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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 8927017" data-attributes="member: 463">20% non tax payers: this include people too poor to pay taxes, criminals, children etc50% poor: their income is 2 sp/day20% modest: income is 1 gp/day8% comfortable: 2 gp/day1% wealthy: 4 gp/day1% aristocratic: 10 gp/day.I think having 30% of the population operating in the 'gold piece economy' is very high for an ancient or medieval type setting, but works for a setting like Eberron (it might work for an exceptionally wealthy fantasy city state, too). And you seem to have hardly any children. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f606.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":LOL:" title="Laugh    :LOL:"  data-smilie="17"data-shortname=":LOL:" /> From what I recall of Roman empire economics, typical daily income was around £25 per day equivalent. I use 1 sp = £10 so that's around 2sp-3sp average income. That's about what I use. I tend to use the BECMI rules as a base for dominon stuff, with a typical farming family of 5 on good land having a family income of 1gp/day.</blockquote>