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The salary difference between American and European Game Devs isn't as significant as it is for other segments of SWE.
Was this because the game dev salaries were low in US or high in Europe?
The former.
Meanwhile, a lot of the higher value work such as in Engines tends to pay pretty high - for example, Epic Games pays SWEs and PMs in the $200-400K TC range, but this is overwhelmingly in the US. Similar story with Unity despite originally being European, but shifting to the US in the 2000s.