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by Steve Gibson, Jun 18, 2002 10:55am PDT

Since we certainly have a big portion of aspiring game developers out there or at least people who are interested in how things go in the industry, here's some numbers you guys may find interesting. From a recent GDC survey:

- The average game programmer salary is $66,000. - A technical director with 6 or more years experience earns an average of $104,000. - Game artists earn an average of $61,000. - A game designer with one year of experience earns an average of $52,000, with the highest salary reported at $300,000. - Game producers earn an average of $76,000. - Developer salaries are highest in California and Texas, where game development studios tend to cluster. - Women in the game industry fare better than women in other industries, earning 89 cents on the dollar, exceeding the national average of 76 cents.


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    By: flu1dc0re x
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    I get Game Dev magazine and this is what it said..

    "This year's survey was conducted by research frm Audience Insights. In March 2002, 1,178 Game Developers Conferenece attendees took our comprehensive annual survey, of which the salary survey is one module, using on-site tablet computers. Then, in April, we e-mailed invitations to all Game Developer magazine subscribers and Gamasutra.com members asking them to participate in the survey and received 5,256 responses.

    The survey data presented here is based on a total of 2,524 responses that remained after we eliminated responses that provided no numerical compensation data and those whose compensation figures were less than $10,000 or greater than $300,000 per year. We also eliminated responses that lacked certain demographic and classification information.

    The sample represented in the salary survey data can be projected to the game development industry as a whole with a margin of error of 1.93 percent at the 95 percent confidence level. That means we can say with 95 percent certainty that the aggregate statistics reported in this survey would stay consistent within the margin of error across the entire population."

    hope this clarifies a few things

    also a programmer 6+ years in the industry reported making $81,766.
    lead programmer $78,626
    and a technical director $104,217
    Jun 18, 2002 1:39pm PDT