Corporate Governance Jobs: GRC & IT Governance (2026)

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 Advertised ranges tend to run wider than what is actually paid, and roles that do not publish a range are missing from the calculation entirely, which can bias the result upward.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: 30 remote, 3 hybrid, 86 on-site or unstated.
Seniority mix: senior (55), mid (41), director (14), executive (9)
Employers hiring more than one: Stripe (16), Pathward (9), Capco (9), Anthropic (7), Plaid (4), Kraken (3)

Skills these postings ask for

board and committee reporting
policy lifecycle ownership
risk appetite and tolerance setting
three-lines-of-defence operating models
ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST AI RMF fluency

How to get a governance 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 Governance postings to be worth knowing: CGEIT, CRISC, AIGP, CISA. The certification academy covers what each one actually tests and who it is for.

Related governance roles

Governance is the direction-setting half of governance, risk and compliance. These hubs draw from the same shortlists:

AI governance jobs — the fastest-growing governance discipline, under ISO/IEC 42001 and the EU AI Act.
Data governance analyst jobs — ownership, quality and lineage for the data everything else runs on.
Governance risk compliance jobs — where governance decisions become controls and evidence.
Risk management jobs and internal audit jobs — the second and third lines of defence.
GRC manager jobs and GRC analyst jobs — the generalist seats spanning all of it.

Hiring for one of these instead? The GRC and AI governance hiring toolkit has ready-to-edit job description templates, and the career guides map each path.

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