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Former CDProjekt employee tweets her wage.

Chromie

Chromie

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Dec 4, 2017
5,271
Washington
This is rough. Can't even afford to a place because her wage was so low. This is also from several years ago. Tried search but couldn't find anything.








EDIT: Here's the reddit link referred to in the tweet and a quote from jaffaro on the minimum wage.

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r/Games - Former CDPR Witcher 3 dev: "So can I now share that i earned $430 monthly for full time work on facial animations on That Great Game 3 in That Great Company That Totally Treats Their Passionately Crunching Employees Fairly? Too soon?"

7,439 votes and 2,020 comments so far on Reddit
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jaffaro said:
Just for context, the minimum wage in Poland in 2014 was about 300$.

Edit. wrong exchange rate. It was less than 400$.
I'm speaking about net salary, I assume she does too, otherwise she would earn even less that that. That depends on the type of employment you signed.
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TheKeyPit said:
Not defending CDProjekt here, but wages in general are absolute shit in that country. It is no surprise that a lot of young people are looking for work outside Poland.
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Razmos

Razmos

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Oct 28, 2017
15,890
Holy shit, could this company look any worse?
 

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Oct 27, 2017
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I mean, the upper management at this company are scum. There's not even a debate at this point.
 
Heynongman!

Heynongman!

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Oct 25, 2017
8,944
ready for the greatest hits of "Why didn't she quit and find another job?" and "She has Witcher 3 on her resume now, she should be grateful"

Absolutely fucking disgusting company CDPR is slowly unraveling to be. Don't give them your money. If you absolutely must play CP - buy it used.
 
Abominuz

Abominuz

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Oct 29, 2017
2,553
Netherlands
Always praise for being consumer friendly over the back of their own workers sjeez.

They make it harder and harder for me justifying to buy this game. Its like the game i always dreamt of being a child. But crunch, transphobia, treating your workers like shit. Nah man, this is shit.
 
Ushay

Ushay

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Oct 27, 2017
8,370
$430, Holy shit....that is dire.
So some context would be great, was she part time?
 
Martin

Martin

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Oct 25, 2017
2,432
Wtf a friend in a small polish village makes way more than this ...
 
JuniperAndSage

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Dec 27, 2019
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The company's owner is worth about a billion dollars. The company has about half a billion a year in revenue. All that money should be in the hands of the workers that produced these games.
 
jaffaro

jaffaro

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Mar 16, 2018
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Just for context, the minimum wage in Poland in 2014 was about 300$.

Edit. wrong exchange rate. It was less than 400$.
I'm speaking about net salary, I assume she does too, otherwise she would earn even less that that. That depends on the type of employment you signed.
 
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rras1994

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Nov 4, 2017
5,749
I've said they were badly paid even by Polish standards before on here cus I've seen it before on Twitter from different devs and had so many posters come and tell me how wrong I was and they get paid a great wage compared to others in Poland 🙄
 
chefbags

chefbags

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Oct 25, 2017
9,312
Wtf that's lower than I get from unemployment every two weeks...

Damn does CDPR fucking suuuuuck
 
Astrates

Astrates

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Sep 13, 2020
382
Man that's rough for the developers. For a company making a point of being consumer friendly, I honestly hoped they'd treat their staff better than this.
 
RROCKMAN

RROCKMAN

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Oct 25, 2017
10,861
Cd projekt it completely rubbish

Cyberpunk was the first and will be the last game that I will ever buy with them attached
 
Quirah

Quirah

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Oct 26, 2017
25
Welcome to economy and exchange difference I guess?
Poland = PLN, it's not same compare it with USD wages.

I don't live in Poland and I don't know about their minimum wage tho.
 
THANKS

THANKS

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Oct 22, 2018
1,375
In Warsaw the average monthly salary is around 5000PLN which is $1200 for reference. So this is a lot lower than the average salary - it's basically minimum wage.
 
MysteryM

MysteryM

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Oct 28, 2017
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The divide between the people that actually do the work and the small percentage that earn huge amounts from it

it really sad to see exploitation, and I'm glad I choose many years ago to not work in gaming.
 
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