After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 1174

Chapter 1174: Hiring at Town Level
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Early the next morning, Althea and Garan went up to the Town Center’s highest floor—they were hiring again!

The couple took a secret entrance at the back so that the people wouldn’t know they entered just before new aborigine hires appeared.

Anyway, she was looking forward to the new selections they would have.

With the Center at Level 3, she could hire 3 out of the 5 options she would have every day. She had never quite maximized this back when they were a village—there was no need to—now she looked forward to it.

The reason she didn’t hire as soon as they upgraded to a Town was because everyone was resting and/or busy with celebrations.

She didn’t want to overwhelm the new hires with the festivities and didn’t want her current hires to be too busy helping others adjust and unable to enjoy the events.

Garan looked at her with a smile. “Is there a particular type of aborigine you’re expecting?”

“Hmn, I try to manage expectations,” she said. “I’d like to have more Elementalists, but they are still rare—Oslo and Rowan’s cases were really due to special circumstances.”

In Towns—regardless of level—the rate to get an elementalists was quite low, approximately one every few weeks.

This was not only because they were rare, but also because the other Lords would jump right to hiring them when they appeared in their options.

This was unlike Oslo and Rowan’s case which was a combination of fortuitous events. Had either of them not been sent or punished to go to a village, Alterra wouldn’t have encountered them so early.

It was only because other villages could not sustain hiring such strong (and expensive) people so she had her chance.

“My ideal would be professionals,” she said. “There can’t be too much of them. I’m also looking forward to the future of seeing new professions.

“What about you?” She asked, turning to him. “What do you think is the minimum we should get?”

The average level of town citizens was around level 15, and those who could apply for guards would be around level 20. On the other hand, those who could proudly call themselves “strong” or “Elite” in Town-level were around level 30 or so.

Generally speaking, the people considered ‘elites’ would’ve already settled down in a Town and would not be looking for unknown places to hire them.

They might have already bought their own properties or had become a mainstay in a force with a large amount of benefit from the Lord themselves.

It was naturally quite rare to see anyone beyond level 25 in a Town-level Chancery, especially when said Town was only at level 1.

This was why she assumed this new selection would have—on average—level 13 or 14 in level. While it wasn’t so special, they would become decent addition to her work force.

Speaking of this, they did gather information how much it cost to hire in the Chancery.

They more or less matched the average salaries in Alterra to the Chancery’s standard—if not exceed it—to attract more aborigine talent, all while making sure their local population could comfortably afford the higher cost of living when they were traveling abroad.

The smallest fee—regardless of whether the person had a Class E profession or not—was 10 Gold.

As everyone knew, the hires had to give 5 Gold of their monthly salaries to the System, leaving people from this tier with 5 Gold coins. Five Gold was more than enough to spend in Alterra and was approximately the salary of the common worker here.

Class D professionals or people with Levels 16 to 20 were counted in the second tier, wherein the monthly salary was 15 Gold. If the person was a rare elementalist, this salary would double at 30 Gold.

This was Rowan’s starting salary before, though he was already level 19 now so he should be rising in rank soon… though that didn’t matter anymore because he already resigned from the Chancery.

He was now hired directly under Alterra, in which case he managed to keep the 5 Gold commission fee that was being taken away. Lenny, Betty, and most of the other aborigine hires they had had actually done the same.

This was not commonly done in other places because the hired workers would rarely feel safe enough in a territory to let go of the Chancery. After all, the Chancery was a system designed to protect those who used its service from harm.

In many cases, it was their bond with the Chancery that kept the Lords and their cronies from killing them or forcing them to do things they didn’t want to.

However, in Alterra, there was no such dangers anymore. They had also earned enough contribution to become permanent residents months ago, so in terms of stability there really was no reason to stay associated with the building.

While they were thankful for the Chancery, why did they have to lose 5 gold every month to pay it?

Next was Oslo’s level at Class C or Level 21-30, which had the typical salary of 20 Gold a month. Although he wasn’t a Class C Architect when they hired him, his level allowed him to get salary in this tier.

Combined with him being an elementalist, his salary was a whopping 40 Gold a month which was even higher than the Elder’s current salaries (which was already very sizeable).

Like the others, Oslo also resigned in the Chancery. Even if—technically speaking—he’d have earned more if he stayed, he just felt more… comfortable if he had been hired directly under Alterra.

At this time, he hadn’t become a formal Resident yet—his parents in the City would die with worry if he did—and this was his way of integrating.

However, he was definitely looking forward to using the large amount of contribution points he saved up to finally become a Resident—ideally, along with his family!