Is anyone here working as unity game dev programmer ?
I went through the job posters on some sites, it looks like unity game dev makes decent money.
But i want to ask you, how much do you make?( Just curious)
Either 50/60 USD an hour or a MINIMUM 400 USD a week Salary working the hours I want is what I do.
That’s how I’ve always worked though. So chances are only serious people will hire somebody at the rates I mentioned above, because I’ve found usually any less are people who really just don’t know anything and then want to do Profit Sharing crap.
So I try to whim out the people who aren’t serious by only working for serious places which can pay me what I believe my work is truly worth and never underselling my self.
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How about this http://www.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=&from=serp??
Says page cannot be found.
Looks like they had enough appliants salary was 75k$ -115k 2-5 years experience Does it looks realistic? I heard there are so many game dev that they ear like 40k a year and that scared me…
Depends where you live. Remember that most game development happens in large(expensive) cities. 40k in a rural town may be equivalent to 70k in LA. Overall, if you’re in it for the money, game development isn’t for you. If you don’t have a passion for it, you’ll be eaten up and spit to the curb in <2 years.
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Entry level mobile development has a similar salary range to that. 40k might be the salary for entry level game devs in some places.
I’m making 40k in wayne/ramsey, the taxes are killing me, I cannot afford to live alone 
… 
Salaries are so much higher in the US than the UK… Living costs must be much higher too I assume, or else that’s just not fair 
Look at the cost of games on steam for…
US
UK
Russia
Brazil
While sometimes your country has different prices for things based on your economy (russia), sometimes it really is unfair (brazil). I think it’s something like… a few hours of work gets you a game in 1 (US too), but a game in brazil can cost you 1/3 of your monthly pay!
I’m talking about living costs, not costs of luxury items. Though yes, economies of different countries is obviously the main factor here. It was more just my general dismay of those salary figures being so high, I’d love to get $40k, it just isn’t quite what it seems.
Well after taxes I take home like $2000. And after expenses (bills and stuff - despite living with other people) I have like $200 left. So after other ongoing expenses like food and gas. I probably gross $0 annually 
As was said, earning potential varies greatly from region to region within the same country, even. Country to country will be even more diverse.
I previously held a position as a developer doing a combination of Unity and HTML game development for a small company in Lancaster, PA (USA). I negotiated them up to $60k with some pretty decent benefits, including working remotely 3 days a week. I did this with only a small selection of demo/prototype games to show combined with my years of web development experience.
I do think this had more to do with the owner’s lack of technical understanding (I was overqualified for what they actually needed, even), and I was the highest paid employee in their company. They’ve since ran into financial troubles and downsized by nearly half, and within a few months of that I left to accept a different position. So your mileage may vary quite a bit from this.
It’s all up from here. Stay for 8 to 15 months and gain as much xp as you can. Get another job. Repeat a few times and you should be close to double that. The thing that “kills” most folks is staying at the same place too long. It’s awesome if you’re making the income you desire and are worth. But generally your skills will increase far faster than your wages at any one company.
I’ve even known people who stayed at a company for many years making around $40k per year, bounced around to a couple other places for a few years then were hired back at their original company (they greatly preferred that culture) in the same job at $62k per year. Yet had they simply stayed there they may have been at $45k.
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Well that is my passion, but im realist, if something wont give me enough money to make a decent living ill have to screw my Dreams and go to the other industry 
And doesnt really matter where ill live, as long as its country with English as main English language (i can speak EN PL GE)
Where do you live and work, that you get 50/60$ per hour, and the living cost, can u live decent?
EDIT: Im Just 17, not really a psycho, i meant the country like USA, UK
And uhm i wouldnt be satisfied with 20$ :S my problem is i like to spend and i cant really controll that Xd, so 50/60$ per hour is 5040412=96k$? And 6040412 =115k$ per year would satisfy me i belive. Good car,house, vacations etc…
About the hours, 40 hours working weekly is normal for me, always can get up earlier and work remotly right? answer honestly… Do you really can get there like 50/60 $ per hour? I know im kinda chit Who asks about salary but i need to know what direction should i take in life… Go for game dev, mobile dev, software etc.
Please don’t spam posts, if you need to add more, just click on Edit and then just put EDIT - and your message or something.
But I live in South East USA.
Not going to specify where as Idk if your a psycho, but I’ll just say Deep South, (no not Florida) lol.
Granted some places, houses are 20+ million dollars for a 1200 sq foot house.
But if you live in the country like I do, I can easily live comfortably over 20 an hour as long as I get paid at a rate of 40 hours per week (800 USD). Granted I can make 400 a week work (20 Hours). Just won’t be able to do anything extra, like have a life lol.
I don’t need a 20 million dollar house, I’d rather go spend 40 grand and get me a brand new double wide mobile home and call it a day lol.
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You guys aren’t making any money because you spend too much time on the forums! 
Hey I’ve made 1500 dollars in a day doing nothing but watching TV. Glory of selling finished Assets lol.
Edit - in 8 hours. Equivalent to 187.5 dollars per hour lol.
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That’s a great way to go. The “like to spend” approach to life is the kind of thing that mainly just gets folks in way over their heads. No matter how much money you make you can always spend it all. I’ve spent most of my life pushing my expenses down while pushing my income up. Just trying to make that gap between the two as big as I can.
That doesn’t mean I live in a cardboard box and eat ramen noodles every day (although I did that for many months once well not the cardboard box thing lol). Just means that instead of going out and buying a new fancy truck I still drive the one I bought 14 years ago. If I see some real value in things I will spend. I hire folks to do work for me from time to time. But spending just for the sake of spending (or to get the latest and greatest continually) is just foolishness in my opinion. Once in a while sure that is reasonable.
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