How to make money in Cyberpunk 2077 is no easy feat. This guide will show you how to get rich faster. Making money in Cyberpunk 2077 can become very helpful for your success in the endgame and on high difficulties!
Because money talks! And Night City is not any different. In this guide, we talk about what the best sources are to make money so you will always be able to buy that awesome gun you are after.
This guide is spoiler-free when it comes to the story of Cyberpunk 2077. There are a couple of mentions of mission titles, but nothing specific and certainly nothing that will ruin your narrative experience.
Remember when you had to fork out €$15,000 to start the mission “Ghost Town” and you ended up scraping the bottom of your wallet because you had to buy ammo, hyposprays and Cyberware and before you even got to the “Ghost Town” mission you decided to buy that car that you actually did not really need? Yes, that’s life in Night City.
Should you sell your Junk Items
Selling Junk Items can be a lucrative business in Cyberpunk 2077. Especially at the start when money is very tight. Some of the junk is worth quite a lot so when you find junk that is worth €$800 you are going to be very happy.
Don’t worry, since Junk Items are not owned by anyone, no one will come to look for them or fight you for them if you take them from some public place.
If you do decide to sell your junk then do not spec into the perk that automatically disassembles junk, especially not in the early stages of the game. It will destroy all the junk that you could and should sell off to a vendor. And especially at the start when you start out low you will want to sell as much junk as possible.
Junk items are automatically disassembled which is nice except some items are worth keeping around to sell. BUT the real issue is now I can’t read the witty quips on each item and it’s SO frustrating. – Meta, via Reddit.
Should you sell Weapons and other Items
If you are not getting into crafting then do not disassemble your old weapons but sell them instead. It is a good money maker, keep a few epic and legendaries and even the uncommon ones until you find a better weapon and sell the rest. Especially the common weapons.
Also keep in mind that Night City has a lot of Drop Stations placed around the map, these are yellow stations that are marked on your map by a grey box and you can quickly sell your redundant stuff there.
If you do decide to craft then you just loot every item that you can possibly find, spec into automatic disassembly and then open your craft screen and craft as many green items as you can. Find a drop station and sell them there!
Keep in mind that you can also gain materials by using the soda vendors and disassemble those for materials. Crafting also gives you a small amount of Experience Points so that is always nice to have.
Do not pick up the Skill Perk that disassembles automatically Junk items unless you plan to go heavy on Crafting. Junk items can pile up and provide decent income for you in the early game and they all have fun descriptions if you want to read interesting things.
How to earn Eddies from Street Crimes
Sometimes you are cruising in Night City in that car that you did not really need but wanted to get anyway. And you notice a message pop up that says: “Assault in progress” and a message coming from the Night City PD that says: “Read all the Guides on Vulkk.com” and you press Z and you are off to take a look at the crime scene.
Scan the perimeter, always scan! You should see a group of enemies with a yellow marker on their heads and sometimes a yellow marker with a red skull.
If it is a red skull then it simply means that these enemies are way over your current level and it is up to you whether you take them on or not. We would recommend that you just leave the place because the odds that you will get one shot are huge. Another way to discover assaults in progress is looking on the map and you should see a little spiked melee club icon.
Once you decide to engage, just take down the group, which consists of somewhere between four and seven enemies. You take them all down using whatever weapon you have at your disposal and you loot them all. They usually have some Eurodollars on them and a bunch of weapons and junk items are also usually in the vicinity so take all that and use what you can use and sell the rest.
Most of them have a bounty on their heads so you get money from that plus once you complete the mission you will get regular Experience Points, Street Cred and some good money. It is really lucrative business.
And on top of that, the loot may even contain legendary items such as Legendary Mantis Blades or legendary blueprints.
Again, this is a great source for you to make money and also allows you to explore the map a lot more.
How to Hack Terminals in Cyberpunk 2077
You are on a mission and you see a terminal along the way. The terminal asks if you want to jack in and you should. Why? Because hacking these terminals will get you your much needed Eurodollars using your hacking skills. And yes it is hard sometimes to get the highest pay out but you just keep trying.
There is a guide on VULKK.com that explains Breach Protocol in great detail. In short:
Breach Protocol is a hacking minigame that invites you to hack an object using a sequence of letters and numbers to take control of a network. You will need points specced into Intelligence before you can jack in but, trust me, it is well worth it.
