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<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> Survey: Privacy Professionals Well Paid, Differ in Regulated and Unregulated Industries

By Zach Warren
October 01, 2015

What does it mean to be a privacy professional today? As it turns out, it means that you're likely at manager or director level and comparatively well paid, and you also interact often with the information security, IT, legal, regulatory compliance and HR departments. However, it also means that your budget isn't where you'd like it to be and your staff may be too small ' especially if you're in government.

The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and Ernst & Young (EY) have released their Annual Privacy Governance Report for 2015, highlighting how departments across a number of organizations handle privacy work. The survey of nearly 800 privacy professionals endeavored to find where the professionals stand in their organization, who they work with on a daily basis, the team's priorities, and the maturity levels or privacy teams across the country, among other figures.

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