Industry Data: Game Music and Sound Design Survey

GameSoundCon Game Audio Industry Survey 2025 is open

For the past 12 years, we have conducted a regular survey tracking game audio industry trends, salaries, tools/tech, education as well as other data. If you work in game audio, please take 5-7 minutes to fill out the survey. The survey is anonymous, using Survey Monkey's "Anonymous Survey" feature.

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The survey is open through May 17, 2025.
Results will be posed over the summer

You can view the 2023 survey here

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About the Game Audio Industry Survey

In 2013, the game development web site, Gamasutra, published the results of their annual game developer salary survey. That year, the results were somewhat puzzling, with “audio” salaries coming in higher than every other discipline except “business and management.”

Part of the reason for this unexpected result is that audio, more than most other game disciplines, has a very high percentage of non-salaried freelancers, which were unaccounted for in the Gamautra survey. Gamasutra also commented on the “smaller pool of respondents,” (Only 33 audio professionals completed the survey) causing the results to have limited reliability.

With that in mind, in 2014 we set out to create a survey to more accurately capture the issues of contracts, terms and compensation in game audio.

Our goals were to have a survey that:

• Was designed specifically for the game audio community

• Reflected the freelancer segment of our industry

• Had a much higher response than the gamasutra study

• Covered important business and production issues unique to game music and sound

The result was the GameSoundCon Game Audio Industry Survey which has become the leading survey in the industry since launching in 2014.