iGB-Pentasia Salary Survey 2025 Maps iGaming Pay by Role and Function

The iGB-Pentasia Salary Survey 2025 has landed, and for anyone working in iGaming (online gambling and betting) it is the single most useful piece of compensation data you will read this year. The report breaks salaries down by role and by function, which matters because this industry pays inconsistently across verticals — and most professionals price themselves with stale or secondhand figures.

iGaming Business published the survey in partnership with Pentasia, the recruitment firm that has tracked sector pay for years. That pairing is the reason practitioners treat it as a benchmark rather than marketing material. Recruitment firms see actual offer letters, not self-reported survey answers, and that shapes the data's credibility.

What does a role-and-function breakdown actually change for you?

Plenty. If you sit in a specialist function — compliance, product, CRM, affiliate management — generic salary aggregators will misprice you, because they lump iGaming roles in with wider tech or marketing categories. A dedicated survey tells you what your job family commands inside the sector specifically. That is the number you negotiate from, not a cross-industry median.

If you manage a team, the same data works in reverse. You learn where your pay bands sit relative to the market before a competitor's recruiter calls your senior analyst. Retention conversations go better with current benchmarks in hand.

Why this survey, why now?

The iGaming labour market has spent the past few years absorbing regulated-market expansion, consolidation, and cost discipline all at once. Pay has moved unevenly as a result. Functions tied to regulated-market entry and compliance have gained negotiating power; others have flattened. The 2025 edition captures where those shifts have settled after another year of restructuring across major operators.

Pentasia's vantage point adds a second layer. As an active placement firm in the sector, it observes hiring demand in real time — which roles draw multiple offers, which stall. Salary levels plus demand signals give you market position, not just a number.

How to read it without fooling yourself

A few practices keep the survey useful:

• Compare your total package, not base salary alone; iGaming compensation often includes bonuses tied to operator performance.
• Check your function's range across seniority levels, because the spread between mid and senior is wide in this sector.
• Treat geography as a variable — remote-first operators pay against different reference markets.

Benchmarks describe the market. They don't set your worth. But walking into a review or an interview without them hands the other side the information advantage.

The survey is available now through iGaming Business, and anyone weighing a move in 2025 should read their function's section before updating a CV.