How much income does a city produce? [Archive] - Wizards Community

How much income does a city produce? [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Gift_of_Fury
05-11-07, 08:36 AM Greeting all

I am wondering where I can find any information to determine the average yearly income of the major cities of the realms?

Take the Cities of the Moon Sea and Cormyr for example, what would be the Average income for …say the city of Hillsfar?
ikki
05-11-07, 03:00 PM do you mean taxes?
Or some weird form of socialism where everyone works just as much, regardless of whether they get anything out of it for themselves?

I think you can assume yearly earnings of maybe 100 gold a year per person on averge. Tax half of it and they will starve.. take a tenth and they wont complain too much.. atleast if there is employment for all and the watch is strong :D
lightcwu
05-11-07, 04:08 PM do you mean taxes?
Or some weird form of socialism where everyone works just as much, regardless of whether they get anything out of it for themselves?

I think you can assume yearly earnings of maybe 100 gold a year per person on averge. Tax half of it and they will starve.. take a tenth and they wont complain too much.. atleast if there is employment for all and the watch is strong :D

My god the peasantry of the Realms are rich! Going by the prices out of the Stronghold Builder's Guidebook which provides how much your servants monthly wages are, and these are the price they give adventurers which WotC always inflates, your peasantry is not going to make 100gp a year. Your smiths, clerks, and cavalrymen are going to be making 12gp a month which is more then what you were saying but they are also the top of the peasant life style. Your average commoner is going to be raking in a cool 49gp a year, before taxes. As stated earlier that's assuming everyones employed, your still going to have about 10 percent of your population starving to death in the streets. Yes taxes usually did drive people so far below the poverty line as to drive them into the streets hence why begging was a common source of income. I would say probably a quarter of there wages is a good place to start. Flux based on out look of government. Silverymoon may only charge 15% where Moonsea may go as high as 35%. But I would assume in Waterdeep taxes would be about 25%.
Lord Karsus
05-11-07, 05:37 PM -See my response in the other thread.
Stigger
05-11-07, 06:15 PM Last I checked, Waterdeep only taxed the nobility, a flat 1% of annual income, collected fees for wagons and ships that enter the city, and a few minor charges here and there. There was a fairly strong indication in the City of Splendors boxed set that the average commoner did not pay taxes. Haven't looked to see if they changed that in 3.5 though.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Gift_of_Fury 05-11-07, 08:36 AM	Greeting all I am wondering where I can find any information to determine the average yearly income of the major cities of the realms? Take the Cities of the Moon Sea and Cormyr for example, what would be the Average income for …say the city of Hillsfar?
ikki 05-11-07, 03:00 PM	do you mean taxes? Or some weird form of socialism where everyone works just as much, regardless of whether they get anything out of it for themselves? I think you can assume yearly earnings of maybe 100 gold a year per person on averge. Tax half of it and they will starve.. take a tenth and they wont complain too much.. atleast if there is employment for all and the watch is strong :D
lightcwu 05-11-07, 04:08 PM	do you mean taxes? Or some weird form of socialism where everyone works just as much, regardless of whether they get anything out of it for themselves? I think you can assume yearly earnings of maybe 100 gold a year per person on averge. Tax half of it and they will starve.. take a tenth and they wont complain too much.. atleast if there is employment for all and the watch is strong :D My god the peasantry of the Realms are rich! Going by the prices out of the Stronghold Builder's Guidebook which provides how much your servants monthly wages are, and these are the price they give adventurers which WotC always inflates, your peasantry is not going to make 100gp a year. Your smiths, clerks, and cavalrymen are going to be making 12gp a month which is more then what you were saying but they are also the top of the peasant life style. Your average commoner is going to be raking in a cool 49gp a year, before taxes. As stated earlier that's assuming everyones employed, your still going to have about 10 percent of your population starving to death in the streets. Yes taxes usually did drive people so far below the poverty line as to drive them into the streets hence why begging was a common source of income. I would say probably a quarter of there wages is a good place to start. Flux based on out look of government. Silverymoon may only charge 15% where Moonsea may go as high as 35%. But I would assume in Waterdeep taxes would be about 25%.
Lord Karsus 05-11-07, 05:37 PM	-See my response in the other thread.
Stigger 05-11-07, 06:15 PM	Last I checked, Waterdeep only taxed the nobility, a flat 1% of annual income, collected fees for wagons and ships that enter the city, and a few minor charges here and there. There was a fairly strong indication in the City of Splendors boxed set that the average commoner did not pay taxes. Haven't looked to see if they changed that in 3.5 though.