InnoGames Has Shared Salary Transparency Report
The company published the earnings of its staff as a "matter of fairness" as well as as an effort to attract more employees.
German video game developer InnoGames revealed its new salary transparency report which covers about 80% of the company’s employees providing information on minimum and maximum earnings across various job types and positions.
InnoGames noted that it became the first gaming company in Germany that openly published its salary bands. The studio shared that it decided to share this information publicly as it believes that salary transparency "is a matter of fairness – towards your employees and your applicants."
"I hope that this will motivate other games companies to join us and help us debunk the long-standing misconception that our industry pays people poorly," Co-Founder and COO of InnoGames Michael Zillmer said.
Additionally, according to the company's director of human resources Dr. Andreas Lieb, the purpose of publicly revealing the salary transparency report was to retain and attract more workers including female candidates. as the report shows that there is no pay gap in the company.
"This is a 'win-win-win' situation. The company, our employees, and current and future applicants all stand to benefit from this disclosure," Dr. Lieb said. "We appreciate that salaries can be a very delicate topic, and we are aware that the decision to publish our bands comes with a certain level of risk, but we firmly believe this is the right move for both InnoGames and the industry."
The company did not disclose the salary bands for small departments as it could give the opportunity to easily figure out the exact pay of certain individual workers. However, the report includes salary bands for game developers, game designers, marketers, system administrators, artists, QA engineers, product managers, analysts, and community managers.
According to that data, the lowest-paid staff in InnoGames are the QA engineers, community managers, and artists, while the highest-paid jobs include system administrators, game developers, and marketers. You can learn more in the salary transparency report here.
