Guide to Wages and Pay
The Cost of Living
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In the 25th century, when megacorporations dominate the Orion Spur, living is not something one can do for free. While some can eke out a meager existence on frontier worlds where money is not needed to provide for oneself, in civilized space megacorporations squeeze everything they can out of the people, charging for as much as they can. This includes their own employees, and even on top-of-the-line ships, like the SCCV Horizon, very few things come for free to the people who work aboard. This page is designed to show how much the employees aboard the Horizon are paid, and how much they need to spend to do things as a percentage of their income, instead of how much actual credits they get paid, though it is still possible to calculate that.
THIS IS A MECHANICAL GUIDE, NOT A LORE PAGE, AND ITS NUMBERS ARE TAKEN FROM THE CODE. IT IS NOT MANDATORY TO FOLLOW THIS GUIDE, AND IT IS ONLY HERE FOR POTENTIAL USE BY PLAYERS WHO WISH TO PERSONALLY USE IT.
Salaries and Wages
Salaries and wages are determined by the position an employee fulfils aboard the SCCV Horizon. This ranges between one and twenty, with the latter being the highest-paid positions. This number is a significant factor in randomising the bank account of a character aboard the SCCV Horizon. The numbers below are on a monthly basis, for ease of calculations. These numbers are gotten by taking the economic modifier of each job, or how much they get paid weekly, and multiplying it by 4, then removing some points to account for income tax. Each modifier point represents 450 standard Biesel credits.
Other adjustments
This includes things that can either add or subtract the value of a character's salaries and wages, such as a character's familial wealth, should they be supported by them, or species.
Wants and Needs
A character's salaries and wages are used to fulfil their wants and needs. This can range from spending a significant amount of their income on housing, entertainment, and even buying tickets to travel the Orion Spur through ferries and whatnot. Similarly to the above, it ranges on a numerical scale. This is on a monthly basis and does not need additional calculations. Obviously, this is not an exhaustive list of all the things your character may wish to purchase, so if an item you think your character would have is not on this list, either find the nearest comparable item and make up a believable number. This section is also broken up into two parts, ongoing costs, and one time costs.
Examples
This includes examples and a guideline of sorts on how to calculate the class of your character.