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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spacecrime.com" data-source="post: 1040269" data-attributes="member: 753">[hysterical laughter]Paychecks vary widely, not least because a fair number of game stores are spare-time hobby businesses.  Among the people trying to make a living, I've heard salaries ranging from "I'm still putting money into the business and I hope it turns around soon" to a very few people in the low to mid 30s. I haven't heard any figure above $35K a year, but there's some people I don't know the salaries of who could be making more. Most of the people I've talked to make considerably less than $20K per year. As for me, there have been years I've qualified for food stamps. We're doing better than that this year, but on an hour for hour basis I could make more money flipping burgers at McDonalds. Some of this is due to my significant limitations as a businessman, but the simple fact is that you're trying to sell obscure products to small audiences, and making big bucks tends to be a bit difficult. I don't recommend this profession to anybody who doesn't have a burning desire to sell games (or in my case, books and games). If you've got the skills to do it right, then you can make twice as much money with half the effort in almost any other retail management job. If you've got the capital to open a store, you can use that capital to make more money doing almost anything else. It'll be interesting to see what the other replies to this are...</blockquote>