Mechanics, restaurants, dealerships, pawnshops. Legitimate work, legitimate money, and the quiet backbone of everything else that happens here.

Civilian life is open as soon as you are in character. Clock into taxi, bus, haulage, deliveries, sanitation, mechanic work, mining, fishing, hunting, farming or lumber — then spend it, save it, or put it into a firm of your own.

The best legal money is haulage if you know the contracts, mining if you want a tight solo loop, and a player business once customers and supply lines are in place. Taxi, bus and sanitation pay less on their own; stack them while you learn the city.

Businesses are the long game. Apply to run a premises, hire staff and set your own trade. Legal income is what the rest of the city — police, crime and gangs — actually reacts around.