Jobs

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This article is considered accurate for the current version (2.3) of the game.

Planetary management

A job is where Pops work to produce resources on planets. Jobs are divided into different strata, with one higher than the other. Most Jobs are created by Districts and Buildings and thus limited in number. Pops will automatically fill empty Jobs that they are capable of holding and will choose the job that will get the most out of their traits but priority can be set towards and away from specific Jobs to ensure they are filled before others. New Pops that are more suitable for a Job than the current Pop holding the Job will take it from it.

Job weight[edit]

Which job any specific pop takes is defined via a weighting system. It can be overriden by decreasing the priority of certain jobs, ensuring that certain job slots will be left empty.

Each job has a default priority. Higher stratum jobs always have higher priority to ensure they are filled first. Worker and Menial Drone pops will change jobs within the same stratum if their traits are changed, but higher stratum pops will not. It is possible to force a re-evaluation of those jobs by blocking and then re-enabling the jobs.

Species Rights and Living Standards:

Non-Mechanical pops that lack citizenship have a ×0.2 multiplier on nearly every ruler and specialist job. This appears to even affect cyborg pops in driven assimilator empires.
Academic Privilege living standard is a large multiplier on many research-focused jobs.
Pops that can take Servant jobs have the weight for all other jobs drastically cut.
Most slaves have around ×10 weight to most worker jobs. That drops to around ×2 if they could be Servants instead.
Battle Thralls have ×10 for Soldier jobs.

Traits:

Highly specific bonus traits (like Thrifty, Industrious, Traditional, etc.) give a ×1.5 weight multiplier to related jobs.
Very Strong, Strong and Weak give a ×1.2, ×1.1 and ×0.9 to worker jobs.
Shackled and non-sentient robots have an ×2 weight to fill jobs fitting their traits. This is on top of the normal weight modifier for having the trait.
Serviles trait gives a ×1.5–2 multiplier to worker jobs.

Finally there are some very specific modifiers that are probably at fault for any discrepancies:

Pops with the Racket species flag have ×4 to work as Technicians.
Materialist (×0.1) and Spiritualist (×1.2) pop ethics give a modifier to preacher jobs.

A newly grown pop will automatically displace a pop if it has a higher weight than the pop currently occupying the job.

Normal empires[edit]

Stratum[edit]

Each job is classified into one of several strata. Pops will promote to a higher stratum when needed to fill a job, and demote to a lower stratum after they have been unemployed for some time. Regular empires have three strata:

Ruler - The heads of leadership and administration on a planet are vital to its management, uneasy though they may rest.
Specialist - These are the workers who provide advanced goods and services in highly-specialized fields.
Worker - These general laborers form the backbone of industrial and agricultural production, manufacturing, and basic services.

Jobs[edit]

