Nintendo Salary Data Refreshed on Levels.fyi, Ranging From $40K to $220K

Nintendo's crowdsourced compensation profile on Levels.fyi was refreshed March 18, 2026, revealing a salary spread that runs from $40,357 in total compensation for Customer Service roles to $220,000 for Software Engineers — a nearly fivefold gap across the company's U.S. workforce snapshot.

The update, drawn from anonymous and verified submissions by current and former Nintendo employees, adds concrete data points to a company that rarely publicizes internal pay ranges. The median figures show sharp differentiation by function: a Software Engineering Manager sits at $199,000 in median total compensation, while a Mechanical Engineer lands at $149,250. Product Managers come in at $138,992, Information Technology roles at $120,600, and Business Analysts at $117,585.

The distance between technical and non-technical compensation at Nintendo mirrors a pattern seen across the broader game industry, where engineering scarcity has driven salaries toward levels competitive with software companies outside gaming, while operational and support roles remain anchored to lower pay bands. Customer Service at $40,357 represents the floor; the next step up on the listed roles, Business Analyst at $117,585, is nearly three times higher.

Levels.fyi, which aggregates crowdsourced pay data across tech and game-industry employers, describes its Nintendo dataset as collecting "anonymous and verified salaries from current and former employees." The platform does not itemize what changed in the latest refresh or break down total compensation into its components, so whether the figures reflect base salary alone or a combination of base, equity, and bonus cannot be confirmed from the page data.

The $220,000 Software Engineer figure is the single highest listed median across all Nintendo roles on the platform and places experienced Nintendo engineers in a range comparable to mid-tier tech company compensation, a point that carries weight as the industry contends with ongoing layoffs at competitors and Nintendo prepares for the Switch 2 launch cycle, a period that historically tightens demand for engineering talent.