The average video game developer makes a lot less than the average tech worker. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone lower than a Director hitting $300k from wh

The average video game developer makes a lot less than the average tech worker. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone lower than a Director hitting $300k from what I figure. Glassdoor indicates a "Senior Software Engineer" at Blizzard (considered one of the better companies, afaik) makes between 63k-126k. A "Game designer" makes 33k-72k. Video game industry also works long hours with a lot of crunchtime. And this doesn't even get into EA, or the other megalithic companies that push out dozens of titles every quarter. The video game industry gets away with working their engineers harder and for less money, because people generally like building video games.