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I know the North East doesn't demand London salaries but even here in the North West you can get more than £20k as a junior. I guess it depends on your priorit

I know the North East doesn't demand London salaries but even here in the North West you can get more than £20k as a junior. I guess it depends on your priorities. Are you learning a lot? Do you enjoy it? etc.

gambiting 12y ago
I do enjoy it, I get to work on a game that sells millions of copies per year, and I currently have every single devkit(Xbox 360,Xbox One, PS4, Wii, Wii U) right on my desk and I get to work with them,which I always found exciting. So yeah, I am working at my dream job, because I always wanted to get into the games industry. I am just saying that in any other industry, I could literally be making £10k more/year, which means that in a way, I am paying almost a £1000 a month just to have the privilege of working in the games industry.
- ido 12y ago
  £18k (€22.2k, or 1850 €/month) for a programmer is significantly less than what you'd get in Germany or Austria for the same position. My very first job in the game industry paid almost 50% more than that & that was some years ago. I believe in Austria the legal minimum (from the Kollektivvertrag) you can get paid as a programmer is 2.1k €/month, 14 times a year (so €29.4k/year) and most people start above that minimum.
  - gambiting 12y ago
    :-( This makes me sad,especially since some of my friends decided to stay at uni to do their PhDs, and their stipends are higher than what I am earning,and they also don't have to pay tax on it. So I think I have chosen the worst paying career a programmer can choose.
  - hackerboos 12y ago
    Can English only speakers find jobs in Germany/Austria?
    - atesti 12y ago
      Yes! (in Germany)
      - ido 12y ago
        Also in Austria, or most anywhere in western europe for this matter (might be different in a couple of renownedly monolingual countries like Italy or France but definitelly anywhere in the map http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic-speaking_Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic-speaking_Europe).

gambiting 12y ago

I do enjoy it, I get to work on a game that sells millions of copies per year, and I currently have every single devkit(Xbox 360,Xbox One, PS4, Wii, Wii U) right on my desk and I get to work with them,which I always found exciting. So yeah, I am working at my dream job, because I always wanted to get into the games industry. I am just saying that in any other industry, I could literally be making £10k more/year, which means that in a way, I am paying almost a £1000 a month just to have the privilege of working in the games industry.

ido 12y ago
£18k (€22.2k, or 1850 €/month) for a programmer is significantly less than what you'd get in Germany or Austria for the same position. My very first job in the game industry paid almost 50% more than that & that was some years ago. I believe in Austria the legal minimum (from the Kollektivvertrag) you can get paid as a programmer is 2.1k €/month, 14 times a year (so €29.4k/year) and most people start above that minimum.
- gambiting 12y ago
  :-( This makes me sad,especially since some of my friends decided to stay at uni to do their PhDs, and their stipends are higher than what I am earning,and they also don't have to pay tax on it. So I think I have chosen the worst paying career a programmer can choose.
- hackerboos 12y ago
  Can English only speakers find jobs in Germany/Austria?
  - atesti 12y ago
    Yes! (in Germany)
    - ido 12y ago
      Also in Austria, or most anywhere in western europe for this matter (might be different in a couple of renownedly monolingual countries like Italy or France but definitelly anywhere in the map http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic-speaking_Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic-speaking_Europe).