Game Development Industry Salaries 2025

Salaries by profession and skill level sourced from our database

Category

Profession level

Position
Q1
Median
Q3
Business development manager
1700
3000
5250
Sales Manager
1900
3500
10000
Community Manager / Moderator
1050
1750
2500
Account manager
1750
2750
5500
Support Specialist
1000
1500
2000
Recruiter
1300
1800
2500
HR Manager
900
1800
2700
Data Scientist / Analytics
1500
3000
4650
Game Designer
1000
2000
3000
Lead Game Designer
2500
3500
5250
Level Designer
1225
2000
3000
Narrative Designer / Script Writer
1000
1500
2500
2D Artist
1000
1500
2500
3D Artist
1000
1500
2000
UI/UX Designer
1400
2150
3250
Concept Artist
1050
1800
2500
Motion design
1500
2000
2900
Technical Artist
1500
2350
3500
2D Animator
1200
2000
2500
3D Animator
1200
2000
2550
Visual Effects Artist
1800
2500
3350
Art Director
2450
4000
5000
Sound Designer
1200
2000
3000
Localization Manager
700
1800
2638
User Acquisition
2000
3000
5000
Digital Marketing Manager
2000
3000
5000
SMM manager
1500
2000
2500
Copywriter
1500
2000
3000
Marketing Analyst
2000
3000
5000
CMO
4600
5000
9000
Producer
2500
3500
5000
Product Manager
2500
3500
5000
Project Manager
1500
2500
3500
COO
4750
5000
7500
General Producer / General PM
3200
5000
6000
CTO
5000
6250
10000
JavaScript Developer
2000
2999
4000
Unreal Engine Developer
1500
2500
4000
C++ Developer
1500
2800
4500
Python Developer
700
1250
2000
Unity Developer
1234
2200
3500
Backend Developer
1500
2500
5000
Frontend Developer
1350
3000
3750
DevOps engineer
2000
4000
6667
Manual QA Engineer
1000
1500
2500
QA Automation Engineer
1000
2050
3500
QA Director
2750
3400
4000
Content Manager
1500
2000
3000
C# / .NET Developer
1350
2500
5000
Full Stack Developer
2000
3500
5000
Technical writer
1000
2000
3000
Administrative
1200
1450
2000
HTML5/JS Developer
1800
3000
4250
Character Rigger/Animation Artist
1150
1600
2450
Icon/Graphic Designer
1610
2500
3500
Composer
1000
2000
3000
Art Manager
2000
3000
3500
Game Publishing Manager
1750
3300
5000
Video Game Proofreader
1000
2250
3000
Game Translator
1000
1850
2500
Subtitle Translator
1200
2000
2500
Editor
1500
2000
3000
UX Researcher
1500
2100
4000
Head of Game Design
3000
4750
6000
Technical Designer
1400
1800
3000
Unreal Artist
1500
2000
2650
Art Lead
2000
2500
4000
BI Analyst
1100
2500
5000
Creative Manager
2250
3500
4750

Salaries in the game development industry are always an interesting topic for both candidates and companies. The Big Salary Survey is held annually so that game developers could find out what's going on in the industry and share the information with all interested in parties.

Deciphering abbreviations:
Q1 - the first salary quartile in US dollars;
Median - median value of salaries in US dollars;
Q3 — the third quartile of salary values in US dollars;

The report 2024 offers key insights into the games job market, analyzing industry trends on salaries, workplace challenges, satisfaction, discrimination, AI integration, and the rise of freelancing.

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The 2021 Salary Survey collected 2413 responses. Read the results by clicking the button below:

The 2020 Salary Survey collected 2163 responses. Read the results by clicking the button below:

The Big Salary Survey of 2019 collected a record 2000 responses. Download an extended version of the presentation for DevGAMM Moscow 2019 with the results of the Big Salary Survey 2019:

The 2018 Salary Survey collected 1200 responses. Read the results by clicking the button below:

The first big salary survey in the CIS was conducted in 2017 when 836 anonymous questionnaires were collected. Read the results by clicking the button below: