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The '''Hacker''' [[Career Track]] comes with ''[[The Sims: Livin' Large]]''. It is notable for having one of the most severely bent (not steepest) pay curvecurves of any career in the whole game or any of its expansion packs;. atAt rank 1, itonly pays8 bettercareer tracks pay more than '''Entertainment'''Hacker, or8 '''Propay Athlete'''less, and on3 parpay withthe '''Business''',same. but byBy rank 4, ithowever, Hacker has fallen behind allALL three to becomeof the second-lowest-paying career intracks from the wholebase game orand anymost offrom itsthe expansions, behindwith only '''Slacker''', '''Culinary''', '''Education''', and '''Circus''' paying less. The pay then sharply accelerates, and it spends its final fewfive ranks as the highest-paying career track in the whole game or any of its expansions. It also has the highest ''combined'' pay over all ten ranks (§6470). Requiring only 8 friends to reach rank 10, it alsois enjoysthe bysecond-easiest farcareer track to climb (behind '''Fashion''' and in a four-way tie with '''Military''', '''Animal Care''', and Circus), and also enjoys the best ratio of pay to friends required ($§1550/8 friends = $§193.75/friend), with only Fashion coming close. In short, it is undoubtedly either the best or second-best career track in the game. However, even its rank 10 job, Information Overlord, only pays §172 per hour, whereas crafting [[Garden gnome|lawn gnomes]] on a [[Woodworking table|workbench]] pays §200 per hour at maximum Mechanical skill.