneficial to you and the security community!

The results enable security leaders and their teams to make data-driven decisions around compensation levels and career development plans.

In this year’s survey you’ll find new features including a streamlined survey experience along with refined infosec role categories that better reflect the market!

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The resulting data analysis and report will include:

Compensation breakdown by level and functional area

Compare your compensation by role and responsibilities with peers.

Background and experience benchmarks

Cross reference experience, education level and industry certification with peers.

Job satisfaction drivers and career evolution

Weight leadership visibility benchmarks along with upward mobility.

"I’m thrilled that we’re expanding our compensation survey to infosec staff. With this data, we’ll support CISOs with better data for salary discussions, provide insights for infosec team org design and help practitioners plan their careers."

- Phil Gardner, Founder & CEO of IANS

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About IANS Research

For the security practitioner caught between rapidly evolving threats and demanding executives, IANS Research is a clear-headed resource for making decisions and articulating risk. We provide experience-based security insights for chief information security officers and their teams. The core of our value comes from the IANS Faculty, a network of seasoned practitioners. We support client decisions and executive communications with Ask-an-Expert inquiries, our peer community, deployment-focused reports, tools and templates, and consulting.

About Artico Search

Artico Search’s team of executive recruiters focuses on a “grow and protect” model, recruiting senior go-to-market and security executives in growth venture, private equity and public companies. Artico’s dedicated security practice delivers CISOs and other senior level information security professionals for a diverse set of clients.