Roblox Published the Numbers on What Making Games There Pays

Roblox turned twenty, and the report landed the same week

Roblox came out on September 1, 2006, so this September 1 marked twenty years. Two days later, on September 3, the company posted an economic impact report in its newsroom. It gathers numbers about the people who build on the platform, not the people who play on it.

Start with the biggest one. Across 2025, Roblox creators earned over $1.5 billion, up from $923 million in 2024. The report also puts the work at nearly 12,000 full-time job equivalents worldwide.

The United States gets its own tally. Creators based there produced $752 million of GDP impact in 2025, a 69% rise over 2024. The report also traces where that money landed: 66% of the 2025 payouts, close to $444 million, went to areas where the share of tech workers sits below the national average.

What did the person in the middle get

That much sounds huge, and then the same report puts another number next to it. More than 42,000 creators take part in DevEx, the program that turns what you earn inside Roblox into real money. The one standing in the middle of that group received about $1,500 over the twelve months ending June 30, 2026.

Putting the two side by side takes some care. The $1.5 billion covers every creator across 2025. The $1,500 belongs to one person, the exact midpoint of the DevEx group, over the twelve months ending June 30, 2026. Different window, different set, so dividing 1.5 billion by 42,000 does not give you anything real.

Of the creators surveyed, 83% work as individuals rather than as established studios. The room outnumbers the office by a lot.

People are still moving to the building side

The report breaks things out by region too. In the European Union, 84% of surveyed creators said their time on Roblox raised their interest in game development as a career. In the Middle East and North Africa, the number of creators eligible for payouts grew 83% in a year.

Take the money out of it and what is left is the fun of making something. DoYouBox has a few spots where you put something in and get something back. Type a word into Pixel Monster and a pixel monster is born, and the same word always gives you the same one. Type anything into LED Sign and the letters scroll past as glowing dots. Type a name into Name Seal and it gets carved as a traditional stamp. All three take seconds.