[tejaswiy]

It's also interesting that Starcraft players themselves don't make anything close to this. new-age movie studios if you will. Not that there's anything wrong with that. These guys actually love what they do, and spend a lot of time doing it.

[light3]

The top players make quite decent salaries, over 200k USD/yr:

http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=142342

Although you literally have to be in the top 2.