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4K+ verified game industry salaries

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2 comments, last by loveforgames 6 years, 4 months ago

Hey Guys -

New to the group but sharing a free resource to help provide guidance on salary expectations for various game industry jobs. Specifically these are actual base salaries from over 100 game companies for H1-B visa hires (companies are required to disclose these by law)- neatly packaged by company and job title:

https://www.loveforgames.com/salary/

I’m happy to pull custom reports. If anyone has specific questions, don’t be shy :)

Enjoy!

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Do you have total compensation numbers? Base salaries are a little misleading in this industry.

For example, Twitch is almost certainly subject to Amazon's company-wide salary cap of $160k, so salaries are adjusted to be below that level, and they'll make up the difference in stock and signing bonus. I'd be surprised if those $130k Twitch salaries in the Bay area weren't part of a $200k+ comp package...

Tristam MacDonald. Ex-BigTech Software Engineer. Future farmer. [https://trist.am]

Unfortunately only base salaries are disclosed. Signing, performance bonuses, equity programs, etc. aren’t made public. 

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