[fuy]

And also these old C hands don't seem to get paid (significantly) more than a regular web-dev who doesn't care about hardware, memory, performance etc. Go figure.

[jackcosgrove]

Pay is determined by the supply and demand for labor, which encompass many factors beyond the difficulty of the work.

Being a game developer is harder than being an enterprise web services developer. Who gets paid more, especially per hour?

[bigfishrunning]

They do where I'm from, and spend most of their time cleaning up the messes that the regular web-devs create...