Hello all, Does anyone know what's the average salary for a beginner community manager ? It would help a lot, thanks in advance.

In what market, in what country?

A "beginner community manager" sounds a lot like a "junior GM" for online games. I'd expect in the range $10-$20, paid hourly -- not a whole lot more than a burger flipper (who start at $9.75 in the SF Bay area). I'm of the impression that there's fair competition for junior GM positions (who wouldn't want "the power," and "playing games all day" ? :-)

Once you're senior, and understand communities, marketing, projects and the other pieces, salaries should go up commensurately.

Community manager is not GM.

Market is france, *big* company ;-)

As you are not giving us any useful information as to what the job actually is, it will be hard for us to give you a meaningful answer.

That's weird, i thought "community manager" was clear.
MMORPGs have communities, and community managers. All of them. The job is mainly about informing the community and answering their questions on important subjects.

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That's weird, i thought "community manager" was clear.
MMORPGs have communities, and community managers. All of them. The job is mainly about informing the community and answering their questions on important subjects.

It's still not clear.

The only way to accurately figure out the pay range is to consider all the responsibilities, the level of supervision you need, how critical the tasks are to success, the supply and demand of workers, required skill set, the location, and other things I'm not thinking of right now.


"Informing the community and answering their questions" sounds like it is about the same level as in-game tech support. You will probably have a manual of standard answers for questions, a standard list of what you should be doing, lots of supervision to make sure you aren't abusing power, noob bashing, or just playing the game on company time, and so on.

In other words it sounds like there is almost no responsibility, a lot of supervision, the work is not critical for success, there is a huge supply of and little demand for qualified workers, and no significant skills are required.

If that is accurate, expect to make about the same amout of money as a burger flipper, tech support call center workers, telemarketers, or similar jobs. In fact, you might make even less because the age group you are looking at would rather say "I work for BigCorp Games and I manage entire online communities" than say "I am a telemarketer" or "I work at McBurgers."

Now, if your job description, supervision levels, significance, demand, and skills required are substantially different, I would look for similar jobs at non-game companies to try to estimate the salary.

boba,

Are you asking as someone who might be offered a job as a community manager for a big French MMO company? If so, they'll tell you how much they're offering when they make you the offer - if you want to know how that stacks up with other community managers in big French companies, well, c'est dommage, 'cause we probably don't know.

Or are you asking as someone who works for a big French MMO company, trying to figure out how much to pay someone to do the job? If so, just offer him what you're willing to pay. If you later find out that it's out of whack with what other big French MMOs are paying, you can make adjustments.

As you can tell from the above, the reason for your asking affects the answer.

Good luck!
Tom

Blizzard France ? ;)