Software Games Survey
Compensation and Benefits
The Croner Software Games Survey – North America is our benchmark compensation and benefits Survey of the entertainment software industry for software gaming jobs in North America.
This leading-edge report provides compensation data for jobs in all gaming platform types – including mobile, social, console, PC, cloud, handheld, MMO, casino and virtual reality games. The 2021 Croner Software Games Survey – North America Results provides data for total rewards of 61 companies in the U.S. for 505 positions and 22 companies in Canada for 105 positions.
World-Class Participants
For 30 years, this Survey has provided market data for compensation and benefits offered at companies that publish and/or develop software for entertainment in North America. Its scope and content have evolved each year to reflect current conditions within the industry, including the addition of the International Survey for companies based inside and outside the U.S.
Major industry players and emerging companies rely upon the Survey results to make informed decisions about how to pay video gaming jobs by using salary differentials to benchmark compensation, establish job architecture, set rational pay levels and pay structures and make informed decisions about bonus plans, equity plans and benefits.

Valuable Data for Critical Decisions
Participant companies use our Survey results to understand salary differentials, benchmark sector-specific compensation, establish rational pay levels and pay structures and make well-informed decisions about their competitive bonus plans and equity plans.
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Significant Features
Of the Croner Software Games Survey – North America

Key Dates & Survey Pricing
2022 Survey Schedule
Survey Planning Meeting: April 28, 2022
Questionnaire Distribution: Late July
Data Effective Date: July 1
Completion Deadline: August 19
Full Report of Results Published: Late November or Early December
Report of Results Webinar: Mid December
Salary Budgets Survey Supplement: August Questionnaire Distribution, Results Published in September

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