Job	Stratum	Produces	Upkeep	Default Priority	Requirements	Description & Notes
Administrator	Ruler	+3 Unity +8 Amenities	N/A	1		The administration of an entire planet is a daunting task that requires dedicated and highly trained individuals.
Executive	Ruler	+5 Amenities +2 Unity +4 Trade Value	N/A	1	Corporate Authority	Only an executive has the power to drive leading-edge initiatives and synergistically benchmark dynamically conceptualized deliverables.
High Priest	Ruler	+5 Unity +5 Amenities +2 Society Research	N/A	1	Exalted Priesthood civic	To whom do guides turn when they themselves seek guidance? Another, more experienced guide. Exalted Priesthood civic adds +1 Unity output to the job. (possibly not intended)
Merchant	Ruler	+8 Trade Value +5 Amenities	N/A	1		They buy. They sell. They hoard. They re-sell. Agents dealers, retailers, wholesalers - wherever there is trade, there are merchants. Merchant Guilds civic adds +2 Unity output to the job.
Noble	Ruler	+5 Planet Stability +5 Amenities	N/A	1	Aristocratic Elite civic	Heavy is the burden of the nobility, whose birthright is to rule over their unwashed lessers. Luckily, there are a few financial advantages to the position.
Science Director	Ruler	+5 Research Output +5 Amenities	N/A	1		These specialists coordinate and manage the research and development of new technologies.
Artisan	Specialist	+6 Consumer Goods	−6 Minerals	4		Skilled craft workers that manufacture domestic and luxury goods of various types.
Chemist	Specialist	+2 Volatile Motes	−10 Minerals	4		The synthetic development of volatile motes by chemical processes is left to these specialists.
Colonist	Specialist	+1 Food +5 Amenities +1 Planetary Defense Army	N/A	2		The settling of a new world is no easy undertaking.
Culture Worker	Specialist	+3 Society Research +3 Unity	−2 Consumer Goods	4		Maintaining the arts is the realm of these workers, vital for the inner development and social expression of citizens.
Duelist	Specialist	+3 Unity +12 Amenities +2 Naval Capacity	−1 Alloys	4	Warrior Culture civic	Martial experts who display their deadly art for the entertainment of the masses.
Enforcer	Specialist	+1 Unity −25 Crime +2 Planetary Defense Armies	N/A	4		Law enforcement officers are responsible for upholding the law and maintaining peace. Police State civic adds +1 Unity output to the job.
Entertainer	Specialist	+2 Unity +10 Amenities	−1 Consumer Goods	4		It is said there are two types of lifeforms in the galaxy; the entertainers, and the entertained.
Gas Refiner	Specialist	+2 Exotic Gases	−10 Minerals	4		Managing the complex chain of reactions required to refine gas from minerals effectively requires advanced machinery and highly-trained experts.
Manager	Specialist	+2 Society Research +3 Unity +2 Trade Value	−2 Consumer Goods	4	Corporate authority	The endless struggle to balance conflicting demands from the middle of the managerial hierarchy is envied by few.
Medical Worker	Specialist	+5 Amenities +5% Pop Growth Speed	−1 Consumer Goods	4		A micro-unit of prevention is worth a macro-unit of cure. Sometimes, however, both are needed.
Metallurgist	Specialist	+3 Alloys	−6 Minerals	4		Highly trained workers are needed to turn raw materials into the durable alloys that are used in a wide variety of advanced construction.
