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Hasbro pays well at the executive level and qualified finance staff is about the same in most companies in limited geographies because we know salaries and have a well established recruiting industry that grabs underpaid people and moves them to better opportunities. So I am expecting that the...

To be fair, I said x10. Which I personally blew away but it helps to have worked in an industry that requires work experience for the certification (Chartered Accountant in my case) so they can exploit the young workers.

What income should a rpg designer make? As an income where your partner (wife/husband) is also working, $75K is enough in the USA in all but the most outrageously expensive places. As a single income, if that includes medical, you can sort of scrape by in a one bedroom apartment in a suburb...

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/ In the USA, they have treaded water, not shrank. You can make this better or worse depending on what your starting year is. I never pay attention to minimum wages or similar entry...

It is a matter of where you draw the line at what a “city” is. Even so, there are only a few areas where housing is especially expensive (I live in the greater San Francisco area which is one of them). Outside those areas, prices are way more reasonable. Obviously, a few toy and game company...

Hasbro is a bad example in that they have many products. 5e core books are also a bad example because they were created in house when the brand was not doing well at all and staff had been seriously cut. So the traditional best selling book (players handbook) was done when the brand was at a low...

Would RPG companies pay more to non-owners if they raised prices? Or would the owners keep the extra profit? Could prices actually be raised? WoTC double the price of their last AL modules. I responded by not buying any since I just run them (for free) in the local store and over $150 for the...

Audit, Law, Investment banks. MD (resident pay is peanuts). Engineering tends to start higher but not such a steep slope. Teachers usually start out super low for the first couple of years as well. The last 10 years have seen a partial correction of this with starting salaries going up. The...

That salary was my starting salary at KPMG right after graduating university. Converted from $18K at the rate that year. In Montreal, which is a major Canadian city but not Toronto which tends to have the highest salaries. In my group, I know of none that kept working that did not at least hit...

The examples of people making pretty good money from writing / game design are usually the ones that own their own company and present great products or the senior management at some of the larger publishers. Not really that much different than fiction writers and actors. A few make a lot. The...

It seems hard but I passed 10x in about 10 years. If you asked me at my first non, looking at current wages it seemed hard. I am certainly an over achiever (my salary is actually public so can be seen), but my position let’s me see salaries in general and I have worked in a variety of companies...

I work in a profession (accounting / finance) and the starting salaries today are $70 to $0K where (in USD, I started in Canada) I started at below $13K. A few years of experience gets you over $100K now. I live in Silicon Valley now which has a pretty inflated numbers, but have facilities in...

Professionals, not all workers in general.

There is no shortage of RPG products coming out these days, and more creators entering the field all the time. Sales are higher as well. That is a really poor progression, however, especially for the Seattle area. I started about at $12.5K in 1987 at my first auditor job, but my multiple to...

That is pretty much in Fantasy Grounds as well, and Roll20 and FG posts some numbers every quarter. Although there obviously is merit is arguing that Foundry has some PF2 players, there is nothing concrete to be looked at. So hard to just accept that somehow those numbers would greatly change...

The Roll20 numbers never have a great reference to trace back to. So each is an island on its own and they keep messing with the format. The claim/debate that Foundry is where all the PF2 players are is impossible to check. They do not publish any numbers. Fantasy Grounds has a fairly solid...

I bought that issue when it came out and that adventure was pretty good overall.

I think it is very lazy to write off the Orcs being evil as a default as limiting. I don’t see any limit there at all. Exploring why they are the way they are is interesting and the exploration as a topic of the nature of evil has been the fodder for literature (and religion) for thousands of...

Holmes Basic boxed set in 1981 or 1982. I think at a hobby store on Ste-Catherine’s street near the forum but could have been at the closer to my HS hobby store on Sherbrooke in NDG (Montreal locations). The set had dice.

The first episode of the anime is good if you ever wondered about the new players TPKing at the first encounter in Lost Mines of Phandelver. It is aimed at RPG players or at least viewers well versed in the tropes and it shows the effects of what are often standard storylines or backstories. It...