IGN Talks Games Industry Salaries

WeebMac writes "IGN has a new career-themed section and one of their first stories is about the earning potential available to those who make their careers in the gaming industry. From TFA, 'Beginning programmers, whether you're working on tools, gameplay, networking, audio, AI, or animation, you can expect to start off with a salary in the area of $60K with the potential for more in the way of sales-based royalties or bonuses or stock options depending on the particular company you've been hired by."

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Re:What I'd REALLY like to know

[RailGunner]

Assuming 80 hour work weeks, working 50 weeks out of the year, 60K works out to:

$15 bucks an hour.

Assuming you work 80 hours a week, and you get time-and-a-half overtime, you only need to make $12 an hour. If you're competent, you can make more than $12 an hour managing a Burger King.

For further comparison: Most contractors are able to bill for over $40 an hour, in many cases more than this.

Bottom line is this: If you're working mandatory overtime, there's a line where it'd be better to go sling burgers.

Convert that to an hourly wage...

[mike_the_engineer]

$60K a year / 50 weeks per year / 80 hours per week = $15 per hour