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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6511248" data-attributes="member: 4937">Most D&D games have a gold piece standard, that is to say, most anything you would buy is priced in gold pieces.  I'm not that familiar with 4e, but from what I do know, it continues to use the standard D&D gold based pricing.In that case, a common unskilled laborer demands wages of about 1 g.p. per day.  A skilled laborer - such as an experienced sailor - demands wages of about 2 g.p. per day.   Skilled laborers with specialized skills, education, or rare skills will generally be able to fetch about 3 g.p. per day.  Skilled laborers in a managerial role or of a high or aristocratic station will generally fetch about 4-5 g.p. per day.   As a general rule, it's not unreasonable to expect an employee to demand a wage of at least 1 g.p. per level that they have - although 4e messes this up somewhat with minions, elites, and so forth.I'm not sure what you count as a 'small sailing ship', so I can't tell you exactly what division you are likely to have between skilled and unskilled.My PC's are currently aboard the Corvette 'Valiant', which is a ship rigged sailing vessel that is 110' long and has a crew of 105.  That crew breaks down as follows:24 marines: 2 coins per day1 Sergeant of Arms: 3 coins per day15 unskilled sailors: 1 coin per day45 able bodied sailors: 2 coins per day15 petty officers: 3 coins per day1 Ensign: Essentially an apprenticeship, he doesn't draw pay1 Midshipman: 2 coins per day (also basically an apprentice, albeit a skilled one)2 officers: 4 coins per day1 captain: 5 coins per dayTotal: 216 coins per day.Note, in my game everything is priced in silver and gold is rare and valuable treasure, but the general idea of coins = daily wages has historical merit.</blockquote>

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