Priest	Specialist	+2 Society Research +3 Unity +5 Amenities	−2 Consumer Goods	4	Spiritualist	The spiritual guidance of the masses is performed by the most pious and devout. Exalted Priesthood civic adds +1 Unity output to the job.
Researcher	Specialist	+4 Research Output	−2 Consumer Goods	4		The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. Technocracy civic adds +1 Unity output to the job.
Roboticist	Specialist	+2 Monthly Pop Assembly	−6 Minerals	4		These technicians build robots, that the robots may build for the nation. Synthetic Evolution ascension perk adds the job to all capital buildings and gives it highest priority.
Telepath	Specialist	+3 Unity −35 Crime	−1 Energy	4	Mind over Matter ascension perk	Members of the Psi-Corps, a unit of psionically-gifted crime fighters. Police State civic adds +1 Unity output to the job. Only species with the Psionic trait can take the job.
Translucer	Specialist	+2 Rare Crystals	−10 Minerals	4		These specialists transform minerals into rare crystals in a laboratory environment.
Clerk	Worker	+2 Trade Value +2 Amenities	N/A	6		White-collar workers perform the various administrative office tasks that are crucial to any sufficiently complex working environment.
Crystal Miner	Worker	+2 Rare Crystals	N/A	5		Specialist miners are employed for the careful extraction and refinement of rare crystals.
Farmer	Worker	+6 Food	N/A	5		Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. Agrarian Idyll civic adds +2 Amenities output to the job.
Gas Extractor	Worker	+2 Exotic Gases	N/A	5		Advanced hydraulic fracking methods are employed by Gas Extractors in order to free rare, exotic gases from promising rockbeds.
Miner	Worker	+4	N/A	5		With modern power drills and other advanced tools, mining may not be the back-breaking profession it once was, but it is still far from easy. Mining Guilds civic adds +1 output to the job.
Mote Harvester	Worker	+2 Volatile Motes	N/A	5		One of the most dangerous professions, mote harvesting involves trapping and sealing volatile motes to be used as fuel or explosives.
Prosperity Preacher	Worker	+1 Unity +3 Amenities +3 Trade Value	N/A	5	Gospel of the Masses civic	Prosperity Preachers spread the good word to the masses that they, too, can prosper, if only they will part with a small donation to the cause. Added only by the Temple of Prosperity Branch Office building
Soldier	Worker	+4 Naval Capacity +3 Planetary Defense Armies	N/A	3		Military professionals are needed to train a steady stream of new recruits for army and naval operations. Citizen Service civic adds +2 Unity output to the job. Martial Law decision modifier adds +5 Stability output to the job.
Technician	Worker	+4 Energy	N/A	5		Power plants require plenty of warm bodies to operate equipment and oversee operations. Synthetic Evolution ascension perk civic adds +2 Energy output to the job.
Livestock	Slave	+4 Food −0.50 Pop Housing Usage	N/A	7	Livestock slavery	They have but one purpose: to become food for their betters.
Overseer	Slave	−25 Crime +25 Happiness +2 Planetary Defense Armies	N/A	6	Thrall World	These relatively privileged slaves keep their less fortunate brethren in line.
Servant	Slave	+4 Amenities −0.75 Pop Housing Usage	N/A	7	Domestic Servitude slavery Servitude AI policy	Servants perform various menial domestic tasks and household work for their masters.
Toiler	Slave	+2 Amenities	N/A	7	Thrall World	Toilers perform the grueling menial labor required to keep the crude infrastructure of the Thrall-World running.

