Wyrdness said:
It's different for each person and company. |
Very true. However based on my experience and the people I know (about 12-15 different studios from EA Canada to Ubisoft, to Blizzard, to Warner Brothers, to SCE Liverpool among others), it is almost always a base salary and overtime that is typically paid in time off post-release if at all. My current company has that structure, and only starts paying out overtime monitarily if you have over 2 months of overtime hours banked and you're so critical to the next project, they cannot afford to have you off longer. Even then, they decide when you take your overtime time off. Someone literally came by my desk a few month ago, and said "starting tomorrow you have the next 3 weeks off". Sometimes there's flexibility if you had an event coming up that you'd be taking time off for anyways, like my honeymoon was an overtime vacation.
The average employment rate at my current studio is less than 2 years. People get a party thrown for them if they're there over 10 years.
