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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Harold Mayo" data-source="post: 705050" data-attributes="member: 10361">I have tried for many years to try and make a realistic wage scale for my world but have never really been able to do so.  I end up just winging it.Isn't 5 silver a week for a private and 20 gold a week for a sergeant a little too much of a gap?  I mean, I think a private in the US Army makes $1200-$1600 a month or something like that, plus room and board and uniforms and stuff while a sergeant will only make $300 or $400 more a month.  Those are ball-park figures, anyway.  The above example is like saying that a sergeant in the real world should make about $40,000 a month.</blockquote>