Salary data for country: Japan
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Information Technology

Game developer

Gross salary in Japan is
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80% of people earn:
350K - 884K JPY
10% earn less lthan 350K JPY
10% earns more than 884K JPY

Salaries in the survey are expressed in gross.

Based on the Paylab.com salary survey, 80% of people on the Game developer position in the Japan earn between 349,546 JPY and 884,239 JPY monthly gross.

10% of employees earn less than 349,546 JPY and 10% of people earn more than 884,239 JPY.

The survey is based on data from employees, cleaned of extreme and duplicate values.

Description of job position

  • Creating games according to game design documents
  • Programming of game mechanisms
  • Creating extensions in specialized platforms and tools for the needs of game designers
  • Working closely with other team members during game development, sharing ideas and improving games, setting priorities and development deadlines
  • Participating in backend game creation

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Position Game developer - Information Technology in the labour market

In the salary ranking,
the job position takes

162. place

Women representation in position

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Average age of respondent by position

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813. place

Nursery School Teacher Assistant

Education, Science & Research

Salary group 1

124,437 - 313,431 JPY

163. place

Medical/Pharmaceutical Sales Representative

Medicine & Social Care

Salary group 2

375,591 - 849,250 JPY

162. place

Game developer

Information Technology

Salary group 2

349,546 - 884,239 JPY

161. place

R programmer

Information Technology

Salary group 2

379,361 - 849,385 JPY

1. place

Chief Executive Officer

Top Management

Salary group 3

576,627 - 2,596,549 JPY

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