How many programmers realistically would it take to make a high end game in UE4?

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Salary wise we’re fairly low for the game industry, simply because we’re part of a pilot programme which aims to help us get investment. Costs of running the studio are however considerably higher, due to the kind of people we meet, resources etc. Per head I couldn’t really figure out what the cost of each person is… but I’m estimating in the region of £35K - £40k, once they’ve been paid for the year and had all the equipment and software they need to do the job (that stuff is an initial one-time cost of course, excluding future upgrades). Artist software is the expensive part, programmers are considerably cheaper in that regard

As for the titles; our game is a ten minute space-based experience, multiplayer only (30 max players) and using real physics calculations to perform all the movement and whatnot. Nobody else here is doing Multiplayer right now I believe, but one is a large-world game and the other a puzzle/portal-like first person game.

As DV said, Gears had a minuscule team considering it’s scope, but at the same time they had the Unreal Engine that paid the bills while they made the game You can probably find the going-rate for a junior programmer online somewhere, the key part is to ensure they have good C++ experience, and ideally a good grounding in Unreal too.

Good to know. I know the high end programmers make is anywhere from 80-100k varying, I was just trying to figure out the floor. Thanks.

Is anyone here making an RPG that could provide any input on time or what their staff looks like?

Thanks for everyones input so far, and for being helpful to someone whos rather unfamaliar with this information.