Jobs & Earning — Project Lazarus Life Wiki

How Jobs Work

Open the Jobs Department app on your phone — or press USE on the Jobs Department NPC in person — and pick a career. There are six active jobs, and you can only hold one at a time.

Active careers

Levels per job

5 min

Cooldown to switch

Wages are multiplied by a payout booster (roughly ×2 by default, and higher with VIP), so a job pays out a good deal more than the raw task value suggests.

Getting Paid

Every job follows the same loop: finish the task in the marked area out in the world, then return to the Jobs Department to hand it in. Handing in is mandatory — nothing pays until you do.

Hand it in — pay and XP go to your bankYou are not paid on the spot. Once you hand the task in at the Jobs Department, both your pay AND your XP go straight into your bank — not your pocket. Walk away without handing in and you get nothing.

You can also post your own tasks for other players to complete. It costs money up front (and is taxed), and whoever does the work is paid in physical cash.

The Six Jobs

Each career feeds a different part of the economy. The gathering jobs (Hunter, Miner, Lumberjack, Delivery) supply the crafting chains.

Job	What it yields	Unlocks by level
Hunter	Hunt at the Hunting Grounds for leather & cloth	Tip: the Tiptoe skill stops animals attacking first
Miner	Work the mining sites for stone & ore — ore feeds the smelting chain	Coal Level 10 · Copper Level 15 · Titanium Ore Level 30
Lumberjack	Work the logging camps for logs	Pine Level 5 · Birch Level 10 · Oak Level 15
Taxi	Cash for ferrying passengers around the map	—
Delivery	Cash, plus Diesel — the fuel a recycler needs to run	Diesel from Level 5
Police	An earnable role — no tasks; income from arrests & patrols	Needs 10 hrs + $10k — see Police

Diesel is the hidden keyLogs, ore and other raw resources are processed at a recycler — and a recycler needs Diesel to run. Diesel comes from the Delivery job. Many new players get stuck here without realising why.

XP, Levels & Rewards

Every task you finish grants XP toward a 30-level curve. Levelling up unlocks better harvest tiers (the higher-value materials in the table above) and hands out reward kits, backpacks and loot crates at set milestones. Claim those rewards from the jobs menu.

The Police career is the odd one out — it has no tasks or harvest tiers. It's a role with its own rank ladder, and its income comes from arrests, checkpoints, patrols and heists. Read all about it on the Police & Prison page.

Switching Jobs

Switching is safe — your gear is never lostChanging jobs — including joining the Police — no longer kills you or drops your inventory. Becoming an officer simply stores your civilian gear safely and hands you a police loadout; you get everything back when you clock off. Swap with confidence.

There's a 5-minute cooldown between job swaps, so choose deliberately.
Your job level and rewards are saved per career — switching back later doesn't wipe your progress.