Entry Level Game Industry Salaries

An anonymous reader writes "Game Tycoon has posted some informal information about entry-level salaries for students entering the video game industry." From the article: "Students who applied for engineering jobs seem to be getting offers in the 70s -- in some cases, the high 70s. The same students got offers approximately 10K higher from companies in other industries; i.e. Oracle, Microsoft, etc. So the gap between game company offers and non-game company offers appears to be narrowing for engineers. In general, I was amazed at how high the offers were!"

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Re:Take it with a grain of salt

[EggyToast]

Conversely, your job is likely more secure as well as having better benefits. I work in non-profit, and the management is less crazed and there's actual sick and vacation days (and a lot, at that, and they don't go away). Regular wage increases and increases from reclassification of jobs affect everyone, not just new/old people, and I feel more secure in my future here.

I could probably make more money out in the for-profit world of corporations, but I'm much happier here. And my sanity and free time is definitely worth something to me.

IGDA/Gamasutra annual salary survey

[saarbruck]

The Independent Game Developer's Association (IGDA) and Gamasutra take an annual salary survey for the game industry, including developers, artists, designers and producers. I think you have to be registered to see them, but here are links to the results from

2003

2002

2001

And yes, I said annual, and the most recent result I could find was 2003. I think the 2005 results are still being tallied? And 2004? Must have been a bad year...