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Changing Salary Adjustment Budgets Due to Inflation
The Croner Company has conducted the preeminent compensation survey for the U.S. entertainment industry since 2013. The Croner Entertainment Survey – International is launching in 2022 in response to demand from U.S. clients with global locations for compensation data on international entertainment positions. [...]
Trends in Pay for Video Gaming Jobs in the U.K.
The Croner Company has conducted the preeminent compensation survey for the U.S. entertainment industry since 2013. The Croner Entertainment Survey – International is launching in 2022 in response to demand from U.S. clients with global locations for compensation data on international entertainment positions. [...]
C2HR Details Pay Increases, Challenges During COVID-19
Those who work for connectivity providers were more likely to see stronger compensation increases in 2021, while content developers faced more challenges, according to data from the Content & Connectivity Human Resources Association’s (C2HR) annual compensation surveys. [...]
Competing for Software Gaming Talent Was More Expensive in 2021
Are you able to compete effectively for software gaming talent? It may be time to benchmark your salaries and incentives to market data. The recently published 2021 Croner Software Games Survey – North America shows that jobs at U.S. software gaming companies experienced material compensation growth in the past year. The growth [...]
Emerging Policies for Hybrid and Permanently Remote Work
The results of a Croner Company pulse survey about remote work show a majority of participating companies will allow hybrid work schedules going forward. Hybrid work is defined as requiring some days in the office and allowing some days to be work from home. The greatest number of those companies that will allow for hybrid work expect to have [...]
Moderate Compensation Growth for Entertainment Industry
The annual Croner Entertainment Survey provides comprehensive market data about compensation for jobs and specialties in all segments of the Entertainment industry, including Film, Television, Digital Entertainment and Music production and distribution. Noteworthy insights from the recently published 2021 Croner Entertainment Survey include: Professional independent contributor positions and operating independent contributor / support positions experienced the [...]
Executives in Television and Digital Entertainment Experience Only Moderate Compensation Growth
The 2021 C2HR Content Developers Compensation Survey provides competitive compensation data for positions in companies that develop content for television and digital entertainment, as well as positions specific to television and radio broadcasting. High level trends from the 2021 results include: All organization levels experienced some year-over-year growth in compensation. Operating individual [...]
Digital Media and eCommerce Positions See Steady Growth in Pay, Support Level Positions See Largest Pay Increase
The recently published 2021 Croner Digital Content and Technology Survey provides in-depth market data on compensation for jobs specific to internet and mobile content and transactions. Noteworthy findings from the 2021 report include [...]
COVID-19 Impacted Compensation for Animation and Visual Effects Jobs
The recently published results of the 2021 Croner Animation and Visual Effects Survey shows noteworthy trends in compensation from the past year. The highlights below are extracts from Croner’s annual report of third-party market data for roles specific to producing animation and visual effects. Base salaries increased year-over-year for the majority of [...]
New Job Families Added to the 2021 Croner Software Games Survey
The position grids for the 2021 Croner Software Games Survey will cover ten new software gaming job families this year. These additions result from discussions with survey participant companies at the annual Survey Planning Meeting. The meeting was attended by human resources and compensation professionals from companies developing and/or publishing games in [...]
Launch of the 2021 Croner Software Games Survey – International
The Croner Company’s survey of global software gaming jobs will launch on Thursday, May 20, 2021. Industry professionals will gather virtually to learn about compensation trends for video gaming jobs and to plan for this year’s survey content. The survey covers jobs in gaming companies with employees in the U.K [...]
25 Years Online and Still Evolving
We are proud to be celebrating our 25th year of providing trusted market data on pay for jobs specific to online and mobile talent. Yes, twenty-five years ago there were “online” jobs! And Croner was providing compensation data for online positions back then. The 2021 Croner Digital Content and Technology Compensation Survey cycle kicked off in January at the annual Survey Planning Meeting [...]