Re:Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter
by kelnos on Monday May 10, 2021 @06:00PM
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Right, and that's a perfectly reasonable choice to make. But that's not what this thread is about. It's about being paid at a similar level as your pay, but being expected to work 60+ hour weeks for several months out of the year.
No thanks.
But hey, each to their own, I guess. If a game dev wants to work more and get paid less because they love building games, that's their choice.
Re:Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter
by BeetleB on Monday May 10, 2021 @06:31PM
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> I currently make 6 low figures in a relatively boring but non-stressful systems administration job.
For context, I was contacted by a game dev company recently. The max they could pay me was 5 figures.
Doing a gaming job for 40 hours a week for low 6 figures is fine. However, it's not the reality for many, if not most, game devs.
Re:Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter
by mLuby on Monday May 10, 2021 @09:11PM
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The phrase "six-figure salary" is so strange. We're almost always referring to slightly above $100K. Does anyone ever say "I make six figures" and mean $900K, or even half a million?
A bunch of people already responded to this, but I'm going to add my two cents anyway:
I currently make 6 low figures in a relatively boring but non-stressful systems administration job. The company is a dinosaur in Internet Years and has its idiosyncrasies but is ultimately a very decent place to work. My manager gives me my priorities and then gets out of my way to let me do my work. I work 40 hours a week, sometimes less. The company is mostly software devs and QA, so there's no such thing as on-call because nothing we manage needs 24x7 uptime. In 10 years, there have been about 3 times I've gotten a call on the weekend to help bring something back online.
I could very easily double my salary in under a year if I really buckled down and tried to pivot to DevOps role in some rapidly growing biotech or fintech (read: crypto) company instead. The tradeoffs being: 1) sacrificing basically all my free time and time with my family in order to adequately grok the ever-changing world of DevOps 2) that feeling of being out of my depth for 6 months to a year that comes with moving to a new company 3) almost certainly being part of an on-call rotation 4) taking a risk on a new company that may go bankrupt or get bought out a few years down the road, and so on.
I'm making an active choice to keep my stability and work/life balance while making what I consider to be a reasonable wage.