Tapping into the Super Job Market

You’ve seen them, those jobs advertising payments of 30,000 Neopoints a piece or higher. Sounds tempting, right? The most they’re posting for Basic Jobs is 10,000 NP, and you have to hope the items are cheap on the Shop Wizard, and if they are, you have to apply against hundreds of other applicants vying for the same job. So Super Jobs sound like a steal! All you need is to find the right coloured job coupon, and massive profits are yours!

And then you check the prices of said coupons. High-end job coupons cost more than 100,000 NP a piece, and even the low-end coupons are expensive. For this reason, most people ignore Super Jobs, thinking they’re not worth it.

And that’s one reason why they’re worth it.

Super Jobs have one crucial advantage over Basic Jobs: their payouts are fixed within a certain range depending on their colour, and regardless of the item they’re asking for. If you apply for a Silver Job, you get around 30,000 NP plus up to a 25% time bonus, and it doesn’t matter if it’s an expensive Bear or a worthless Healing Potion or Gross Food. Better yet, fewer people apply for Super Jobs, so unless you’re going for the rare Purple or Pink jobs, it’s easy to get those cheap items and then apply for the job to get a maximum bonus.

Here are the posted payout ranges for each of the 11 job levels:

Rank	Job	Min	Max	Min. + Bonus	Max. + Bonus	Max. Total	Approx. Price*	Max. Profit
1	Green	3000	3500	3750	4375	4375	6000	-1625
2	Blue	4500	5000	5625	6250	10625	10000	625
3	Red	9000	10000	11250	12500	23125	19000	4125
4	Silver	28000	31000	35000	38750	61875	50000	11875
5	Gold	55000	60000	68750	75000	136875	105000	31875
6	Purple	75000	80000	93750	100000	236875	150000	86875
7	Pink**	95000	100000	118750	125000	361875	180000	181875
8	Green Brightvale	20000	25000	25000	31250	393125	260000***	133125
9	Bronze Brightvale	40000	45000	50000	56250	449375	330000***	119375
10	Silver Brightvale	67500	70000	84375	87500	536875	420000***	116875
11	Gold Brightvale**	90000	100000	112500	125000	661875	500000***	161875

*Prices subject to change.

**Maximum job payout is 100,000 NP, including bonuses.

***Uses maximum price of Purple/Pink jobs, which pay out more than the Brightvale jobs.

Remember, including the time bonus, the maximum payout of each Basic Job is 12,500 NP, and you’d have to be really lucky to get anywhere near that much profit. I’d say that on average, I can fetch about 4000 NP per job, so about 20,000 NP a day. Sometimes, if I get lucky, I can get 30,000 NP.

So now let’s compare that to our Job Coupons. Obviously, Green and Blue are out of the question. You start to see some more profit with Red up to Gold, but only about as much as Basic Jobs at best. But once you get up to Purple and above, now we’re talking. As the table shows, you can make hundreds of thousands off a single job coupon.

There’s just one catch: In order to reach as close to the 100,000 NP payout limit as possible, you need to take a Purple or a Pink job. You will almost never find them if you just casually browse the job postings, so you’ll have to wait for them. Find the time that new job postings come out, then remember to check back just before every 10 minutes afterwards. It’s also imperative that you haven’t done your maximum 5 jobs yet when camping out for these jobs. And remember to have your Job Coupon ready, because you’ll lose valuable time if you have to look through your Safety Deposit Box.

If you see a Pink Job, go for it! There’s no time pressure because the payout is capped at 100,000 NP anyway, so it depends on how much you’re willing to pay for the delivery items. For Purple Jobs however, check the time you have to complete it and have the Shop Wizard ready. If you have over 50 minutes, losing 1000 NP in time bonus is no big deal, but if you have less time than that, buy the items first, then apply for the job. You want to get the most out of your coupon, so missing a job is better than taking a huge hit to your time bonus.

Luckily, jobs below Purple are nowhere near as competitive, so once you completed the Purple Job, congratulations! You’ve covered most or all of the cost of the coupon, so now you can reap the profits with the lower-tier jobs. Just remember, only accept if the payout is in the higher range and the items are cheap, since you have a lot more time to check how much you’ll get out of the job.

Finally, if you can see a good deal on Job Coupons at the Auction, all the more power to you. While competing for the highest bid may seem intimidating, I’ve gotten Purple Job Coupons for only a bit more than 100,000 NP with minimal competition, netting me tens of thousands of extra profit, so it’s worth checking the Auction Genie every so often.

If you got the hang of Basic Jobs and would like some more money for your troubles, consider Super Jobs. Sure, they may have a high admission price, and I’d advise against purchasing Gold and below unless they are discounted on the Auction, but the best way to make money is to spend money. Purple Job Coupons and higher will pay off huge in the long run for the patient job seeker.