Game Audio Survey 2025 | gamesoundcon

GameSoundCon Game Audio Industry Survey 2025

Our survey ran from May 1 to June 15, 2025 and was promoted heavily via social media and other game or music industry web sites. We received 654 usable responses from all around the world. Monetary values have been converted to USD.

New questions in 2025:

Impact of Industry Layoffs
Use of Artificial Intelligence in Game Audio
Trends and comparisons analyses

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Among the findings:

There is a measurable trend towards audio outsourcing. A game audio employee is 3x more likely to work for an audio outsourcing company than they were 10 years ago
Game Audio Salaries are up approximately 20% from the 2023 survey in both the North America and Europe
Layoffs affects 16% of salaried employees; approximately half found another job in game audio
The use of AI in game audio is relatively rare; the most common uses are for dialogue generation and coding/scripting.

About the Game Audio Industry Survey

In 2014, we created The Game Audio Industry Survey as a resource for people working in game music or sound design.

Our goals were to have a survey that reflected the employee and freelancer segments of our industry and also covered some business issues unique to game music and sound.

Since then, the GameSoundCon Industry Survey has become the leading resource on business and production/tools aspects of working in game music and sound design.