Estimate Of The Income Of An Xbox Game Tester

Lots of gamers are interested about the possibility of becoming a xbox game tester. They think it will be amazing to test new games on their xbox 360's for a lot of of cash. Is it as cool as they believe it will be? Generally speaking, yes -- paid video game testing is very cool and it pays quite well. How well does it truly pay? Take a look below and find out.

Let's face the facts, you will not start off at the top when you initially start testing video games. So don't expect to live like a fat cat when you land those first two to three xbox game tester jobs. They'll be nice checks to cash when the job is completed, but you will not be able to purchase that 10-bedroom mansion just yet.

The Real Yearly Figures: A new video game tester can expect to earn anywhere from $18,000 a year to $24,000 a year. With regular testing jobs and hard work, he could increase that figure to $60,000 a year and beyond. Of course, this all depends heavily on whether or not he sticks with the video game testing and continues to apply for jobs with video game developers. If he doesn't, well, he won't make squat.

The downside to the yearly figures given above is that the majority of testers don't work on a contractual pay -- they work on a per job basis. This means once they finish a game testing task, they get paid and move onto the next one; like a freelancer. Having said that, let us break the salary of a game tester into a hourly/weekly figure for a better look-see into what these game testers truly make.

Figures Per Hour and Per Week: New testers tend to make $10 to $12 an hour, that depends on the company hiring them. If the tester has a lot more experience, she/he may get a substantial increase in earnings to $16 or even $18 per hour. If the xbox video game tester is at the top of his/her game, she/he can get paid up to $30 or even more per hour.

Let's take those figure and carry out some quick calculations with the standard minimum of work on a weekly basis (35-40 hours). Quick Note: These estimations are assuming the tester will get a new testing task on a weekly basis; that is, unfortunately, not usually the situation for most.

New Testers

$10 x 40 hours is four hundred dollars.

$400 x 52 weeks in one year is twenty thousand eight hundred dollars.

Mid-Level Testers

Seventeen dollars X forty hours is $680

$680 x 52 weeks is $35,360

Expert Testers

Twenty five dollars X forty hours is one thousand dollars

$1000 x 52 weeks is $52,000

Ultimate Tester

$40 x 40 hours is $1600

One thousand six hundred dollars X fifty two weeks is $83,200

Do you actually see the potential here? If you build you're way up the ladder and be a well-known, highly experienced tester of xbox games, you can make nearly $100,000 per year!

The best part about the whole per job basis thing is that you can really double your hourly salary by just doing your job more quickly (IMPORTANT: You should not sacrifice quality for quickness!). If you can cut what is meant to be a 1-week game testing job (normally forty hours) into a half-week testing job (20 hours), you will have doubled your hourly salary for that job!

So, what do you think? Is this pay good enough for you to get involved with professional game testing? Well, you had better decide quickly -- as many others have already made their decision and they are presently working to become "ultimate" xbox video game testers! Keep in mind that, if you don't act, somebody else will!

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