Myrdin Potter
Hero
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 (they run around $2K plus utilities and such) even in a pretty pricey area, but really no margin of safety.
So I would say that somewhere between $50K and $75K is an “ok” income in the USA. Especially if you can work from home.
That will not get you rich except over time via compound interest and you will have to be reasonably frugal. In smaller and less expensive places, they actually is pretty decent and you will save a lot more (rents go to $1K pretty quickly outside of expensive areas).
Ignoring that someone in the Philippines can compete with you if work from home is fine, what do people think is a decent range? (This is at or below the current Big 4 entry level in my profession, but this is a different skill set).
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 (they run around $2K plus utilities and such) even in a pretty pricey area, but really no margin of safety.
So I would say that somewhere between $50K and $75K is an “ok” income in the USA. Especially if you can work from home.
That will not get you rich except over time via compound interest and you will have to be reasonably frugal. In smaller and less expensive places, they actually is pretty decent and you will save a lot more (rents go to $1K pretty quickly outside of expensive areas).
Ignoring that someone in the Philippines can compete with you if work from home is fine, what do people think is a decent range? (This is at or below the current Big 4 entry level in my profession, but this is a different skill set).