The recently published results of the 2020 Croner Animation and Visual Effects Survey— providing third party market data for jobs that produce animation and visual effects — shows these noteworthy trends in compensation over the past year: Compensation for positions in the animation and visual effects industry grew steadily in 2019 across all compensation elements […]

The position grids for the 2020 Croner Software Games Survey will cover seven new job families this year.  These additions result from discussions with participant companies at the annual Survey Planning Meeting, attended by human resources and compensation professionals from companies developing and/or publishing games in all platform types including mobile, social, console, PC, handheld, […]

The 2020 Croner Software Games Survey-International will launch on Thursday, June 4, 2020, when industry professionals gather virtually to plan for this year’s software games compensation survey for companies with employees in the U.K and Europe.  Human resources and compensation professionals will represent developers and/or publishers in all gaming platforms:  mobile, social, console, PC, handheld, […]

The 2020 Croner Software Games Survey will be launched on Wednesday, May 11, 2020, when industry professionals gather virtually to plan for the content to be covered in this year’s compensation survey of the industry.  The annual Survey planning meeting is for human resources and compensation professionals from companies developing and/or publishing games in all […]

The 2020 Croner Entertainment Survey will be launched on Wednesday, April 29, 2020 when participating companies gather virtually to plan the content for this year’s Survey.  This annual Survey planning meeting, conducted by The Croner Company, is attended by compensation and HR executives from large film studios, small film studios, music producer and distributors and […]

The 2020 Croner Local Media Survey will launch on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 for companies that broadcast content and sell advertising for local television and radio stations.  The Survey reports competitive pay rates for local advertising, programming and operations positions at local stations. Human Resources executives from the Survey participant companies will gather virtually, to […]

Industry Responds to Competition with Pay Raises and Amenity Investments Reprinted from the HR Pulse – C2HR The Official Newsletter for Members of Content & Connectivity Human Resources Jan/Feb 2020 https://c2hr.org/newsletter/feb2020-compensation-surges-for-content-and-customer-care-jobs.html Employees working in content development and customer support earned big pay increases this year — as much as four times the national average. Data from […]

As global consumers show a growing appetite for engaging, high-definition visual experience and moviegoers demand high-quality production, animation and visual effects jobs are at the forefront of today’s entertainment industry.  Animators and visual effects artists are producing content consumed not only in theaters and on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, but also on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. […]

The 24th Croner Digital Content and Technology Survey will be launched on Thursday, January 23, 2020, when long-time and new survey participant companies gather to plan for this year’s Survey content at Electronic Arts in Redwood City, California.  This annual Survey planning meeting conducted with compensation and human resources executives ensures that the Survey remains […]

The recently published 2019 Croner Software Games Survey found that among the U.S. and Canadian software gaming companies surveyed, participants experienced steady compensation growth at all organization levels.  The growth in compensation was driven primarily by increases in annual incentive awards. In the U.S., jobs in Marketing and G&A experienced the greatest movement in base […]