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[[File:Sims career path pay curves.png|thumb|400px200px|The pay curves may not have a clear hierarchy from best to worst, but they do have a clear best and a clear worst.]]

In the base game, career tracks that had the highest pay at rank 1 had the lowest pay at rank 10, and vice versa. The '''Slacker'''slacker career path upended that expectation by having the lowest pay in ''every single rank out of all 15 career paths that existed at that point''. In return, the hours were generally shorter, giving the Sim more time to build friendships, clean up around the house, piss on the floor, or do whatever they would rather be doing than working. However, reaching rank 10 required more friends (15) than any other career track except '''Politics'''[[politics]] and '''Paranormal'''[[paranormal]], so all that extra free time typically got wasted on inviting the neighbors over and chatting with them for hours just to get promoted. Later, the '''[[The Sims: Unleashed']]'' expansion would add two career paths ('''Culinary'''[[culinary]] and '''Circus'''[[circus]]) whose severely bent pay curves dipped below that of the Slackerslacker; however, Slackerslacker's pay curve was still the lowest and flattest overall. Out of all 20 real careers from ''The Sims 1'' and its expansion packs, Slackerslacker also has the absolute worst ratio of pay to friends required to reach rank 10 ($600/15 friends = 40), making it the least rewarding career track to climb. Only Politicspolitics even comes close ($750/17 friends = 44.1).