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Yeah, no where close to that. Entry level is around 30-40k, after a 3-5 years you can be expecting 50-60k if you're lucky. There are exceptions but I saw my sa
by vvanders 8y ago
Yeah, no where close to that. Entry level is around 30-40k, after a 3-5 years you can be expecting 50-60k if you're lucky.
There are exceptions but I saw my salary double when I left the industry and from talking with other people it seemed like a pretty common pattern.
FWIW games follows the 90/10 rule(90% of revenue goes to 10% of the market) so while the 100k average may be "accurate" it doesn't paint a clear picture.
- maxerickson 8y ago30k is entry level for competent labor jobs in Timbuktu.
- aczerepinski 8y agoThese are for programmers? Yikes! I mean it's still a lot more than the zero that most musicians and actors make, but an extremely surprising amount nonetheless.
- vvanders 8y agoYup, lower for Art and even lower for Design usually. Producers/PM tend to be close to dev salaries. The real twist on this is that these aren't stable jobs either. Every studio I know had some sort of closure/downsizing around the 3-5 year mark. I know many people who had to be constantly moving between SEA/SF/Austin/etc just to keep a job across a career.
- krapp 8y agoDon't be fooled by HN and the hype of the SV bubble - the vast majority of programming work in the real world is the digital equivalent of factory assembly line labor.