Workers & Wages

How many workers you have, depends on the difficulty setting (lower difficulty = more workers) and the wage rate (higher wages = more workers). Be careful with setting the wages lower than normal: your people are easily annoyed.

Only people living in common housing work. Occupants of elite housing rather spend their days at the theatre pavilion or clothing themselves in the finest silk and thus have 'no time' to work.

It is interesting to note that you do not pay for workers that are unemployed.

The following table shows which percentage of your common people is available for work. In the last row is what you pay your people (in cash) per worker per year.

Wage rate	Difficulty level					Cost per worker per year
Wage rate	Very easy	Easy	Normal	Hard	Very hard	Cost per worker per year
None	42	37	32	29	27	0
Very low	46	41	36	33	31	2.0
Low	49	44	39	36	34	2.6
Normal	52	47	42	39	37	3.0
High	55	50	45	42	40	3.4
Very high	57	52	47	44	42	4.0

Example

You have a city with 1500 people, you're playing on hard and you set your wage level on low.

Number of workers:
Look at the table: you have 36% of 1500 people available for work, and that is:
0.36*1500 = 540 workers.

Yearly wage bill:
You pay 2.6 cash per worker per year. If we assume that ALL workers available have jobs (i.e. no unemployment), your yearly wage bill is:
2.6*540 = 1404 cash