Are your Sims overpaid, underpaid or fairly paid? «12...Next Go

waterywatermelon

VeeDub

Depends on the sim and also who gets to define everything from underpaid to overpaid.

Lustianicia

overpaid

Their income has always been a bit excessive... lol I mean, I know it's just a game, but I kinda wish the incomes would be a bit more realistic... then again, the fact that almost every job in the game is far from a "normal" job most people would typically have in real life, is probably also a factor in this.

I like that we actually have part time jobs to choose from as well, unlike previous games (Sims 3 was the first to introduce this). In Sims 2, I recall teen Sims being able to get them, but it was always exclusive to teens.

EnkiSchmidt

overpaid

Depends on the household, but since most of my sims freelance or craft, I feel I have more overpaid sims in general.

Sometimes money doesn't matter: My current household of prison workers technically makes a lot, but it goes into a different account, they cannot use that money. Expeditions to Selvadorada or Strangerville can expect motherlode on demand if they are government/university/corporate funded. So I have a bit of everything.

MyriadSims

overpaid

I once cheated a sims salary to 20k/hour

waterywatermelon

results

lol... I always feel like my Sims are underpaid.

My CAS Sims will buy the house and have a bit of money left over for stuff. Then, they may get Buy wants, and I usually fulfill them because they are easy points. The downside is that, well, it lowers the bank balance.

Sharonia

overpaid

Mostly they're all over paid. I used MCCC to higher bills by 50% because of this.

Khrisstyne

overpaid

My sims are super wealthy.

TheSpotted_C

fairly paid

I guess I should have picked Other. I am just glad that they're able to afford their lives and live their little sim dreams without much worry. No sim has to become a tech guru or a businessperson just to survive when they're clearly more suited to being a freelance photographer or an artist.

ChampandGirlie

what wages? I just motherlode everything!!!

I just wanted to vote this option. Actually, I have all different salary ranges and socio-economic brackets. I use cheats to set up certain households but do so less often now. I'll use them if there's a glitch in the game for some reason and for specific wealthy households. Most sims live on what they earn but I've used Kaching for minor adjustments.

I'm just adding that I wish there were a Motherlode button in life. Hehe.

HopeyStarr

underpaid

Typically my sims are well off but lately I've been playing sim families who honestly cannot afford the houses/apartments they're living in because I keep making renovations - or just plop them in an expensive home off the gallery. When a sim gets home from work and I see how much they made that day I find myself saying "That's it?!"

Aside from home renovations my sims have probably been taking too many vacations. Yeah, their lack of funds is totally my fault.

DoloresGrey

overpaid

Maybe they are overpaid, maybe it is the ridiculously low bills.

Kimmer

fairly paid

Quite fairly paid, except my global superstar actor had been quite underpaid, at least when compared to real life actors who are overpaid in my opinion.
Also doctors and some other Sims on certain careers are not paid well enough.

Yautjagirl

underpaid

I use mod that lowers salaries, because I like the challenge

SheriSim57

underpaid

I don’t use mods, and most of my sims seem underpaid, they certainly don’t live in mansions, but I do play rotationally.

I only have one single sim ( that I don’t cheat with ) that has a nice house. She doesn’t have a job, but does have a sizable greenhouse, however with her dragon fruit plants going back to dirt, which she uses to help pay bills ….. I’m a bit worried about money depleting little by little as she has to pay sizable bills….. as it is I only have 8 dragon fruit plants, the rest are other plants. She also likes archeology so she goes to silvadorado on vacations often.

I have some sims at the top of their careers, and I don’t even consider them rich….. it seems like my bills can be quite high. And I don’t start them off with a free house or anything like that with my normal sims. I guess my sims must do too much partying, vacationing, and living life, because they certainly do like to play. but don’t seem to get ahead quickly in life. But then I do have a large rotation.

mia_noelle97

overpaid

Depends on the sim but most of the time I think they’re overpaid. It’s really easy to get rich in this game.

Atreya33

Depends. When I play rags to riches sims don't earn much in the beginning but once they are half way through a career or have a decent painting skill earning money is really easy.

Hoverael

other opinion

with sims on the breadline and especially on some careers on the first 3 ranks, the job is paid in peanuts. Painting pictures is actually a lot more profitable after the first few levels, so i tend to skip careers and go for painting after gaining a few ranks from San Myshuno museum because of the wall painting. when i've made a little money i switch over to achievement hunting for 5k reward points for a money tree and then the difficulty goes from fairly easy to non-existent.

It takes a while in the careers to get something out of it, even if you had a top end (rank 10) career, your sim is famous with easy street (with double the money per/hour) it still wouldn't be enough. Gardening only works for some types of plants, but good early reliable moneymakers are snapdragons but after a short while, you'll find yourself putting down a lot of planters just to make a few thousand a harvest from the snapdragons.

The money tree is the issue, especially the well known exploit that has still not been removed, that removes any difficulty after the first money tree. I wouldn't mind if the money tree was removed from the game altogether.

That stated, i do have MCCC and the console so using that or the console can give me immediate money as well. i tend to avoid using them because if i start a new save and my sim already has millions, the challenge of getting there is lost and there is not lot to hold my interest working up to that point.

DarkLady2788

fairly paid

My sims are actors so I think they are paid what real actors get paid now a days 😂

SERVERFRA

what wages? I just motherlode everything!!!

Motherlode is very very good to give your sims a fun cool home.

Nate_Whiplash1

what wages? I just motherlode everything!!!

My Sims live the easy life....well, most of them anyway....

Simmingal

overpaid

usually overpaid
because i often max the careers and don't make mega big houses

that being said i actually noticed the bills crawling up for my bigger houses after they updated it so for those houses it seems quite fair balance

LesleyA

other opinion

Wages dont really matter as they start getting their wealth from painting, and then start getting their weekly rebates from investing which put their wages to shame. The sims dont really need to work at all.

Stutum

other opinion

My Sim is unemployed, as there's no job that can offer her anything near what she gets in royalties from her books every day.

FraTac

overpaid

Usually overpaid, but when it gets too unrealistic I just cheat away the money in excess with the "money 123" cheat.

babajayne

overpaid

Normally my sims work very hard and most of them reach the top of their careers long before retirement. They have no problem affording large estates and earn more than they can spend. There’s always someone in the family who gardens a bit, and occasionally they can sell a bunch of dragonfruit for several thousands, but I only sell produce if money gets low and I don’t let them get money trees.

Lately I’ve been playing a lot differently where I roll a die and there is a 1 in 6 chance every day that someone in the house will die. Lifespan is short and no one has a job, so I use money cheats in this save because earning money isn’t the point. They’re royalty and the challenge is to see how far I get before I run out of heirs. It’s a lot easier to kill a sim if I don’t feel invested in them, and I have more freedom throughout the day to set up the drama that unfolds with the other dice roll results. This is a rare occasion where money cheats have not ruined my fun.