How much do video game programmers make?

[dsgrue3]

phnguyen89 said:

dsgrue3 said:
Okay I'm going to school for programming...computer science engineering specifically. You are going to need to be able to do TONS of math.
I have taken Calculus 1-3, Matrix Algebra, Intro to Numerical Methods (it's how they derive a lot of calculus techniques), Prob&Stats for Engineers, Physics 1 & 2

And if you take any form of computer graphics course you NEED to understand matrices, so matrix algebra is very beneficial.

As far as specifically video game programmers I have no idea and would imagine the salary wages vary vastly from company to company, however, with my degree, I believe starting out it's around 55k a year.

Don't give people a false sense of what CS/CE is about.  You do NOT need math at ALL UNLESS you are in graphics/algorithm related fields.

Simply stating my curriculum. As it is all I can contribute to the matter. I agree though, I haven't used much math in many programming assignments, other than built in math functions and calling them. It seems to only be in graphics that math is widely used and you need to understand the matrices for translations and transformations.

 

To the poster who graduated with the same degree, what did your friends end up doing instead? Seems like a huge waste to get a degree and then not use it? Did they have BS or BAs?