Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter

Re:Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter by tayo42 on Monday May 10, 2021 @07:39PM (#27112319)

Theres no reason to not pay for the best. Engineer's provide so much value compared to an individuals cost. I can give an a example of what I'm working on. I'm doing maybe 2-3months of work, the project cut a one time cost in half saving 10million dollars. I make about quarter million in a year. A tiny fraction of the value I provided this year alone. Why penny pinch on pay and risk having employees that might not be as good? 100k is 1 percent of that value.

Now that I type this out I feel like I'm getting ripped off. BRB to demand a raise lol

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Re:Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter by johnnyanmac on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @02:33PM (#27133588)

>Why penny pinch on pay and risk having employees that might not be as good?

with regards to the game industry: because outside of maybe a dozen studios worldwide (EA and Rockstar studios level of profit), most of the games industry literally cannot compete with the salaries FAANG offers.

all those trillion dollar companies have dozens of services and products to monetize off of (indirectly or directly). Games need hundreds of employees to deploy one short lived project in a few years minimum. And attempts to monetize in a service format (the default for FAANG) has been met with much criticism. So games operate on razor thin profits.

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Re:Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter by nsoonhui on Monday May 10, 2021 @10:00PM (#27113320)

>Why penny pinch on pay and risk having employees that might not be as good?

Because they can afford to not pay you as well, and your value ( or rather, the "damage" caused by the not-so-good employee) is hard to prove.

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