Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter

Re:Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter by BeetleB on Monday May 10, 2021 @06:31PM (#27111687)

> 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.

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Re:Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter by mLuby on Monday May 10, 2021 @09:11PM (#27112983)

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?

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Re:Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter by ivalm on Monday May 10, 2021 @09:55PM (#27113275)

I’ve heard people say mid six figure (400-600) and high six figure (700+). If people just say six figure I expect 100-300k.

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Re:Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter by jgwil2 on Monday May 10, 2021 @09:46PM (#27113204)

It's a convenient floor for the time being. At some point inflation will probably render it useless and we'll come up with a new phrase.

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