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How Much Could Individuals Truly Earn As Xbox Video Game Testers
Many gamers are interested about the possibility of becoming a xbox game tester. They think it would be amazing to test new video games on their xbox 360's for oodles & oodles of cash. However, is it as cool as they think? Generally speaking, yes -- paid video game testing is really cool and it pays pretty well. How well does it truly pay? Take a look below and find out.
Let's face the reality, you would not start off at the top when you initially begin testing video games. So do not 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 work is completed, but you will not be able to buy that 10-bedroom mansion just yet.
The Real Annual Figures: A new video game tester can expect to earn anywhere from $18,000 per year to $24,000 a year. With regular testing jobs and hard work, he can increase that amount to sixty thousand dollars per year and beyond. Of course, this all depends greatly on whether or not he sticks with the video game testing and continues to apply for jobs with developers of games. If he doesn't, well, he would not make squat.
The downside to the yearly amount given above is that nearly all testers don't work on a contractual pay -- they work on a job-by-job basis. This means as soon as they finish a game testing task, they get paid and move onto another one; like a freelancer. Thus, let us break the earnings of a game tester into a hourly/weekly number for a better look-see into what these game testers really make.
Figures Per Hour and Per Week: New testers can make ten dollars to twelve dollars per hour, that depends on the business that hired them. If the tester has a lot more experience, he/she could get a substantial increase in earnings to sixteen dollars to even eighteen dollars per hour. If the xbox video game tester is at the top of his/her game, she/he may get paid as much as $30 or even more an hour.
Let's take those numbers and perform some quick calculations with the average minimum of weekly work (thirty five to forty hours). Quick Note: These estimations are assuming the tester would get a new testing task on a weekly basis; which is, sadly, not generally the situation for most.
New Testers
Ten dollars X forty hours is four hundred dollars.
$400 x 52 weeks in one year is $20,800.
Mid-Level Testers
Seventeen dollars X forty hours is six hundred eighty dollars
$680 x 52 weeks is thirty five thousand three hundred sixty dollars
Expert Testers
Twenty five dollars X forty hours is $1000
One thousand dollars X fifty two weeks is $52,000
Ultimate Video Game Testers
$40 x 40 hours is one thousand six hundred dollars
One thousand six hundred dollars X fifty two weeks is $83,200
Do you see the possibility here? If you build you're way up the ladder and be a highly experienced, well-known tester of xbox games, you could earn almost $100,000 per year!
The best part regarding the whole per job basis thing is that you can truly double your hourly wages by just doing your task more quickly (IMPORTANT: You should not sacrifice the quality of work for quickness!). If you could cut what is meant to be a 1-week game testing job (usually 40 hours) into a half-week testing job (twenty hours), you will have doubled your hourly salary for that particular job!
So, what do you really think? Is this pay good enough for you to get involved with professional game testing? Well, you had better make up your mind really fast -- because many others have already made their choice and they are currently working to become "ultimate" xbox video game testers! Remember, if you do not act, somebody else would!
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