You want to spec into the Advanced Datamine perk in Breach Protocolto increase the amount of money you make from Access Points and the first one will get you 50% extra and speccing an extra point into that means the amount will go up by another 50% so effectively giving 100% more.
For more on hacking in Cyberpunk 2077 you can visit the How Hacking works in Cyberpunk 2077: Beginners Guide
Just keep in mind, you can get a few Eurodollars from each terminal and possibly into 1000s of Eurodollar and it will all add up to your Night City bank account.
Earn easy money from Side Jobs and Gigs
The biggest money earner in Cyberpunk 2077! Side jobs are basically side quests that are quite long and have amazing payouts and they are interwoven into characters from the main story so you will get to know them even better. As in: motivations, quirks and background information for instance River. So you want to make some good money then make sure to pick up the phone as soon as it rings.
If you want to make a quick buck and some easier missions then do a few Gigs. Gigs are smaller quests than the Side Jobs but they still pay well. And you can do more of the Gigs in the same amount of time.
Bounty Hunting in Cyberpunk 2077
Bounties are pretty easy and straightforward missions with the game taking you by the hand and directing you to your target. You either kill your target or knock them out and you should get the money right after that.
You won’t actually have to drag your bounty around to some shady person in Night City to complete the mission and get the reward.
A target can have a bounty based on a star rating from one to five. The higher the bounty, the more Street Cred you receive, and the tougher they are to take down. So take a good look at your Data Sheet and check their star rating.
The good thing about Bounties is that they can be found all over the place and will be given to you at a steady pace. And there is no central bureau or anything that you have to go to pick up your target or hand in your bounty. Just complete the mission and the reward should appear in your inventory straight away.
However, new Experience Points, Eurodollars and Street Cred will not appear while you are in combat. The Bounty may be down and out but there could still be other targets lurking around that prevent you from collecting the reward.
So before you think that these are blue milk runs, think again and scour the area for multiple targets and only when all the targets are down and the dust has settled then you can collect. Just weigh off the risks before go head in!
There are also specific hit jobs where you act as a gun-for-hire on a certain target. You can find them on your map by pressing M, and looking for “Job”. Search for a yellow poster of a person behind bars and mouse over it.
You will most likely see “Neutralize Target” which can mean either you subdue the target or you kill them. The map will pinpoint where you can find the target. It is usually the Fixers who hire you for these typical kind of jobs.
The main storyline is a lucrative one
Talk about belaboring the obvious! But yes, the main story also offers a lot of cash as rewards. Just by following the storyline you will earn a lot of money. So if you are on the verge of buying that new piece of Cyberware or found that legendary weapon or iconic gear but you can not afford it yet then just play the next part of the main storyline and who knows the item will still be there when you complete it and go back to the weapons vendor.
How to earn money quick in Cyberpunk 2077
All of the above methods are fine and regular, but if you need money urgently or if you need a lot of money, like for example money to complete the Autojock Achievement, you can follow one simple method – invest in crafting a little bit and unlock the Epic tier of crafting.
Speaking of achievements or as they are called on consoles – trophies, check out the Cyberpunk 2077 Achievements List and Guide.
The method to earn money fast is the same one you would use to level up your crafting skill. You just have to select which one to prioritize.
Craft many Incendiary Epic grenades (the purple ones). Deconstruct them for crafting components. Sell the components to a vendor or a drop point terminal. Note that vendors and terminals reset their budgets every 24 hours, so sell whatever you can, then skip time and sell some more.
Crafting an incendiary Epic (Purple) grenade costs 1 Common and 1 Uncommon crafting components per grenade crafted.
Deconstructing these Incendiary Epic (Purple) grenades would yield you a ton of materials, including Epic ones.
And you even gain small amounts of XP per grenade crafted, which is an added bonus.
To get easy crafting components you can also deconstruct the drinks you can purchase for 10 Eurodollars from the vending machines in Night City. The 10 Eddies ones, not the 5 Eddies. Buy until the machine is sold out and then deconstruct them to get much more and more valuable Common and Uncomon crafting components.
A great location to start is this area in Corpo Plaza in the City Center:
You will need this trick if you want to complete the Autojock and Master Crafter Achievements quick and easy. If you are interested in learning more about the achievements in Cyberpunk 2077, check out the full guide!
If you have more tips & tricks then please comment and the guide can be updated!
