You may wonder, how much money could someone make from sitting around playing video games all day? Well the answer is it can be quite a lot or not much at all.
Not very specific I know but let me explain. You’re first beginning your career you will probably be making around a measly 10 dollars an hour. Not much I know but as with all jobs patience and experience pay off and it doesn’t take much time at all to get up to 20-30 dollars an hour.
A 20 to 30 dollar and hour paying job again if this doesn’t sound like a big number let me help with the math. You work 8 hours a day, at say 25 dollars, that’s 200 dollars a day and you work 5 days a week. That is a thousand dollars a week to work from home whenever you want doing nothing but playing games that are months from release.
Now before you go thinking this is the land of milk and honey you have to realize that you do still have to work it is not just a matter of playing a game getting bored with it and moving on, you actually have to properly test the, but even then you are still playing games which let me assure you is more exciting than going into an office at the crack of dawn and filling out excel and word documents all day.
If you are interested in finding out more about the financial sides of professional video game testing than I recommend you try ‘Game Tester Guide’ not to be confused with ‘Game Testing Ground’. ‘Game Tester Guide’ offer lots of really helpful information when it comes to picking through good and bad jobs and finding out all the financial facts about professional game testing.