Salaries grow because people negotiate for better salaries, either through collective action or by being indispensable and getting better offers, not by magic.
The game industry is full of wannabes chomping at the bit to get in, so maybe seniors can hope to haggle for a higher cut or become partners of a studio, everyone else is entirely replaceable, which means their salaries will grow extremely slowly already.
Add to that that the industry selects for financially stable/affluent croney kids by using unpaid internships to filter anyone who would be overly dependent on their salary and basically select for rich “starving” artist types and you have a recipe for a ridiculously strong buyer’s market when it comes to salaries.
Yeah, sales have also gone way up.
So then why haven’t software developer’s salaries gone up proportionally?
Cause that’s not how salaries work?
Salaries grow because people negotiate for better salaries, either through collective action or by being indispensable and getting better offers, not by magic.
The game industry is full of wannabes chomping at the bit to get in, so maybe seniors can hope to haggle for a higher cut or become partners of a studio, everyone else is entirely replaceable, which means their salaries will grow extremely slowly already.
Add to that that the industry selects for financially stable/affluent croney kids by using unpaid internships to filter anyone who would be overly dependent on their salary and basically select for rich “starving” artist types and you have a recipe for a ridiculously strong buyer’s market when it comes to salaries.