The shameful reality: EA employees are earning even less than last year, while CEO Andrew Wilson rakes in a record paycheck amid layoffs. The pay gap at Electronic Arts has never been wider, with Wilson making more than 260 times the average worker’s salary.

It’s been a hot topic for years: executives are often the very problem the games industry needs to address—especially when it comes to cost-cutting. When a company isn’t performing, it’s usually the devs who get the boot and costs get slashed—particularly since 2022, when over 30,000 people lost their jobs after the pandemic, further deepening the industry’s crisis.

Yet it’s rare for the execs who made the bad calls to step aside—their pay stays sky-high, costs are cut, and workers bear the brunt. EA’s latest financial report just revealed that CEO Andrew Wilson increased his total compensation by $5 million over the last fiscal year, reaching an eye-watering $30.5 million.

That figure includes stock awards ($25.7 million), bonuses ($2.8 million), and other perks ($678,000). Meanwhile, the average EA employee made just $117,302 last year, the lowest since 2022. The result? A record pay gap at Electronic Arts: Wilson’s salary is 260 times that of the average worker. And the industry isn’t alone—the Economic Policy Institute says CEOs made 339 times a typical worker’s pay back in 2021.

EA Layoffs Keep Coming

2025 hasn’t brought much good news for employees: in April, EA announced the layoff of 300 developers and the cancellation of two games, aiming to focus on its biggest franchises. Codemasters, the F1 studio, was hit too—but that’s not all. After years of development, the Black Panther game was canceled a few weeks ago and the studio was shut down, with the entire team let go.

Source: 3djuegos