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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 curves of any career in the whole game or any of its expansion packs. Out of the twenty career tracks in the base game, '''Livin' Large''', and '''Unleashed''', atAt rank 1, only 8 career tracks pay more than Hacker, 8 pay less, and 3 pay the same. By rank 4, however, itHacker has fallen behind ALL of the career tracks from the base game and most from the expansions, with only '''Slacker''', '''Culinary''', '''Education''', and '''Circus''' paying less. The pay then sharply accelerates, and it spends its final five 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 is also the second-easiest career 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.