Know Your Worth, Benchmark Your Studio & Secure Top Talent.
Salary insights from across the games industry.
Tailored to your roles, location, and hiring plans.
What it is.
Games studios are losing candidates at offer stage, or overpaying just to stay in the race.
In a fast-moving hiring market, outdated salary assumptions can cost you. At Aardvark Swift, we speak with candidates and hiring managers every single day giving us a front-row seat to how compensation expectations are shifting in real time.
Our Salary Benchmarking Service is designed to give you a clear, honest read on where your studio stands, and where it might need to adjust to compete.
Get expert insight on current pay expectations in game development, based on real-time market knowledge, not static spreadsheets based on outdated data.
We'll give you a clear view of what studios are actually paying across the UK, Europe, and North America.
Are you paying competitively? Let’s find out...
Who's it for?
Hiring managers unsure of how their offers stack up.
HR teams planning for growth.
Studios looking to retain top performers.
Anyone curious whether they’re ahead, behind, or right on the money.
What you get.
Info on current candidate expectations and market trends.
Market insight and commentary by discipline, seniority and region.
Comparisons based on studio size, location, and project type.
Common challenges studios face in salary conversations.
A light-touch comparison of your current offering vs what we're seeing daily,
Actionable recommendations for hiring and retention.
Why it works.
We don’t rely on static salary tables. Instead, we blend placement data, candidate feedback, and studio conversations to give you real-world context around compensation packages. It’s part market intel and part honest feedback loop, all tailored to your roles at your studio.
How it works.
Tell us the roles you'd like to benchmark - we'll collect some basic info from you.
Sense check - we’ll review your current offering vs similar studios, market info and industry insight.
Insight report - we'll provide you with a summary and recommendations.
Optional call - we’ll walk you through the key takeaways if you wish.
Request your salary insights.
No lengthy forms to fill in, no studio wide report to compile, just a conversation that could make all the difference.