US Game Devs Make $79,000 Average

By Jorge Ba-oh 30.04.2009 6

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A recent survey into the earnings of game developers and producers has shown an average income of US $79,000.

According to Gamasutra, a survey in Game Developer magazine has revealed a 7% increase from $74,000 in 2007.

Salaries do vary depending on experience, and who you'd be working for but average figures fall around:

  • Programmers: $85,024
  • Artists: $69,532
  • Game Designers: $67,379
  • Producers: $82,905
  • Quality Assurance: $39,571
  • Audio: $78,167
  • Business & Marketing: $102,143

    • Thanks to Kotaku.

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    knighty is offline. knighty 30.04.2009#1

    Business & Marketing: $102,143

    ^ FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

     
    erv is offline. erv 30.04.2009#2

    knighty said:
    Business & Marketing: $102,143

    ^ FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

    My thoughts exactly, especially how bad they are with the following:

    1. Proper timing for a game launch (aka not in the same week the same demographic of people would buy another anticipated game...)
    2. Communicating quality titles without settled IP's. Always telling gamers how much you believe in the good game coming up, but in the end all that gets promoted is the been-there-done-thats of gaming. Never putting their money where their mouth is.
    3. Providing feedback on titles towards developers and gamers at various points where your part of talk is so irrelevant that any of your efforts are annoying at best, yet so early staged that nobody can leave them be (have reggie announce pac man, or remember the red steel controls part?)
    4. "Believing" there's a market just before creating it, completely destroying your potential built up in recent years - "free radical, let's make haze instead of real-good-super-title-guaranteed-to-rock-timesplitters-for-well-known-platform-we-made-the-hell-out-of-sucking in our own silly minds because, JUST BECAUSE, you know..."
    5. Throwing every bit of publishable material on a giant pile of developed matter, make own priorities as to what to market and communicate where, causing the gems to suffocate in our egocentric business model
    6. Investing in freaking fifa '98 version 8.0 should get you FIRED! (just a moral issue...)

    Should we go on?

    pfffffff.....

     
    Im_Neutral is offline. Im_Neutral 30.04.2009#3

    You Two put everything i was thinking and more. That is pretty shocking but good to know the money they earn.

     
    Erotic_Spider is offline. Erotic_Spider 30.04.2009#4

    Just shows that marketing really is the most important part of making a game sell.
    Its why Fifa is always top of the charts.

    -Have you any idea what it's like to be a Fembot living in a Manbot's Manputer's world?
    -What?
     
    Echoes221 is offline. Echoes221 30.04.2009#5

    Good job I am doing business at university ^^

     
    Flynnie is online! Flynnie 01.05.2009#6

    Echoes221 said:
    Good job I am doing business at university ^^

    Likewise, im doing marketing!

     

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