A recent Wall Street Journal article states that top full-time Flash engineers can command more than $150,000 a year in salary. The article cites the rise in online, social gaming as one reason for the high demand/high salaries. The article also mentions a developer that went freelance and since then has increased his salary 150% over three years ago.
Another avenue you can take is going into business for yourself like Yoshikazu Tanaka, who is now Asia’s youngest self-made billionaire. Yoshikazu owns a business delivering (you guessed it) Flash mobile games among other things. I guess you can see how companies are able to pay Flash developers a pretty good salary.
The WSJ also says, “It is particularly difficult to find Flash engineers who have both an artistic and computer-science background.” So if you’re a designer, consider honing those ActionScript chops. And if you’re a developer then join me at the Heartland Developers Conference where I will be talking about design fundamentals for developers. Slides to be posted later, but you should just really come to the conference.
