Think being a game programmer in japan will bring you the big bucks? Think again;

According to anonymous responders on Japanese super-forum 2ch (as translated by CNNGo), salaries for game programmers are far below what you’d expect for a tech job in one of the most expensive countries in the world to live in.

“¥130,000 [$1,457] for 256 hours of work a month,” one poster reports. “¥160,000 [$1,793] and I am ready to die,” another laments. “I can’t even afford the ‘recruit suit’ I’ll need for interviewing for another job.” How do you live in Tokyo on that kind of scratch? “¥180,000 [$2,017] a month, no bonus, and only thanks to the company dorm can I afford to live in Tokyo,” one responder explains.

Don’t worry though there still some high paying jobs in tokyo;

“I’m 27, live in Tokyo, working for a major company, and make ¥680,000 [$7,622] a month, with a separate yearly bonus,” one anonymous poster boasts. “But it isn’t in the game industry. Ha!”

If your going to be game programmer your doing it for the love of the job not the money, at least in Japan

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