Forge of Empires is a 10-year-old game that is one of InnoGames' biggest hits.
Forge of Empires is a 10-year-old game that is one of InnoGames' biggest hits.
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InnoGames shares salary for game workers in bid for transparency

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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InnoGames announced it is ending guesswork about salaries for most of its workers in the German game business in a bid to be more transparent.

The Hamburg, Germany-based company said it is the first German gaming company to openly publish its salary bands, which reflect the target pay for people with varying amounts of work experience can get. The salary bands cover approximately 80% of the company’s employees and provide information on minimum and maximum earnings for various career levels across a total of nine career models.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.