Data Governance GRC Jobs (2026): 136 Open Risk & Compliance Jobs

Data governance went from a back-office chore to a boardroom priority the moment companies realized their data was both their biggest asset and their biggest liability. Data platforms, analytics teams, and any enterprise serious about its information hire for stewardship, quality, lineage, catalog, and privacy work that keeps data usable and defensible. It is also the foundation everything in AI governance gets built on. If you make data trustworthy for a living, the demand is only going one direction.

Compliance Officer paystats as of Q2 2026

BLS put the 2024 median at $78,420. In 2026, market trackers show averages from roughly $99,000 to $120,000, with the top quartile above $160,000. Financial centers and senior governance roles sit at the top of that range.

Sources: BLS, 2024 median

Data Governance GRC jobs: what the market looks like right now

A snapshot built from the 136 Data Governance GRC roles currently on this page.

What these roles pay by level

Median advertised midpoint, by seniority band. Bars are to scale.

Median advertised salary midpoint by seniority level
Level	Median midpoint	Postings
Mid-level	$162k	16
Senior / lead / manager	$191k	30
Director	$220k	7
Executive / C-suite	$218k	5

How these figures were calculated, and sources

Primary source: our own board. Every figure above is the median midpoint of the salary ranges published in the live postings on this page. Nothing is estimated, modelled, or carried over from a previous month. It is recalculated each time the board refreshes.

What is included. Only postings that publish a salary range. Hourly, weekly and monthly rates are annualised (2,080 hours, 52 weeks, 12 months). Ranges below $20,000 a year are excluded as data-entry placeholders. A seniority band is shown only when at least five postings support it.

What this is not. These are advertised ranges, not accepted offers. Advertised ranges tend to run wider than what is actually paid, and roles that do not publish a range are missing from the calculation entirely, which can bias the result upward.

For an independent benchmark, compare against the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics for SOC 13-1041 — Compliance Officers, published annually at bls.gov/oes. BLS reports actual wages across all employers rather than advertised ranges, so its medians normally sit below job-board figures.

Where the work is

Work mode: 27 remote, 20 hybrid, 89 on-site or unstated.
Seniority mix: senior (71), mid (45), director (11), executive (9)
Employers hiring more than one: Coinbase (14), KPMG (10), SEI (9), Anduril Industries (5), N26 (4), Deutsche Bank (4)

Skills these postings ask for

policy and procedure writing
control testing and evidence collection
regulatory change management
SOX and SOC 2 readiness
issue management and remediation tracking

How to get a compliance job — the full career guide for this field: entry routes, transferable backgrounds, certifications and salary by level.

Certifications that come up most

None of these are universally required, but they appear often enough in Data Governance GRC postings to be worth knowing: CCEP, CRCM, CAMS, CIPP/US, AIGP. The certification academy covers what each one actually tests and who it is for.

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