Twitch remains the largest platform by a longshot in the game streaming space, even as some top-tier creators – most recently Ludwig Ahgren – continue to be poached by competitor YouTube Gaming.
In February, Amazon-owned Twitch clocked 1.9 billion hours of watch-time, per analytics firm Rainmaker.gg, a slight dip from the 2 billion hours it saw in January. By comparison, Facebook Gaming clocked 497 million hours of watch time last month.
Internally, however, a recent Bloomberg report found that members of Twitch's workforce are going the way of some streaming stars. Six C-Suite executives – and a total of 60 employees – have left the company this year, per Bloomberg, including Twitch's COO, chief content officer, and head of creator development. The report found that 300 employees left the company in 2021.
Amid these exits, Insider analyzed work-visa disclosures to shed light on what Twitch pays for certain roles.
The public data, released by the US Office of Foreign Labor Certification, shows how much Twitch offered to pay foreign staffers it wanted to hire in the US for data, engineering, product, and other roles.
It included wages from 84 foreign-labor applications that were submitted by Twitch Interactive, and certified between October 1, 2020 and December 31, 2021.
Most of the jobs were based in San Francisco, California; and Seattle, Washington, with a handful in other US cities.
The wages in the disclosure data are the base salaries the company declared in foreign-labor-certification applications that it pays for certain roles, according to US Department of Labor documentation. Companies may pay employees more than the figures reflected in this data or compensate them in additional ways, like through stock options and grants.
Based on the data, Twitch offered from late 2020 through 2021 annual base salaries ranging from $60,174 and $201,968 for certain roles.
Twitch did not respond to Insider's request for comment by press time.
The pay data is detailed below, broken down by field and job title.
Some of the applications included salary ranges, rather than a single annual salary, for a given role. For example, Twitch included a pay rate of $169,000 to $185,000 per year for an applied scientist position. We included these ranges below. In cases where Twitch submitted multiple applications for a particular job, such as a level one senior development engineer, we included the median wage range, as well as the lowest and highest salary for the role.
Product and software — $92,102 to $201,968 per year
Twitch has offered base salaries ranging from $92,102 and $201,968 per year for certain product and software roles. The positions included:
- Manager III, Software Development: $168,179 median; ranging from $140,000 to $185,000
- Product Manager III - Technical: $201,968 median; ranging from $165,000 to $201,968
- SAP Functional Specialist: $121,000 to $185,000
- Senior Manager, Product Management - Technical: $185,000
- Software Developer Engineer III: $185,000
- Software Development Engineer I: $124,650 median; ranging from $92,102 to $185,000
- Software Development Engineer II: $140,500 to $185,000 median; ranging from $94,300 to $185,000
- Software Development Engineer III: $169,134 to $172,500 median; ranging from $133,598 to $185,000
- Software Development Manager: $121,000 to $185,000
- Starfruit Support Engineer: $93,704 to $160,000
- System Administrator/Engineer I: $105,000
- System Development Engineer I: $120,000
- Technical Program Manager II: $170,238 median; ranging from $168,000 to $172,475
Data and research — $60,174 to $185,000 per year
Twitch has offered base salaries ranging from $60,174 to $185,000 for certain data and research roles. The positions included:
- Applied Scientist: $169,000 to $185,000
- Applied Scientist II: $128,671 to $185,000 median; ranging from $72,342 to $185,000
- Applied Scientist III: $185,000
- Business Intelligence Engineer II: $132,100 to $160,000 median; ranging from $77,251 to $160,000
- Business Intelligence Engineer III: $60,174 to $160,000
- Data Engineer II: $169,000 median; ranging from $160,000 to $178,000
- Manager III, Business Intelligence: $185,000
- Senior Manager, Data Science: $185,000
Overall — $60,174 to $201,968 per year
Overall, Twitch has offered salaries between $60,174 and $201,968 for certain roles. Other positions in the data included:
- Legal Counsel III: $170,000
- Sales Account Manager I: $75,000
- Program Manager III: $116,917
- Senior Localization Program Manager: $140,000 to $185,000
- Supply Chain Manager III: $130,000
- UX Designer II: $140,000
This post has been updated to reflect the latest available data. Michael Espinosa contributed to an earlier version of this article.
