What type of benefit package do you think Jedi Knights got?

[Umbran]

The one that comes to my mind is Obi Wan's starfighter. The media all identities it as his personal ship.

Isn't Obi-Wan Wan not fairly equivalent to 007? He's given a personal vehicle.

Now 007 gets a new one every movie, because he wrecks them and tech advances between films. Obi Wan lives in a culture that has seen little technological change in something like 5000 years, so there's not much need to give him a new ship.

 

[Maxperson]

I mean saving the galaxy over and over again is a pretty thankless job if all you get is a pat on the back. You would think that over the millennia they were around that there would have some version of compensation. I mean they never mention getting any sort of salary. Although we could be wrong, and they could fall under some governement scheme in regards to pay. Obviously they are highly skilled so one would think that would command a pretty premium set up. Great health benefits with low or no deductables, dental, vision. Some sort of solid pension plan of sorts. Or maybe each one of them got their own planet. I mean there are enough of them around to hand out like candy. They don't have kids in the later parts of their exsistance, so anything family related is out. You think they get company planes? Then again maybe the Jedi were penny pinchers and really held onto their credits. For all we know Yoda was in charge and he picked the cheapest options on everything. I mean just look at his retirement home....not worth 900 years of service for sure.

You get to live forever in the force! The movies didn't show us the other 10,000,000 Jedi force ghosts watching everything happen.

 

[Whisper-Kitten]

You get to live forever in the force! The movies didn't show us the other 10,000,000 Jedi force ghosts watching everything happen.

If you go by the prequels that was a later discovery by Qui Gon. Which is weird because for the most part Lucas was happy to keep contiunity with the extended universe, but this is one instance where he didn't. Sounds like that would be a lot of peeping toms as well.

 

[Maxperson]

If you go by the prequels that was a later discovery by Qui Gon. Which is weird because for the most part Lucas was happy to keep contiunity with the extended universe, but this is one instance where he didn't. Sounds like that would be a lot of peeping toms as well.

Supposedly he learned about it from a group of force priestesses and/or someone called the Shaman of Whills.

 

[MarkB]

If you go by the prequels that was a later discovery by Qui Gon. Which is weird because for the most part Lucas was happy to keep contiunity with the extended universe, but this is one instance where he didn't. Sounds like that would be a lot of peeping toms as well.

Maybe plenty of previous Jedi had mastered it, but they just didn't want to hang out with Yoda.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I'm pretty sure Count Dooku was both a Count (with significant personal holdings) and a Jedi at some point in his career, though in that case those holdings didn't come from his Jedi vocation.

In general, though, yeah pretty sure the ones raised from babies in the Jedi order never really acquire any personal possessions of their own.

It is stated in the novelisations that Dooku gave up his hereditary title and holdings whilst he was a Jedi.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Isn't Obi-Wan Wan not fairly equivalent to 007? He's given a personal vehicle.

Now 007 gets a new one every movie, because he wrecks them and tech advances between films. Obi Wan lives in a culture that has seen little technological change in something like 5000 years, so there's not much need to give him a new ship.

Obi Wan gets through a fair few ships, especially if you watch TCW. So does Ahsoka. Anakin notably bends the rules by hanging on to the tramp freighter he liberated in TCW pilot episode, although he also crashes lots of other ships.

Also in TCW, when Ahsoka resigns from the Jedi order, she has nothing. The first thing she has to do is find any job she can.