Call for participants – the 2013/14 TIGA & Aon Hewitt Salary Survey

Dear members,

We would like to invite you to take part in the 2013/14 TIGA & Aon Hewitt Salary Survey.

The survey, now in its fifth year, is the only comprehensive salary survey carried out annually for the UK games software development industry, with input from developers (both independent and publisher owned), and covering over 14% of the software developer UK workforce. And the more of you that take part – the better it gets.

This years’ survey participants include world-class studios and publishers such as CCP, EA, Eutechnyx, Microsoft (Lionhead and Rare) and Ubisoft – here’s your opportunity to access the same valuable intelligence they benefit from.

It offers insight into current pay levels from graduates up to senior managers, typical organisational structures and evolving workforce demographics, and participants benefit from receiving a major and extremely in-depth report from an established, comprehensive and now well trusted source of market data.

This survey provides an invaluable and detailed picture of the games software industry in terms of pay, benefits and employee demographics – vital for benchmarking remuneration in your own business.

For this year, TIGA members are offered the following discounted rates for participation. We believe, for example, £525 for the level of analysis and data quality contained in the final report to be extremely good value for our smaller members.

If you would like to take part, or have any further questions at all, please contact Steve Munday, Senior Reward Consultant for Aon Hewitt via steve.munday@aonhewitt.com or 020 7301 4262. Please note the deadline for applications is 5pm on Friday October 8th, 2013.

For your information, top line findings from the 2012/13 survey included:

• A median pay increase of 3.0% – which is on a par with general industry in the UK
• Less than one in 10 employees in the sector had a pay freeze in 2012, compared to one in five in 2011
• An increasing number of women joining what has been regarded as a male dominated sector
• Median base salaries of male and female employees at equivalent levels, are only very marginally different (less than 0.5%)
• Target bonuses as a percentage of salary show no difference between genders
• Median graduate base salaries are up 7.4% on 2011, almost double the rate between 2010 and 2011
• Voluntary employee turnover in 2012 was down on 2011 at 13.5%, while attrition was up on 2011 at around 7.2%
• Over 50% of the survey population has less than five years of service
• 90% of participating organisations offer employees a Defined Contribution pension
• All participants offered some form of private medical insurance