Posts tagged salary

Activision CEO made nearly $15 million last year

by Griffin McElroy (Aug 10th 2009 10:00PM)

Say what you will about Activision CEO Robert Kotick -- and from what we've seen in previous posts, you will -- the guy knows how to make money. Not just for Activision as a whole (which raked in close to $1 billion in Q2 this year), but for himself as well -- according to a recent Forbes profile ...

Game industry salaries increased 7% in 2008

by JC Fletcher (Apr 30th 2009 12:30PM)

Game Developer magazine's 2008 Game Developer Salary Survey features something we wouldn't expect to see: good news. Gamasutra's summary of the survey notes that the average salary for people working in the American game industry (those who still work in the game industry, at least) went up 7% in ...

More than half of UK devs happy with pay

by Alexander Sliwinski (Mar 16th 2009 8:45PM)

Develop's survey of 528 UK developers found the average salary on the islands to be £30,442 ($43,087). Although that's a few thousand pounds higher than the average annual salary in the UK, there appear to be significant differences in pay when compared to American counterparts. Not that it ...