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- All Rewards And Items Unlocked In The Criminal Career
Long gone, it seems, are the days of terrifying midnight sound effects and cartoonish striped shirts for Criminals in The Sims 4 – nowadays, these once-cat burglars have graduated to some serious crime, covering dastardly deeds ranging from hackings to robberies. And when there’s danger involved at work, there’s also a good amount of money in your paycheck, too.
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The Sims 4 Criminal career features two unique job branches that allow you to indulge in either cyber-crimes or becoming a real-life menace through the dark of night. Below, we’ve broken down both tracks of the Criminal career in The Sims 4.
Criminal Career Overview
Be The Boss Or The Brains: Choose Between The Boss Path Or The Oracle Path
When you're looking into the Criminal underworld of The Sims 4, in a game that lets you be anything, it's no surprise that you're able to choose from two powerful, quite lucrative career paths in the Criminal career!
You'll be in the general Criminal career branch until choosing a specialty after the promotion to Level 6, at which point you're able to decide between becoming:
- The Boss, in charge of the entire Criminal operation, with job titles gradually getting you closer to being the ringleader of the whole thing.
- With so many people falling in line under you, you'll need to master the Mischief skill, and prove to be quite Handy to the team.
- The Oracle, who's focused far more on the technological side of criminality, their attention focused on hacking.
- Still with a mind for Mischief, Oracles are more centered at their desks with their Programming skill.
Regardless of where your Sim falls in terms of criminal interests, there's plenty of money to be made in the career for those most mischievous. You don't start off raking in cash, but the upper levels of The Sims 4 Criminal career offer some of the highest-paying salaries in the game.
Helpful Traits For The Criminal Career
The most helpful traits for your Criminal Sim in The Sims 4 will vary, depending on the career branch you intend to choose when the time comes.
If you're angling to become The Boss, you'll want a focus on all things Mischief, making Evil or Mean great picks. These traits allow your Sim to feel genuine joy after being cruel to others, and what feels more appropriate for a top-tier criminal.
Meanwhile, with a sharper focus on programming and computers, in addition to the Mischief-centric traits required of Criminals, future Oracles with the Genius trait can make Programming come a bit more naturally to them.
Overall, since there's quite a fair amount of socialization required in building the Mischief skill, you'll do well to give your Sims social traits that allow them to reap additional benefits from the necessary time interacting.
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Every Level Of The Criminal Career: Pay, Hours, Promotion Tasks, And More
In the tables below, you'll find a complete breakdown of The Sims 4's Criminal career. This includes the working hours for each level of the career, pay per day and per hour, daily tasks, and more.
When you first become a criminal, you'll be working every day for next to no money, so your dedication to a life of crime in the earliest days will need to come from your own passion for all things dastardly.
However, the upper levels of the career after you choose a specialty at Level Six offer some pretty handsome payouts.
General Criminal Career (Levels 1-5)
Level
Hours
Rates
Promotional Requirements and Daily Tasks
Tough Guy (1)
Daily
5 PM - 12 AM
$9/hour ($63/day)
Perform Mischief Interactions
Petty Thief (2)
Monday-Saturday
8 PM - 3 AM
$13/hour ($91/day)
Perform Mischief Interactions
Reach Level 2 in the Mischief skill
Ring Leader (3)
Tuesday-Saturday
8 PM - 4 AM
$17/hour ($136/day)
Perform Mischief Interactions
Reach Level 3 in the Mischief skill
Felonious Monk (4)
Tuesday-Saturday
7 PM - 2 AM
$23/hour ($161/day)
Perform Mischief Interactions
Reach Level 5 in the Mischief skill
Minor Crimelord (5)
Tuesday-Saturday
8 PM - 2 AM
$32/hour ($192/day)
Perform Mischief Interactions
Reach Level 6 in the Mischief skill
Boss Career Path
Level
Hours
Rates
Promotional Requirements and Daily Tasks
The Muscle (6)
Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
10PM - 4 AM
$106/hour ($636/day)
Perform Mean Interactions
Reach Level 2 in the Mischief skill
Getaway Driver (7)
Wednesday and Saturday
8 PM - 3 AM
$273/hour ($1,911/day)
Perform Mean Interactions
Reach Level 8 in the Mischief skill
Reach level 2 in the Handiness skill
Safe Cracker (8)
Saturday, Sunday, and Wednesday
6 PM - 1 AM
$319/hour ($2,233/day)
Perform Mean Interactions
Reach Level 9 in the Mischief skill
Reach level 4 in the Handiness skill
The Brains
Sunday, Monday, and Thursday
6 PM - 1 AM
$383/hour ($2,681/day)
Perform Mean Interactions
Reach Level 10 in the Mischief skill
Reach level 6 in the Handiness skill
The Boss
Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday
5 PM - 12 AM
$445/hour ($3,115/day)
Perform Mean Interactions
Oracle Career Path
Level
Hours
Rates
Promotional Requirements and Daily Tasks
Digi Thief (6)
Sunday-Thursday
1 AM - 9 AM
$43/hour ($344/day)
Hack or Make Viruses
Reach Level 7 in the Mischief skill
Reach Level 2 in the Programming skill
Elite Hacker (7)
Sunday-Thursday
2 AM - 10 AM
$73/hour ($584/day)
Hack or Make Viruses
Reach Level 8 in the Mischief skill
Reach Level 4 in the Programming skill
An0nymous Ghost (8)
Sunday-Tuesday, and Thursday
1 AM - 10 AM
$130/hour ($1,170/day)
Hack or Make Viruses
Reach Level 9 in the Mischief skill
Reach Level 6 in the Programming skill
Net Demon (9)
Sunday-Tuesday, and Thursday
1 AM - 8 AM
$234/hour ($1,638/day)
Hack or Make Viruses
Reach Level 10 in the Mischief skill
Reach Level 8 in the Programming skill
The Oracle (10)
Sunday-Tuesday, and Friday
12 Am - 7 AM
$316/hour ($2,212/day)
Hack or Make Viruses
Unsurprisingly, you won't start off rolling in Simoleons as an aspiring Criminal, but the upper levels of the career offer some of the highest salaries in The Sims 4.
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All Rewards And Items Unlocked In The Criminal Career
Finally, we've got a complete list of every item, CAS option, and social interaction unlocked as part of the Criminal career in The Sims 4.
Everything Unlocked In The Sims 4 Criminal Career
Level
Items and Interactions Unlocked
General Criminal Career (Levels 1-5)
Tough Guy (1)
N/A
Petty Thief (2)
Emblems of Espionage
Ring Leader (3)
Duffle o' Cash
"Pick Pocket"
Felonious Monk (4)
Vintage Baseball Bat Sculpture
Minor Crimelord (50
New clothes in CAS
Boss Career Path
The Muscle (6)
Stolen ATM
Getaway Driver (7)
Bars of Gold
Safe Cracker (8)
Stolen Necklace of the Late Dutchess Pinky
The Brains (9)
"Search for Bank Blueprints"
The Boss (10)
Fisticuffs Punching Bag
New clothes in CAS
Oracle Career Path
Digi Thief (6)
Spy Satellite
Elite Hacker (7)
Hot and Cold Tech Spec Poster
"Hack Mainframe"
An0nymous Ghost (8)
The Indespensible
Net Demon (9)
N/A
The Oracle (10)
Mayhem Portable Computer
New clothes in CAS
If you don't want to wait to unlock all the rewards, or you're interested in grabbing something from the other career track without starting your whole career over, we've got a guide to Build/Buy cheats that unlock everything for you.
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