According to an MCV survey, women in the UK's games industry earn £2,000 more than men employed in the retail, publishing, services, development, games media and PR. The results come from a pool of 528 games industry professionals, but are not broken down to indicate which areas are dominated by females, who may hold positions in higher-paid sectors like PR and Marketing. Their research suggests that female industry staff are in publishing, marketing, PR,retail and distribution. Only 6.9% of female respondents were in development. Only 11% of the respondents were women.
These salary results are in conflict with the results of a survey conducted by ELSPA in 2004 (.pdf), suggesting that there has been a change in attitudes, or the methodologies were different.
Full details of the survey, including the methodology and detailed analyses, are in this week's MCV.
