[bgirard]

Revenue per corporate employee are both ~1.5m/corp employee. I think it really comes down to how the company is managed and culture.

[socalgal2]

Nintendo Japan pays its engineers ~$62k a year

https://www.portal.e2r.jp/fixurl/nintendo_career_job/id/4/2?...

Amazon starts at 3x that and goes up

https://www.levels.fyi/companies/amazon/salaries

[virtue3]

Some additional context to explain the numbers:

Game industry in general pays like shit - japanese software engineering pays even worse, so double negative modifiers on salaries in this comparison.

source: worked in games, worked at japanese tech company with us division.

[no_wizard]

You need to compare the US division to get a more accurate comparison. Nintendo US pays quite well.