Baszucki: Top 1,000 Roblox developers average $1.3M in earnings
David Baszucki · How Roblox Turned Game Developers Into $1.3M+ Earners · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Apr 1, 2026 · at 5:17
Roblox CEO David Baszucki discusses platform developer payouts and creator economics with host Molly O'Shea.
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“Our developer creator earned about a billion and a half on the platform, and it goes pretty deep, like top thousand devs are averaging 1.3 million, like real people making a live on living.”
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