Gestalt Consciousness[edit]

Gestalt Consciousness empires have only two main strata. Unlike individualist empires, drones can promote and demote in stratum immediately.

Job	Stratum	Produces	Upkeep	Government	Default Priority	Description
Agri-Drone	Menial Drone	+6 Food +5 Food	N/A	Hive Mind Machine Intelligence	5	Food Production requires a variety of workers, from operator of planting and harvesting machinery, to watering, ferilizer and pesticide systems managers, to livestock handlers.
Crystal Mining Drone	Menial Drone	+2 Rare Crystals	−1 Energy	Hive Mind Machine Intelligence	5	Miner specialized in carefully extracting and refining rare crystals from geological formations.
Gas Extraction Drone	Menial Drone	+2 Exotic Gases	−1 Energy	Hive Mind Machine Intelligence	5	These specialized drones employ advanced hydraulic fracking methods to free rare, exotic gases from promising rockbeds.
Maintenance Drone	Menial Drone	+4 Amenities	N/A	Hive Mind Machine Intelligence	5	The machinery and structure that serve the needs of the machine intelligence must be constantly maintained. As must other drones.
Mining Drone	Menial Drone	+4 Minerals	N/A	Hive Mind Machine Intelligence	5	Equipped with modern power drills and advanced machinery, these drones extract and prepare valuable minerals for industrial, military and consumer use.
Mote Harvesting Drone	Menial Drone	+2 Volatile Motes	−1 Energy	Hive Mind Machine Intelligence	5	Due to the inherently volatile nature of preternatural motes, the drones who specialize in trapping and harvesting them have a high turnover rate.
Tech-Drone	Menial Drone	+4 Energy +6 Energy	N/A	Hive Mind Machine Intelligence	5	The machinists, operators, and technicians who manage and oversee power plant operations.
Warrior Drone	Menial Drone	+4 Naval Capacity +3 Planetary Defense Armies	N/A	Hive Mind Machine Intelligence	3	Military Experts who specialize in the training of new army drones and naval crew.
Brain Drone	Complex Drone	+4 Research Output	−6 Minerals	Hive Mind	4	Scientists, researchers, and inventors: Brain Drones are responsible for the technological development of the nation.
Calculator	Complex Drone	+4 Research Output	−6 Minerals	Machine Intelligence	4	Endlessly processing equtations, probabilities, and testing new functions, Calculators lead the technological development of the Machine Intelligence.
Chem-Drone	Complex Drone	+2 Volatile Motes	−10 Minerals	Hive Mind Machine Intelligence	4	Rather than maintain systems of mote traps, Chem-Drones distill volatile motes directly from minerals through a series of complex chemical processes.
Coordinator	Complex Drone	+1 Research Output +3 Unity +1% Menial Drone Output	−3 Energy	Machine Intelligence	2	Signals to and from the Core must be amplified, boosted, and cleaned of static and data corruption.
Fabricator	Complex Drone	+4 Alloys	−8 Minerals	Machine Intelligence	4	Valuable minerals are processed into durable s for naval development and advanced construction by highly-specialized Fabricators.
Foundry Drone	Complex Drone	+3 Alloys	−6 Minerals	Hive Mind	4	Valuable minerals are processed into durable alloys for naval development and advanced construction by highly-specialized Foundry Drones.
Hunter-Seeker Drone	Complex Drone	+1 Unity −20 Deviancy +2 Planetary Defense Armies	N/A	Hive Mind Machine Intelligence	4	Deviancy and function corruption that threatens the stability of the collective must be remedied.
Lensing Drone	Complex Drone	+2 Rare Crystals	−10 Minerals	Hive Mind Machine Intelligence	4	Those rare crystals that cannot be found can be manufactured via translucing instead. Lensing Drones specialize in just that.
Refinery Drone	Complex Drone	+2 Exotic Gases	−10 Minerals	Hive Mind Machine Intelligence	4	The management and operation of exotic gas refineries is handled by these drones.
Replicator	Complex Drone	+1 Monthly Pop Assembly +1 Engineering Research +5 Amenities	−3 Minerals	Machine Intelligence	1	A machine that builds a machine that builds a machine that...
Spawning Drone	Complex Drone	+5 Amenities +25% Pop Growth Speed	−5 Food	Hive Mind	1	By careful management of temperatures, nutrition, and infection prevention, these drones tend to the spawning pools that produce young.
Synapse Drone	Complex Drone	+3 Society Research +3 Unity	−2 Energy −2 Food	Hive Mind	2	The macroscopic embodiment of a synapse, these drones focus on amplifying the overmind's ceaseless messages, and cleaning them of distortions.
Artisan Drone	Complex Drone	+8 Consumer Goods	−8 Minerals	Rogue Servitor	4	A variety of consumer goods and necessities are manufactured by these artisanal drones. Additionally, the occasional aesthetic creation is not entirely without merits.
Bio-Trophy	Bio-Trophy	+2 Unity +0.2% Complex Drone Output	−1 Consumer Goods	Rogue Servitor	1	Sheltered from harm, suffering, and even their own self-destructive tendencies, Bio-Trophies wants for nothing: their every need tended to and provided for by a team of tireless servitors. Their only job is to be themselves.
Grid Amalgamated	Slave	+4 Energy	N/A	Machine Intelligence	1	Their organic energy will be absorbed, until they expire.

Special jobs[edit]

Unemployed[edit]

Pops that do not have a Job, either because none is available or because their Stratum is higher than that of available Jobs, are Unemployed. Unemployed Pops produce the following:

Living standards	Output
Any other	−20% Happiness
Social Welfare	+1 Unity
Shared Burden	+1 Unity
Utopian Abundance	+1 Unity +2 Research
Drone	+1 Minerals
Mandatory Pampering	−80% Happiness

Purging[edit]

Pops that have the Undesirable Stratum due to being purged produce the following as they decline:

Purge	Output
Displacement	−30% Happiness
Neutering	−20% Happiness
Extermination	−1000% Happiness
Forced Labor	−1000% Happiness +3 Food +3 Minerals
Processing	−1000% Happiness +6 Food if pop is Biological +3 Alloys if pop is Robot ( Devouring Swarm) +2 Society Research ( Devouring Swarm)
Chemical Processing	−1000% Happiness +6 Energy

Subversive Jobs[edit]

High Crime, Deviancy or Unemployment can create planet modifiers that add Subversive Jobs. All Subversive Jobs have negative output.

