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New York’s new Pay Transparency Act gives us an unusual view of the salary range for game developers. Rockstar, Ubisoft, Take-Two, Epic and other companies have offices in New York and are required to disclose salary ranges for all open positions starting this week.
Ace did us a favor and went through a lot of job postings to give us salary ranges for some of these positions. The best jobs can bring in over $ 200,000, while the worst jobs are part-time minimum wage jobs in New York.
At Rockstar, the highest paid product lead job was ($ 163,000 to $ 184,000). Then came the voice director ($ 123,000 to $ 144,000), then the physics programmer ($ 121,000 to $ 142,000) and then the cheat analyst ($ 103,000 to $ 120,000). The junior dialogue designer position is only worth $ 50,000 to $ 57,000.
Epic Games offered the highest potential salary in the group, with a senior product manager for Unreal Engine who could earn up to $ 242,000. However, there appears to be a significant gap in Epic as the position starts at $ 187,000.A content policy and operations manager can earn between $ 159,000 and $ 206,000.
Take-Two had several vacancies. A Senior Systems Engineer at Ghost Story Games can earn between $ 121,000 and $ 142,000, while a Human Resources or Marketing Director at Private Division can earn between $ 170,000 and $ 198,000, and a Proactive Security Software Engineer can start at $ 158,000 up to $ 214,000.
Activision posted a job posting for a Senior Sales Manager starting at $ 77,000 and going up to $ 114,000, and Ubisoft posted a part-time job for a Demo Stand Agent that started at $ 15 an hour, which is the minimum salary. .
Axios notes that similar pay transparency laws will go into effect next year in California and Washington, allowing us to obtain payroll data across a wide range of the gaming industry. Valve, Bungie, Microsoft, Nintendo, EA, Activision, Riot, and many other companies operate in these states. Transparency is a key requirement for many of the new emerging unions in the gaming industry. It is good to see that the law is on the side of the unions.
