Senior Game Designer Salary in Washington, DC

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How much does a Senior Game Designer make in Washington, DC? The average Senior Game Designer salary in Washington, DC is $91,140 as of March 26, 2024, but the salary range typically falls between $82,547 and $102,335. Salary ranges can vary widely depending on many important factors, including education, certifications, additional skills, the number of years you have spent in your profession. With more online, real-time compensation data than any other website, Salary.com helps you determine your exact pay target.

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Senior Technical Game Designer

Searchability® - San Francisco , CA

Technical Game Designer * Mobile Game Design / Turn-based Combat * Full time * Remote, US * To find out more information, call James on: 512 838 3297 james.roberts@searchability.com WHO ARE WE? We're ...

LinkedIn - 3 days ago

Sr. Game Level Designer

Unreal Gigs - Santa Monica , CA

As a Game Level Designer, you will be responsible for creating engaging and visually appealing levels for our gaming and film projects. Your role involves conceptualizing, designing, and building ...

ZipRecruiter ATS Jobs for ZipSearch/ZipAlerts - 80 days ago

Senior Level Designer (Open World Game, UE5)

Yotta Games - El Segundo , CA

Senior Level Designer Yotta Games - Why Join Us Yotta's huge fanbase has helped turn us into a globally ranked game developer with offices worldwide. Despite our success, at heart we are still ...

LinkedIn - 53 days ago

Lead UI Designer

Player First Games - Los Angeles , CA

UX/UI Designer | Mid/Senior Full-time • Project MultiVersus Player First Games builds best-in-class online game experiences for a passionate playerbase. Each member joining our team significantly ...

ZipRecruiter ATS Jobs for ZipSearch/ZipAlerts - 7 days ago

Senior Technical Sound Designer

DFAD - Los Angeles , CA

As a Senior Technical Sound Designer at DFAD you will be architecting high-quality, emotionally ... With 10+ years of experience in game development and mastery of Wwise, Unity, UE5 (MetaSound ...

LinkedIn - 6 days ago

Senior Gameplay Engineer - Remote Worldwide

Nxt Level - Salt Lake City , UT

In this role, the Senior Gameplay Engineer will be deeply involved in collaborating with Designers ... Key Requirements: * A minimum of five years' experience in game development. * A history of ...

LinkedIn - 18 days ago

What does a Senior Game Designer do?

Common responsibilities of a Senior Game Designer

Contribute as necessary to other game design tasks, including documentation, peer review, concept ideation, and feature testing and evaluation.

September 30, 2022

Understand the high level vision of the game and be able to translate the vision into gameplay systems designed that can be used by everyone to build all of the experiences in the game.

December 03, 2022

Designing all facets of the user interface from concept to completion including mockups, wireframes, flow charts, icons, and animation mockups.

March 11, 2023

Works as part of the Design Group, and takes responsibility for large features, systems, and content.

March 24, 2023

Drive the day-to-day creative process and empower everyone to contribute to it.

April 11, 2023

Create and maintain detailed user-interface specifications, design patterns, libraries and design systems.

May 07, 2023

Collaborate with the product management team to translate and develop high quality written product and software requirements for user-facing features.

May 08, 2023

Build levels in 3D using design systems and incorporating game play demands into the design.

May 16, 2023

Communicate progress with the Directors well and frequently.

May 18, 2023

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Average Salary Range for Senior Game Designer in Washington, DC

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82547

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91140

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85008

107283

94801

What is the average salary for Senior Game Designer in 2024?

These charts show the average base salary (core compensation), as well as the average total cash compensation for the job of Senior Game Designer in Washington, DC. The base salary for Senior Game Designer ranges from $82,547 to $102,335 with the average base salary of $91,140. The total cash compensation, which includes base, and annual incentives, can vary anywhere from $85,008 to $107,283 with the average total cash compensation of $94,801.

View Average Salary for Senior Game Designer as table

	Average Salary	Average Salary Range
Base Salary	$91,140	$82,547 - $102,335
Bonus	$3,660	$2,462 - $4,949
Total Pay	$94,801	$85,008 - $107,283

* Base Salary represents gross income before taxes and deductions. It does not include additional pay such as benefits, bonuses, profit sharing or commissions.

* Total Pay combines base salary, bonuses, profit sharing, tips, commissions, overtime pay and other forms of cash earnings, as applicable for this job.

Senior Game Designer Salary Near Washington, DC

CITY, STATE	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE	COMPARE TO Washington, DC
CITY, STATE Arlington, VA	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE $82,562 - $102,353	COMPARE TO Washington, DC
CITY, STATE Alexandria, VA	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE $82,562 - $102,353	COMPARE TO Washington, DC
CITY, STATE Annandale, VA	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE $82,562 - $102,353	COMPARE TO Washington, DC
CITY, STATE Bowie, MD	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE $82,388 - $102,138	COMPARE TO Washington, DC
CITY, STATE Bethesda, MD	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE $82,562 - $102,353	COMPARE TO Washington, DC
CITY, STATE Silver Spring, MD	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE $82,562 - $102,353	COMPARE TO Washington, DC

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About Washington, District of Columbia

Washington, D.C. is located in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. East Coast. Due to the District of Columbia retrocession, the city has a total area of 68.34 square miles (177.0 km2), of which 61.05 square miles (158.1 km2) is land and 7.29 square miles (18.9 km2) (10.67%) is water. The District is bordered by Montgomery County, Maryland to the northwest; Prince George's County, Maryland to the east; Arlington County, Virginia to the south; and Alexandria, Virginia to the west. The south bank of the Potomac River forms the District's border with Virginia and has two major tributaries: the An...

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