A game developer survey in 2021 found that 61percent of responding game developers were men, while 30 percent were women. The share of female game developers is up from 21 percent in 2017. Approximately eight percent of game developers did not identify as either men or women.

In 2023, women accounted for 46 percent of gamers in the United States, down from 48 percent of U.S. gamers identifying as women during the previous year.

What percentage gamers are female? Almost half of gaming audiences in the United States are female. This development has been ongoing for years, and whereas women are under-represented in games media and the industry, they make up a sizable chunk of gamers and spending power. There are some differences in terms of genre preferences but as a whole, female gaming audiences in the United States are just as engaged as their male counterparts.

According to a 2024 survey, men earned a considerably higher real annual salary than women across almost all job categories in the gaming industry. The pay discrepancy was the highest in marketing and acquisition, where men earned more than 70 percent more than women annually, and in lead positions such as top management, where the salary for men was almost 20,000 euros higher than for women per year. The only category where women had a higher salary than men was game design and HR/recruiting, but the difference was small.

The number of male employees in the Swedish video game development market have always been higher than the number of women working in this industry. In 2023, 2,150 Swedish game development employees were female, while the number of men was about three times higher.

In the past years, the monthly salary of game and digital media designers in Sweden fluctuated. In 2023, women in the industry earned around 42,600 Swedish kronor per month. Game and digital media designers design and develop digital and electronic media. In detail, they create special effects, animation, and other audiovisual moving images for, amongst others, video games, movies, and other videos.

In the past years, the monthly salary of game and digital media developers in Sweden generally increased for both men and women. Between 2022 and 2023, the average monthly salary for male employees in this sector increased significantly, reaching 55,300 Swedish kronor per month. In contrast, in the same year, women in the same occupation earned only 51,200 Swedish kronor. Game and digital media developers develop and program games and other interactive media, including graphics and digital animations.

In 2023, the Modern Times Group (MTG) employed 1,042 people. The biggest share of the staff was located in Singapore, with 262 male and 95 female employees based in the country. The second-largest employee group was based in Germany. MTG's German operations is free-to-play game developer and publisher InnoGames.

Modern Times Group - abbreviated as MTG - is a Swedish entertainment company based in Stockholm but operating in other countries worldwide. Since the split into two companies, MTG's business areas only include eSports and online gaming. The split company Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT) comprises the broadcast segments.