Not really. I'd say high risk high paying jobs. You can get a job as a finance associate and have pretty great job security but you won't be getting paid anywhere near what a game dev makes
Last time I checked game devs don't get paid all that much. There's lots of talk of engineers and coders heading off to better paying jobs with more stability. Have salaries increased?
Developers in other industries get paid comparably, or higher than gamedevs.
Sorry. I'm talking about relatively. Just a quick google search says 83k is the average salary for a developer. A finance associate is getting like 40-45k starting out. So it's a lot more relatively
Why are you comparing the average with the pay someone gets when they start? Seems like a pretty silly thing to do.
Err... what? Comparing an average with a starting salary? Fine, the average compensation paid by Goldman Sachs to its employees is $336,830.
Haha no. My partner is a teacher here in Australia, fresh off her masters graduating last year and she got a rural placement for her first ever job in the classroom (not typically unusual due to desperately needing rural teachers) and it's a guaranteed life time job. Even better, she's off the bat on $80k, that's fucking nuts. Me? I'm now studying teacher aide while I continue to do my own work on my game ideas because I still feel passionate enough but it's no where near possible to do it properly.
This simply isn't true.
And? EA's headquarters are in Redwood Shores, CA, and Activision is Santa Monica, and Ubi are based in Paris. Those other tech companies also have staff all over the world, not only at their HQ.
Completely fair point. To compare the most analogous one, Ubisoft in San Francisco, still only grosses the $123K - $138K range, which is still under what people in that area are making for a similar role. Not to mention the perks and stability associated with the aforementioned tech companies.
For examples, all the engine work of Frostbite is being worked in Sweden by DICE. Ubisoft has a lot of employees in Montreal, where the salary is still very competitive compared to other software companies.
EA is about a half hour's drive from all of those three tech giants.
And EA being in the Bay Area, along with other Bay Area studios, also skews their pay towards the high end. Game studios in other parts of the country pay their engineers far more modestly.
They all would to an extent, however, the video game industry takes a lot of leeway with the "dream job" rule and uses it to undercut pay across the board. Some junior level roles at tech companies are competitive with senior level roles at game companies compensation-wise.
