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Game developers break silence around salaries
Illustration: Annelise Capossela/Axios
Developers are sharing their salaries on Twitter under the hashtag #GameDevPaidMe to encourage pay transparency in their industry.
The big picture: The hashtag started circulating last year, but has returned periodically as developers fight for better working conditions. Salary sharing is a way to equalize the field. By removing the secrecy, as well as the stigma, around discussing pay, workers have more power to advocate for themselves when negotiating salaries and raises.
In 2020, Blizzard employees shared their salaries anonymously via a spreadsheet to compare compensation.
The pay gap between people at the top, and workers on the ground is measurable in hundreds of thousands of dollars even when those CEOs take pay cuts.
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IMAGE: Brenda Brand, an associate professor of science education in the Virginia Tech School of Education, conducts a demonstration during a STEM fair for graduate students. Photo by Andrew Adkins for. view more
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A National Science Foundation report in 2015 found that only 40 percent of African Americans pursuing doctorates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) were completing their degrees. Improving diversity within higher education is essential to the recruitment and education of a vibrant, inclusive STEM workforce, said Brenda Brand, an associate professor of science education in the Virginia Tech School of Education. Yet to increase the numbers of historically underrepresented faculty in STEM, we must focus not just on recruitment but on retention as well.