Job	Output	Requirements	Description
Criminal	−1 Trade Value	Criminal-related planet modifier	These criminals live outside the bounds of legal society, some by choice and some by circumstances.
Deviant Drone	−1 Energy	Drone Deviancy planet modifier	These deviants no longer obey the Hive Mind.
Corrupt Drone	−1 Energy	Drone Corruption planet modifier	These drones have been corrupted and no longer obey the directives of the core intelligence.

Planetary feature jobs[edit]

Certain Jobs are generated by event Planetary Features.

Job	Stratum	Produces	Upkeep	Planetary Feature	Description
Odd Factory Worker	Worker	+4 Alloys	N/A	Odd Factory	These workers labor in the ancient and mysterious factory of unknown origin. What could go wrong?
Subterranean Liaison Officer	Specialist	+5 Trade Value +3 Amenities −1 Pop Housing Usage	N/A	Subterranean Contact Zone	These officers live underground and work for closer relations and improved trade with the Subterranean Civilization.
Subterranean Contact Drone	Menial Drone	+3 Energy +3 Amenities −1 Pop Housing Usage	N/A	Subterranean Contact Zone	These drones live underground, transferring resources to and from the Subterranean Civilization.
Dimensional Portal Researcher	Specialist	+12 Physics Research +1 Unity ( Technocracy) Additional resources depending on outcome of event	Variable	Portal Research Area	Researchers who risk their very existence and sanity to study the mysteries of the Dimensional Portal.
Dimensional Portal Drone	Complex Drone	+12 Physics Research Additional resources depending on outcome of event	Variable	Portal Research Area	Drones at risk of destruction or subversion which study the mysteries of the Dimensional Portal.

Primitive[edit]

Primitive civilizations use the same strata system as normal empires but their jobs provide negligible output.

Job	Stratum	Produces	Requirements	Description
Feudal Noble	Ruler	+3 Amenities +1 Unity	Bronze Age - Steam Age	The landed nobility rule from their stone castles and keeps.
Bureaucrat	Ruler	+3 Amenities +1 Unity	Industrial Age - Early Space Age	Many early industrialist and post-industrialist societies are governed by an ever-expanding class of civil servants.
Cleric	Specialist	+2 Amenities +1 Unity	Bronze Age - Steam Age	Spiritual leaders and preachers who conduct religious ceremonies and oversee all matters concerning faith.
Priest	Specialist	+2 Amenities +1 Unity	Industrial Age - Early Space Age	Religious leaders who occupy various priestly offices.
Scholar	Specialist	+1 Research Output	Bronze Age - Steam Age	The learned of this society, often relying on oral tradition to pass knowledge between generations.
Researcher	Specialist	+1 Research Output	Industrial Age - Early Space Age	Researchers employing scientific methodology to advance the rapidly expanding knowledge base of their civilization.
Warrior	Specialist	+3 Planetary Defense Armies	Bronze Age - Steam Age	Members of a primitive warrior class. These fighters rely on bladed weapons, spears or various blunt instruments to see them through combat.
Soldier	Specialist	+3 Planetary Defense Armies	Industrial Age - Early Space Age	Professional Soldiers, typically armed with early projectile weapons powered by exothermic combustion.
Peasant	Worker	+2 Food	Bronze Age - Steam Age	The peasants toil endlessly in the fields, so that those perceived as their betters might prosper.
Farmer	Worker	+3 Food	Industrial Age - Early Space Age	These farmers work the land, typically with the help of primitive but effective farming equipment.
Miner	Worker	+3 Minerals	Industrial Age - Early Space Age	Dangerous and sometimes lethal work in the dark bowels of the planet.
Technician	Worker	+1 Energy	Industrial Age - Early Space Age	These technicians shuffle coal or maintain primitive nuclear generators.
Laborer	Worker	+2 Consumer Goods −2 Minerals	Steam Age - Early Space Age	These early industrial laborers toil away in factories, which can now be operated day and night thanks to recent advances in electricity.
Hunter-Gatherer	Worker	+1 Food +1 Amenities	Stone Age	These semi-nomadic primitives survive by foraging and hunting. There is evidence of early tool use.
Scavenger	Worker	+1 Food +1 Minerals +1 Consumer Goods	Junkheap capital building	They scurry amongst the scrapyards, collecting discarded machinery and ancient electronics for repurposing.

