Enquête sur les travailleur·se·s du jeu vidéo en France: Édition 2022

The STJV (Syndicat des Travailleurs et Travailleuses du Jeu Vidéo) published its first barometer on video game workers in France, the 2022 edition. The questionnaire of about sixty questions was self-administered online from March to May 2022 and gathered 932 responses. The sample is not representative, and the authors note that the respondents are very few for some breakdowns, which are marked with an asterisk. Topics covered include sociodemographics, education and training, employment, well-being at work, salaries, quality of life and freelancers.

Most respondents are men (72%), and 61.4% hold at least a bac+5 diploma. 58% of respondents are under 30. Of salaried respondents, 81.1% hold a full-time CDI. The cost of a complete private video game school course is put at 25,000 € on average, compared with 11,530 € per student across all fields in France in 2019.

22.5% of salaried respondents reported at least one crunch period in the past year. Among them, the document reports that more than half were not paid for the extra work. Nearly 40% of freelancers are described as forced into freelance work, which the document links to precarity.