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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 [...]
Launch of the 2021 Croner Software Games Survey – North America
The 2021 Croner Software Games Survey will be launched on Thursday, May 6, 2021. Industry professionals will gather virtually to plan for the jobs to be covered in this year’s compensation survey of the software gaming industry. The annual Survey planning meeting is for human resources and compensation professionals from [...]
Annual Planning Meeting for Compensation Survey of Entertainment Jobs
The 2021 Croner Entertainment Survey will be launched on Thursday, April 15, 2021 when participating companies gather virtually to plan the content for this year’s Survey. This annual Survey planning meeting, conducted by The Croner Company, is attended by compensation and HR executives from large film studios, small film studios, music producer [...]
Compensation for Local Media Jobs: 2021 Croner Survey Planning Meeting
The 2021 Croner Local Media Survey will launch on Thursday, March 25th. The Survey reports competitive pay rates for local advertising account executives and for television and radio programming and operations positions at local TV and radio stations. Human Resources executives from major media companies will gather virtually to plan this year’s [...]
Grantmaking Foundations Compensation Survey Annual Planning Meeting
The fifth annual planning meeting of the Croner Total Compensation Survey of Foundations will be held on Thursday, March 4, 2021. Sponsoring foundations of the Survey will meet to discuss survey content and timely issues facing human resources professionals during remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The planning meeting agenda will [...]
How to Design a Bonus Plan
Are you designing a new bonus plan for a start-up company? Or in an established company trying to determine what bonus you need to offer to compete with tech companies? Companies give out bonuses in order to motivate their staff and employees, boost morale and encourage quality performance. Rewarding employees for performance helps them see a physical indicator that directly impacts their compensation. [...]
Animation and Visual Effects Compensation Survey Annual Planning Meeting
Animation and Visual Effects jobs are at the forefront of today’s entertainment. Animators and Visual Effects teams are producing content consumed in software games and in content streaming on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. The 2021 Croner Animation and Visual Effects Survey provides up-to-date competitive compensation information about positions that [...]