Fallen empires[edit]

Fallen empires use a special set of high-output jobs that have no upkeep.

Job	Produces	Fallen Empire	Description
Overseer	+5 Stability +10 Amenities	Keepers of Knowledge Enigmatic Observers Xenophobic Isolationists	The stalwart few who have rejected lives of luxury in favor of public service. It is up to them to oversee and guide the remnants of their ancient civilization.
Sky Cardinal	+5 Stability +10 Amenities	Holy Guardians	And it was there, in the sky, that the future was born. The light was blinding, but a few could see past it. They took it upon themselves to lead others forwards.
Protector	−25 Crime +3 Defense Armies	Keepers of Knowledge Enigmatic Observers Holy Guardians Xenophobic Isolationists	So that the majority can sleep peacefully and enjoy their lives of extravagance, these rough individuals stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do them harm.
Archivist	+5 Research	Keepers of Knowledge	Each data fragment must be filed, cataloged and indexed exactly according to the ancient rites as they were established eons ago by the First Librarian.
Acolyte of the Hyperspanner	+6 Energy	Holy Guardians	Remember also the hyperspanner, and how it was used by Bazagg the Shining to tame the sun when it seemed like darkness would overtake the world.
Acolyte of the Hammer	+6 Minerals	Holy Guardians	And with one mighty blow, Saint Mazakudal used her burning hammer to split the skull of the First Wraith in two, opening up the path to the crystals.
Acolyte of the Plow	+8 Food	Holy Guardians	For was it not the plow, this most noble of instruments, that Kazargiel used to sever the poisonous tail of the thrice-cursed demon and stave off famine?
Augur of the Shroud	+10 Unity	Holy Guardians	It speaks, but not in words. To divine any kind of meaning, one must hover on the precipice of madness.
Acolyte of the Workshop	+3 Amenities +2 Consumer Goods	Holy Guardians (unemployed)	And so Aznakha said to the acolytes, "go to the workshops, and form with your own crafts the future you seek."
Xeno-Keeper	+10 Amenities −20 Crime +2 Defense Armies	Enigmatic Observers	These precursor zookeepers look after the needs of the Xeno-Wards under their care.
Xeno-Ward	+2 Unity	Enigmatic Observers (Primitives stratum)	These specimens have been gathered here, in settings that approximate their natural environments, to ensure the preservation of their species in an often chaotic and destructive galaxy.
Hedonist	+2 Unity	Keepers of Knowledge (unemployed) Enigmatic Observers (unemployed) Xenophobic Isolationists (unemployed)	A life of total opulence, where every possible material need or desire can be satisfied.
Guardian	−25 Crime +3 Defense Armies	Ancient Caretakers	These ancient machines maintain a ceaseless vigil over the long-expired remains of billions of cyrogenically frozen sapients.
Caretaker	+5 Amenities	Ancient Caretakers (unemployed)	These ancient machines tirelessly maintain and repair the decaying machinery of the ringworld on which they reside.