| Professionally playing video games for money is | | | | The amount of money you will make as a beta |
| undoubtedly way better than most of the other | | | | game tester relates directly with the video game |
| jobs that are out there. On the other hand | | | | company you are employed with, not to mention |
| though, playing video games for cash, like any | | | | the overall amount of work you can "successfully" |
| other type of employment, does come with a | | | | take on. |
| few drawbacks. As you can probably guess, the | | | | What You Will Be Paid To Do as a Video Game |
| drawbacks of game testing are not too bad to | | | | Tester |
| deal with, but they do in fact exist and each & | | | | Contrary to what you may think, you won't |
| every tester must accept and deal with them. | | | | simply be having fun and playing video games |
| Earnings Of A Video Game Tester | | | | throughout the entire day. In truth, playing video |
| The earnings of a paid beta game tester are not | | | | games and testing video games are two |
| set in stone, so you can not expect to be told | | | | COMPLETELY different things. Although many |
| exactly what you'll earn once you finally get | | | | professional testers do have fun testing video |
| started. Wages vary from company to company, | | | | games, the fun isn't quite as "awesome" as they |
| so it's somewhat difficult to give an exact figure | | | | first thought it would be. Why is this? Because |
| on how much a video game beta tester can or | | | | professional game testing, like any other type of |
| will be paid. In light of that fact, don't | | | | job, is NOT all fun and games -- there is actual |
| wholeheartedly trust ads that say game testers | | | | work involved. |
| are paid $100+ per hour. Even though it's not | | | | Instead of simply being paid to judge the overall |
| technically a lie, it's not really the truth either -- | | | | amount of enjoyment of a video game, testers |
| Game testers can earn a very good living, just | | | | are paid to locate what most programmers can't, |
| not THAT good of a living. | | | | which is bugs and glitches. Highly-paid gaming |
| With $120/hour wages, a professional game | | | | programmers can easily locate & identify the |
| tester would make $600 per day just working a | | | | larger bugs & glitches; but when it comes time to |
| minuscule 5 hours. To be honest, you'd have a | | | | locate the smaller, less noticeable ones, |
| tough time finding professional game testers that | | | | developers solely rely on professional game |
| get paid even half that amount for a days work. | | | | testers to do the job quickly and effectively. |
| Ball-Park Figures: Yearly earnings of a video game | | | | Having said all that, as a professional beta game |
| tester can range from a low $18,000 to an | | | | tester it's YOUR JOB to play the assigned video |
| unbelieveable $80,000 or more. Monthly earnings | | | | game as many times as it takes so that you can |
| can range from $1000 to a high $8500. Weekly | | | | find and properly document all possible in-game |
| wages can be anywhere from $350 to a sizeable | | | | bugs & glitches! |
| $2000. | | | | |