Study Estimates How Much Video Game Characters Would Make In The Real World, Accidentally Finds That Cops Are Overpaid
A recent study into how much money various video game characters would make in the real world has found that cops are in fact some of the top earners in our society. The fact that police officers figure so prominently in the study should come as no surprise to anyone even remotely familiar with video game characters.
The study was conducted by a gaming platform called Solitaired. The methodology employed by the company involved looking into the average salaries earned by people exercising a variety of different professions. “Information on video game characters was used to determine each character’s occupation,” the study established. “Averages of each salary were taken from Salary Expert’s comparison tool, Indeed, or Federal Pay and then ranked from highest to lowest.”
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The study in question “looked at some of the world’s most iconic video game characters and calculated how much each would earn if they landed their real-world dream job.” This involved basing “character earnings on data from salary comparison sites as well as publicly available pay bands to find an average yearly salary for more than 50 video game characters.”
The top ten earners according to the study were Handsome Jack from Borderlands 2, a Chief Executive Officer making $432,524 followed by Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid, Albert Wesker from Resident Evil, Alex Mason from Call of Duty, Max Payne from Max Payne, Cole Phelps from LA Noire, Gordon Freeman from Half-Life, Arthur Morgan from Red Dead Redemption 2, Mortimer Goth from The Sims, and Isaac Clarke from Dead Space. Worth noting is how fully half of these video game characters are either actual cops or something very similar.
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