The 80 Level portal asked more than a thousand gaming specialists about the level of their annual salaries, and also studied the relevant data from analytical companies. He found out how much developers earn in different countries and whether they have enough money for a comfortable life.

In the second half of 2023, IT specialists in Russia earned less than at the beginning of the year. According to Habr Career estimates, the median salary fell the most among game developers — by 28% to 128 thousand rubles.

In what currency and how much they get in the Russian-speaking game dev in Cyprus. These and many other questions are answered in the salary study of the Cypriot gaming industry App2Top.ru and Talents In Games.

Almost a quarter of gaming companies with offices/ employees in Russia conducted indexing, or made additional payments to their employees due to rising inflation.

Consulting firm Games One told which game companies’ CEOs earned the most in 2020. Three people have an annual income of over $ 100 million. Among them are Robert Antokol from Playtika and Bobby Kotick from Activision Blizzard.

Last week, the hashtag #GameDevPaidMe started gaining popularity on Twitter again. Under it, gaming specialists from all over the world share their salaries. We chose the most interesting of the tweets.

For the second year in a row App2Top.ru and Talents In Games conducts a survey on the level of salaries in the Russian-speaking game dev and areas close to it. As a result, a large-scale study of the market situation will be published.

Ivan Agarkov, Production Security Team Lead at Wargaming, wrote a big thread about salaries in the IT sphere. He spoke about the basic principles of the formation of the labor market, the importance of soft skills, the difference in salaries for women and men, and negotiations for an increase. We chose the main thing from Agarkov’s thread.

What is the average salary of game developers in the market, how many of them are women, does higher education affect wages — these and many other questions are answered by a new salary study from Talents In Games and App2Top.ru .

A table in which Blizzard employees shared their salaries was publicly available. Now the document contains information about almost 400 specialists.

In recent years, teams from Russia have increasingly chosen Unreal Engine to work. We tried to figure out why this is happening, how great is the demand for Unreal developers, what kind of specialists the market needs and how much they are willing to pay.

Recruiting agency Values Value has published a study on salaries in the CIS gaming industry for 2018. We have prepared a short version of the report, which focused on the salaries of market specialists.

Recruiting company VALUES VALUE conducted a survey among game developers from the CIS and found out that compared to 2017, women began to receive less, and men’s salaries remained approximately at the same level.

In the spring of 2017, the Ukrainian company Values Value, founded by Tanya Loktionova (Evdokimenko), conducted a large-scale survey of gaming industry specialists from the CIS about salaries. App2Top.ru publishes excerpts from the results of the study.

Almost 90% of game developers constantly or periodically work beyond the time stipulated in the contract.

For a year, a game developer receives an average of $36.9 thousand or £33.8 thousand (at the exchange rate as of February 2, 2016). This was reported by the resource Develop Online after a large-scale survey.

Against the background of the first decline in Apple’s quarterly profit in 10 years, the Apple company announced how much app developers earn using its platform. 

The Head Hunter company timed the publication of interesting statistical data concerning the prospects and attractiveness of the programmer’s profession in the modern labor market to coincide with the Programmer’s Day, which is celebrated every 256th day of the year (including today, September 12).