Anywhere from $40k if they've taken a junior role at a small games studio as a sacrifice to get into an industry they love, because all the employers they want to work for either have no jobs, or don't trust a non-games programmer without a probation period in a junior role ..... to $250k+ if they've risen through the ranks of a large corporation and are in a key technical executive role...

You wanna supply some more information?

What relevant experience do you have to games? What kinds of applications have you spent the last 16 years building?

Do you know graphics? Do you know concurrency? AI?

Maybe your skills would get your foot in the door as a back-end or tools developer -- perhaps you have a lot of experiences with databases, for example.

How much would the average salary be, for say, a programmer who has 16 years of experience but who also have no experience with making games?

Are you asking because you are wondering what to offer an applicant? If so, why would you want to hire someone with no game experience?

One note on salary surveys...

They almost always skew high for a couple reasons

1) self reporting, people sometimes inflate their salaries

2) the people who know about and take the survey tend to be a bit savvier and more experienced (thereby skewing the survey pool towards more experienced people)

3) high-end outliers can skew averages.

I.e if 9 people answer "50k" and one answers "250k", then the Average is $80,000, even though "50k" would be a better number.

(for that reason, the 'median' salary is a more meaningful number than 'average')

Are you asking because you are wondering what to offer an applicant?

The reason I asked this, red codec, is that you posted this question in the Business forum (not the Game Industry Job Advice forum) - which made me think you were likely asking from the employer side.