How much do video game programmers make?

[jneul]

Icyedge said:

jneul said:

Tanstalas said:

Xoj said:

jneul said:
I dunno what good employers pay, but my old boss was a skinflint used to give me 20k a year for being a software programmer, but i quit due to the stress, and the way they treated me

thats decent in here , here we made 1400-1800$ for software developers

and many even start at 800$ monthly.

engineers got 1800-4000$+

 

about how they treat you, yeah, software people are always pulled down, because they think programing it's "easy"

well it is, for people that like it.

Geez, move to Canada, those are terrible wages, well, I guess it depends on your cost of living as well.  Programmers here make a decent amount, depending on job/employer, etc I would say most entry level jobs don't start at less than 50k

I always wanted to move to canada lol, don't you need to meet cetain criteria tho??

Actually its easy enough to immigrate here if you have a degree. If you wanna learn french, the province of Quebec is really easy to immigrate to because of the high volume of space against low birth rate. But the government force you to take french course even if you go to a city where evryone speak english (montreal/ theres ubisoft (prince of persia/assasin creed) and EA there). If you dont wanna learn french than your best bet is the province of Ontario, select a place like Ottawa or Toronto, but im not sure theres a lot of jobs in the video game business.

My girlfriend is franco-chillian, first she came here with her family on "vacation". Once here they applied to have their residence, everything worked out well. Thats 4 years ago, and now she has her citizenship and shes studying in medicine (which was her goal because the university in Chili are not greatly qualified). So its not that hard.

thats where my problem lies i am one short of a degree (i have a HND lol).