&quot;And no one started at $40k. The general consensus was that maybe I hadn’t gone to college, but I had proven myself in the past 8 months. I deserved the same starting salary as everyone else, which was about $75,000 &quot;<p>Holy fuck. I work as a full time C++ developer with a couple years of experience now and I make $30k&#x2F;year. And I have a first class Masters Degree in compute science. Games industry man.