Civil Protection
As a Civil Protection officer you earn money through a combination of salary, drug confiscations, bounty payouts, and arrest bonuses. The more actively you police the server, the more you earn — a busy CP who arrests wanted players and breaks up cocaine operations can easily out-earn their base salary many times over.
Base Salary
All CP jobs receive a salary paid out at regular intervals. Your base salary depends on your job and any skill tree upgrades you have equipped. Police start at $300 per payout and SWAT start at $600. Investing in your skill tree can increase your salary up to $1,000+ per payout on SWAT. The Mayor can also award bonus payments directly to individual officers.
Drug Arrests & Confiscations
Cocaine is where the real CP money is made. When you deal with a cocaine supplier you earn cash in one of two ways depending on how you stop them:
Arrested — You receive 100% of the cocaine's total value in cash. All packs are seized. At $17,000 base price per pack, arresting someone carrying 25 packs pays out up to $425,000 in a single arrest.
Killed while wanted — You receive 50% of the cocaine's total value in cash. The packs are removed. This is still a substantial reward — 25 packs at base price nets you $212,500.
All other CP officers on the server receive a small cut of every confiscation automatically — 5% of the total confiscation amount is split among the rest of the force. You earn from your teammates' arrests too.
If you have the Confiscation Bonus skill unlocked, your payout is further increased by 10%, 20%, or 30% depending on how many tiers you have invested. This applies to all drug confiscation events.
Bounty Payouts
Wanted players accumulate a bounty based on their crimes. When you arrest or kill a wanted player, the bounty is split as follows: 50% goes to you as the arrester or killer, 25% is distributed to the government (all CP and Mayor, excluding you), and 25% is removed. Bounties are capped at $15,000,000, so a fully-stacked criminal can be worth millions to bring in.
Bounties grow when wanted players commit crimes — 10% of their money is added to their bounty on arrest, and 3% of their money is added on each death. The more a criminal gets away with, the bigger the payout when you finally catch them.
Arrest Bonus Skill
If you have the Arrest Money skill unlocked in your skill tree, you earn an additional $500 per arrest on top of any bounty or confiscation payout, provided the arrested player was wanted at the time.
Mayor Bonuses
The Mayor can award a direct cash bonus to any individual CP officer at any time. Bonus amounts range from $100 to $100,000 per award, with a 10-second cooldown between each. If you have a generous Mayor on shift, it is worth staying active and visible.
The most efficient way to earn as CP is to target cocaine suppliers. A single arrest of a supplier carrying a full load can pay out more than an entire session of salary alone.
Other Police Guides
This page covers income only. For everything else about playing as CP, see the dedicated sections below:
CP Skill Tree — Unlock salary upgrades, confiscation bonuses, arrest range, wanted markers, and more.
Arresting & Warrants — How to want, warrant, and arrest players. Using the arrest stick correctly.
Mayor — How the Mayor role works, tax controls, salary upgrades, and bonuses.
Bounty System — How bounties accumulate on criminals and how payouts are calculated.