Over half of game developers report being underpaid

gamedeveloper.com:

A new report from global labor organization Uni Global Union indicates that over half of game developers say they are underpaid.

In the report produced by the Switzerland-headquartered organization, that datapoint is one of several that are apparently driving increased developer interest in unionization. This a global survey, with different regions reporting different sentiments from developers.

Globally, over 66 percent of developers say that "low pay" is one of their top workplace issues. In Europe, 77 percent of developers reported being underpaid. 

This issue is apparently exacerbated at mobile game studios (where 73 percent of developers say they aren't being paid enough), and localization companies (where a whopping 94 percent of workers identified low pay as an issue). 

This and other issues have apparently driven 79 percent of developers to say that they would "definitely" or "somewhat" support a union.

15 percent said they would neither support or oppose a union, while 6 percent outright opposed unionization. For comparison, 55 percent of respondents to the State of the Industry survey conducted by Game Developers Conference (our sibling organization) said that the video game industry should unionize.

Though only 35 percent of respondents to Uni Global Union's survey indicated that gender discrimination or sexual harassment was a workplace issue, 46 percent of women and 43 percent of nonbinary developers reported gender discrimination as still being a problem.

Additionally, 24 percent of women and 23 percent of nonbinary respondents reported sexual harassment as an issue at their workplaces.

Both statistics rose among respondents who work at triple-A game studios, particularly for women responding to the survey. Among