salaries
Spry Fox bosses slashed their salaries to buy out the studio and launch cozy MMO Spirit Crossing later this year
Indie games studio Spry Fox has had a wild couple of years: After being bought up by Netflix back in 2022, it was bought back by its founders ahead of the 2025 holiday season, in a story that seems to be a lot more common these days as megacorps forget why they even wanted to […]
GDC: 60% of game developers in the US reported an increase in salaries, with an average pay of $142,000 a year
The median salary is lower—$129,000. This is reported in a recent Game Developers Conference (GDC) study that included participation from 562 American developers. Below are some more findings from it. The highest average annual salaries were found among managers ($160,000) and programmers ($150,000). The lowest were among artists ($124,000). Only 15% of surveyed AAA studio […]