{"id":1293,"date":"2011-02-27T14:12:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T13:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2011-02-27T14:12:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T13:12:47","slug":"how-much-money-do-game-developers-earn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/27\/how-much-money-do-game-developers-earn\/","title":{"rendered":"How much money do game developers earn?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another excellent post by Christer – a Direct of tech @ SCEA – on calculating independent, verfiable salaries for people in videogames industry<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n“Unlike salary surveys, where people can claim arbitrary wages (and the submitted salaries are never posted), the H1-B data contains actual wages! In other words, it is a rare opportunity to get some objective data points on industry salaries.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m a huge fan of these unbiased, fact-based analyses. c.f. my posts from a few years ago on predicting MMO subscriber numbers in similar fashion. These DO NOT invalidate other forms of estimation – but they provide an independent figure that “anyone” can re-calculate for themselves, at any time, and check the info \/ update it.<\/p>\n

Christer’s mined some great data here – all the big names are represented. A tiny sampling (go to the original post for tonnes more):<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n
Employer<\/th>\nJob title<\/th>\nWage<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Disney Online<\/td>\nDirector, Technology <\/td>\n$157,500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Electronic Arts<\/td>\nTechnical Director<\/td>\n$150,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Blizzard Entertainment<\/td>\n \tSenior Software Engineer II<\/td>\n$150,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’ve been thinking of updating my old posts on salaries for startups – what can\/should\/would you pay to your first employees? I’m wondering now if I can shore that up with extra data from the VISA programmes; maybe not quite the same volume of data, but should be a substantial amount there. Unlike Christer’s set, it’s likely to be a lot more skewed :( – startups can rarely afford to recruit internationally, as compared to large corporates who do it as a matter of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another excellent post by Christer – a Direct of tech @ SCEA – on calculating independent, verfiable salaries for people in videogames industry: “Unlike salary surveys, where people can claim arbitrary wages (and the submitted salaries are never posted), the H1-B data contains actual wages! In other words, it is a rare opportunity to get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,14,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}