A neat way to find about industry salaries in the US
Using the H1B database:
http://www.flcdatacenter.com/CaseH1B.aspx
H1Bs are visas granted to foreigners (outside the NAFTA countries). They usually take 3 months to acquire and thus employers are not hiring juniors nor low-balling potential employees.
Interesting fact: Game development pays about $20-40K less than film for similar roles.
1 comment February 27th, 2008