iGB-Pentasia Salary Survey Tracks How 2025 Is Reshaping iGaming Pay

The 2025 iGB-Pentasia Salary Survey has landed, and it frames a year in which developments across the iGaming sector — regulatory, commercial and technological — are feeding straight into how companies pay their people. That's the core finding of the annual benchmark from iGaming Business and recruitment firm Pentasia: 2025's developments are reshaping salary trends across the industry, not just nudging them.

For practitioners, this survey is one of the few sector-specific pay benchmarks available. iGaming (online gambling and betting) compensation rarely maps cleanly onto generic tech or fintech salary data, because the talent pool sits across product, engineering, compliance, marketing and trading roles in a regulated, fast-moving market. A dedicated survey closes that gap.

What is the survey actually measuring?

Pentasia, an iGaming-specialist recruitment firm, compiles the survey with iGaming Business, the sector's trade publication. It runs annually. The 2025 edition reads the year's developments — new market openings, tightening regulation in established ones, and consolidation among operators — against salary movements, giving hiring managers and candidates a shared reference point for negotiation.

That matters because pay benchmarks do real work. When a sector-level survey says trends are shifting, individual offers, counteroffers and internal review cycles get repriced against it. Candidates armed with current sector data negotiate from evidence, not anecdote. Employers who ignore it lose people to competitors who don't.

Who should read it closely?

• Job movers in iGaming — anyone pricing themselves for a 2025 or 2026 move.
• Hiring managers and talent teams — for calibrating offers against sector norms rather than cross-industry averages.
• Compliance and regulatory staff — a year of regulatory development typically shifts demand, and pay, toward these functions.
• Operators reviewing retention — the survey period covers developments that change what competitors can offer your people.

The framing matters here. The survey doesn't describe a static pay table. It describes reshaping — structural change in which roles command premium compensation, driven by how 2025's developments played out across markets.

What does this mean for your position?

If you work in iGaming, the practical takeaway is straightforward. Read the survey against your own role, level and market. Where the trends show pressure — regulatory expansion, new market entries, tech-driven role changes — expect hiring competition and pay movement to follow. Where consolidation dominates, expect the opposite: flatter pay growth and more selective hiring.

The full survey, published by iGaming Business, carries the role-by-role detail, and that's where individual readers will find the numbers that apply to them.

Looking ahead, the developments the 2025 survey captures — market openings, regulatory tightening, consolidation — are the same forces that will set the negotiating agenda for iGaming pay into next year's hiring cycle.