Getting started

Getting a job

The public jobs with where each one starts, what it needs and what it pays, the trades, faction and business duty, and how player companies hire. For anyone with a character.

Updated 30 September 2026

What it is

Work in the city comes in four flavours. Public jobs are run by the city: walk into a depot, rent or borrow a vehicle and get paid per task, with no application and no boss. Trades such as fishing and hunting are self employed: you buy the kit, sell what you catch and answer to nobody. Faction duty is for the police, fire, EMS and other organisations you join through their own process. Company work means being hired by a player-owned business, clocking on with a timesheet and drawing wages from their payroll. New characters usually start with a public job because it pays the same day and teaches the map.

Every job pays into your bank. Hours on duty also count towards a weekly paycheck, which needs eight hours of duty in the week to qualify.

How to start

Type /jobs to open the jobs hub. It shows the trucking and bus depots, your active shift, recent earnings and any ban from a job type. For the other public jobs walk to the depot marker on the map; each one has a blip once you are nearby. Trucking checks your licence class at the board, and the police check everyone else on the road, so pass your test before you turn up.

The public jobs

Job	Where it starts	What you need	What it pays
Trucking	English server: Paleto Bay Trucking Depot in Paleto Bay. Balkan server: Los Santos Trucking Depot at the docks. `/trucking` opens the board's handbook anywhere	Class C licence for a van, B for a rigid, A for a tractor. Rentals from $450 a shift, or your own truck	Per contract, priced by distance, cargo class and deadline; a new driver starts on local parcels and dry goods
Bus driver	LS Transit Authority, downtown	The bus is free under the government scheme; return it when you finish	Per route completed, with rush hour and night shift bonuses
Sanitation	The waste transfer station in the south of the city	Higher tiers unlock with sanitation level	Residential bin bags $14 a unit plus $70 for the route; commercial dumpsters $45 a unit plus $120 from level 3; industrial and recycling routes at level 6 and 8
Lumber	The lumber yard in Paleto Forest	Nothing but the walk; a timing game on each strike	$120 for a clearing contract, $220 for deep forest, $380 for the mountain trail
Mining	Sandy Shores Quarry	Nothing to start; head to the marked area and mine	Ore sold at the quarry: stone $5, coal $15, copper $45, iron $75 and rarer finds as your level rises
Landscaping	The landscaping depot in Rockford Hills	The depot lends a truck and a mower	$22 a patch cut
Taxi	Downtown Cab Co depot in East Vinewood, or the Ryde app	Driving licence. Rent a cab for $120 an hour, $300 for three or $800 for twelve, plus a $200 deposit returned with the cab	Fares from passengers, paid by the meter
Farming co-op	The farmer at the Grapeseed produce stand (`/farmcoop`)	A crew of two or more; the lead takes the contract	Per load sold back to the farmer
Fuel delivery	The freight board (`/freight`)	A cargo truck and a tanker endorsement for fuel	Per delivery to the station that ordered it

The old haulage freight yard has closed; haulage work now runs from the trucking depot. See Trucking.

Paleto Bay Trucking Depot51.81, 6486.21

English server. The contract board; the rental bay is just south

Los Santos Trucking Depot798.06, -2988.62

Balkan server. The contract board, the rental yard and the forklifts

Step by step

Open the jobs hub
Type /jobs. Read the Overview tab: it tells you whether you already have a shift running, whether you are banned from a job type (returning a rented vehicle late earns a seven day ban) and what you earned recently.
Go to the depot
Walk to the marker. Trucking and bus depots open a board when you press E; the smaller jobs give you a prompt at the marker to start a shift or take a contract.
Rent or collect the vehicle
Public jobs lend a vehicle for the shift. Buses and mowers are free; trucks and cabs cost a rental fee that is taken when the vehicle appears and refunded if it fails to spawn. At the trucking and bus depots you are responsible for it: if you leave the vehicle you have three hours to get back in it or return it, and failing to return it bans you from that job type for seven days.
Work the task
Follow the HUD. Trucking shows the next stop, the deadline and the load limits; the bus shows the route and the next stop; sanitation shows the bags or dumpsters left on the route; mowing shows the patches. Press E at each stop, bag or bay.
Get paid
Pay lands in your bank as each task completes, with a completion bonus at the end of a route where the job has one. /jobstatus shows the current shift and /quitjob or /endshift ends it.
Return the vehicle
Drive back to the depot and press E to hand the vehicle in. Any deposit comes back and the shift closes cleanly. Only then take another contract or log off.

Working for a company

Player-owned companies do real hiring. /hiring (also /jobboard) opens the company job board with every open vacancy, the pay on offer and a button to apply. A company can also invite you directly with /companyinvite. Once you are in:

You can belong to up to three companies and switch which one is active from /company.
Your rank comes with permissions the owner sets: who can hire, pay, see the books or use the stash.
Clock on inside the business with /bduty. Your timesheet records the hours and the owner pays wages from the company account; a business with customers also earns while you are on the till. On the English server, business duty inside Los Santos is closed while the evacuation order is in force (until 2 October 2026 unless extended). See Los Santos evacuation.
/companyleave quits; the owner can disband the company from /company.

The Companies guide covers ranks, payroll and the activity log in detail, and the Factions and the MDC guide explains how the police, fire and EMS recruit and what /duty does once you are in.