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http://e-sports.or.kr
As stated above, Kespa revealed the average salary for progamers in order to correct the misleading report from Korea Creative Content Agency.
This excludes prizes, winning incentives and streaming incomes; considering this, the actual average income of SC2 progamers will be about $50K for a year.
SC2(Jinair, SKT, KT, Samsung, CJ) players:
25 players
Average incomes for 2016: $45.88K
Players who get more than $100K: 0
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Wow, after all these years. Does anyone know if there's a minimum salary for the practice partners? I assume there's some massive wage disparity between stars and scrubs.
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So only the top teams (no MVP or SBENU, let alone Prime or foreign teams), and not even all of them if there were only 25. Only counted A-teamers I guess. Great transparency, KeSPA...
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That's a pretty good number, but the sample size is way too low.
Also the discrepancy between StarCraft and League is quite interesting.
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On December 24 2015 14:58 RoninKenshin wrote: Wow, after all these years. Does anyone know if there's a minimum salary for the practice partners? I assume there's some massive wage disparity between stars and scrubs.
$300 per month, at most.
On December 24 2015 14:58 bduddy wrote: So only the top teams (no MVP or SBENU, let alone Prime or foreign teams), and not even all of them if there were only 25. Only counted A-teamers I guess. Great transparency, KeSPA...
No. If it is 25, it includes everyone in those 5 teams.
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Vancouver14381 Posts
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so they earn on average like 4 000 $ per month and no one gets more than 8 000$. seems reasonable , bearing in mind that their food/sleeping expenses are covered because they live in teamhouses.
ps : oops my bad, saw the following link and my numbers are off
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On December 24 2015 15:00 Thouhastmail wrote: No. If it is 25, it includes everyone in those 5 teams. Huh? This isn't LoL. Player numbers according to Liquipedia:
SKT: 8 Samsung: 11 JAGW: 6 CJ: 6 KT: 10
...which makes 41. Get rid of the lowest-paid 40% and suddenly your numbers get a lot better...
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Faker easily gets 200k USD a month, if not from playing for SKT, definitely for streaming.
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On December 24 2015 15:05 bduddy wrote:Show nested quote +On December 24 2015 15:00 Thouhastmail wrote: No. If it is 25, it includes everyone in those 5 teams. Huh? This isn't LoL. Player numbers according to Liquipedia: SKT: 8 Samsung: 11 JAGW: 6 CJ: 6 KT: 10 ...which makes 41. Get rid of the lowest-paid 40% and suddenly your numbers get a lot better...
It was sarcasm..
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On December 24 2015 15:05 BreAKerTV wrote: Faker easily gets 200k USD a month, if not from playing for SKT, definitely for streaming. Yeah I'm sure he makes a lot more than some average KeSPA players do, but where did you get that "$200k a month" from? Just curious.
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I'm not sure how far that money goes in Korea, but that seems pretty damn nice for having all expenses paid and all the more because of how young a lot of these guys are.
The sample size really hurts though... that number drops in half at least if they included ALL player's salaries.
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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?36900 Posts
On December 24 2015 14:54 Thouhastmail wrote: Edit: someone please add 't' before 'he'? You know you can edit your own messages right? Just look for the "Edit" button at the bottom of your posts.
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On December 24 2015 15:19 J. Corsair wrote: I'm not sure how far that money goes in Korea, but that seems pretty damn nice for having all expenses paid and all the more because of how young a lot of these guys are.
The sample size really hurts though... that number drops in half at least if they included ALL player's salaries.
But they also get Housing, living, travel, and any prize money they win. So while the sample size may be off, the amount of value they're getting is as well.
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Considering most of these guys live in a Team House, there's a "pay" vs "total compensation" issue that can get really messy. Because even if a player is going getting 20k USD a year, if their room & board is covered, that really shifts the calculations. Plus that's before prize money and "bonuses".
So this is something to both worry a bit about and, at the same time, to understand it's more complicated than the information everyone is currently presenting.
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On December 24 2015 15:21 Seeker wrote:Show nested quote +On December 24 2015 14:54 Thouhastmail wrote: Edit: someone please add 't' before 'he'? You know you can edit your own messages right? Just look for the "Edit" button at the bottom of your posts.
I know, but I cannot edit thread title. It was "Kesap revealed 'he' average..."
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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?36900 Posts
On December 24 2015 15:24 Thouhastmail wrote:Show nested quote +On December 24 2015 15:21 Seeker wrote:On December 24 2015 14:54 Thouhastmail wrote: Edit: someone please add 't' before 'he'? You know you can edit your own messages right? Just look for the "Edit" button at the bottom of your posts. I know, but I cannot edit thread title. It was "Kesap revealed 'he' average..." Ahhhh, okay, gotcha.
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Norway839 Posts
from a non-Korean perspective ~$3000+/month seems to be a crazy strong baseline sc2 salary, especially if it's on top of free housing etc o_o good for the 25 listed in the sample size.
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On December 24 2015 15:17 TR wrote:Show nested quote +On December 24 2015 15:05 BreAKerTV wrote: Faker easily gets 200k USD a month, if not from playing for SKT, definitely for streaming. Yeah I'm sure he makes a lot more than some average KeSPA players do, but where did you get that "$200k a month" from? Just curious.
he got it from the same place most people get numbers from: their ass.
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On December 24 2015 16:13 Liquid`Snute wrote: from a non-Korean perspective ~$3000+/month seems to be a crazy strong baseline sc2 salary, especially if it's on top of free housing etc o_o good for the 25 listed in the sample size.
How much does TL pay you?
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