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=Currency=
Standard 1.0 CF (Conversion Factor)
 $ GURPees              1=€10.0  €*0.10  $*1.00
 £ Alliance Pound       1=€0.21  €*4.80  $*0.48
 ₢ Britannia Crown      1=€1.03  €*0.97  $*0.10
 € Confederate Dollar   1=€1.00  €*1.00  $*0.10
 ₸ Terran Dollar        1=€0.60  €*1.67  $*0.17
 ₥ Mark                 1=€0.71  €*1.40  $*0.14
 ¥ Neo-Yen              1=€0.82  €*1.22  $*0.12
 ₺ Deben (Tharêan)      1=€1.20  €*0.83  $*0.08
 ₾ Chet (Kyahnt)        1=€1.00  €*1.00  $*0.10
To find an equivalent "local" price from one listed in GURPS, multiply by the last column; FREX $100(GURPees) = €10(*.10) or £48(*.48)

=Social Status & Cost of Living:=
Starting Wealth: $40,000 (GURPees)
 -2  Homeless                                               €20
 -1  Poor                                                   €60
  0  Joe Average                                            €120
  1  Research Engineer, Corp Staffer, Gov't Worker, Miner   €600
  2  City Mayor, Multinat Official, Mine Colony Director    €2,400
  3  Planetary Baron, System Governor                       €12,000
  4  Nat'l Bureaucrat, Senator, Min. Media Figure           €120,000
  5  Corp Board Member, Corp CEO                            €1,200,000
  6  Nat'l President, Ambassador to GPO, Maj. Media Figure  €12,000,000
  7  Multinat CEO, GPO President, Top Media Figure          €120,000,000

=Job Table=
From GT106 (may need some tweaking of "prices")
===Poor Jobs===
 '''Job (requirements), Monthly Income                                       Success Roll       Critical Failure'''
 Bouncer at Low Dive (ST 10+), Cr400                                      ST                 LJ, 4d/8d
 Solo Thugger* (Brawling or Weapons skills), $400                         PR                 Arrested/3d
 Starport Panhandler* (Panhandling), Cr300                                PR                 1d/4d
 Street Entertainer* (any one of Bard, Dancing, Musical Instrument,
      or Singing 10+), Cr50 × Skill                                       PR                 -1i

===Struggling Jobs===
 '''Job (requirements), Monthly Income                                       Success Roll       Critical Failure'''
 Actor/Actress* (Acting 10+), Cr50 × Skill                                PR                 -1i/LJ, 1d
 Bouncer at Better-Quality Dive (ST10+, Intimidation), Cr650              Best PR            LJ, 4d/8d
 Ganger (any Combat or Thief/Spy skills), $50XPR                          PR                 arrested/-2d
 General Laborer (ST 10+), Cr550                                          PR                 LJ/5d
 Journalist* (Research 12+, Bard, or Photography 12+), 
     Cr70 × Best PR plus Cr500 × Reputation                               Best PR            -2i/LJ, 2d
 Mechanic/Technician (any Mechanic skill at 12+), Cr120 × skill           PR                 -1i/-1i, LJ, 2d
 Rentacop (Guns 12+), $750                                                vision roll        LJ/-3d
 Roadie (ST 10+), Cr650                                                   PR                 -1i/LJ
 Ronin* (Any Combat skill 15+), $800                                      PR                 -2d, arrested/-6d
 Sales Clerk (Merchant 10+), Cr600                                        PR + Reaction      LJ
 Security Guard (any combat skill at 10+, ST 10+), Cr600                  PR                 -1i, LJ/LJ, 4d
 Terrorist: fanatic (Demolitions, Psychology, Traps 12+), $500            Worst PR           -2d/-5d, arrested
 Translator (two additional languages at 12+), Cr100 × skill              Best PR-2          -2i/-3i, LJ

===Average Jobs===
 '''Job (requirements), Monthly Income                                       Success Roll       Critical Failure'''
 Bodyguard (ST 11+, one combat skill at 12+), Cr90 × IQ                   ST                 -1i, LJ/-1i, LJ, 4d
 Data analyst (Research 12+), $100 per point of Research                  PR                 -1i/-3i
 Korpkop (IQ 11+, Guns 12+), $1,000 + $75 per year of service             IQ                 -3d/LJ
 Korp merc (any 3 Combat skills 13+), $100 X worst PR                     Worst PR           -5d/LJ
 Lab Assistant/Tech Worker (Computer Operation 10+,
     Research 11+, any Science skill 10+), Cr100 × worst PR-6             Worst PR           -2i/LJ, 2d
 Line military (Enlisted) (Guns 14+, Karate 12+, Knife 12+), $1,000       Guns               -2i/-4d
 Local Law Enforcement: Patrol (Law Enforcement, Streetwise,
     and Criminology 12+), Cr75 × best PR                                 Worst PR           -3i, 2d/LJ, 4d
 Low-level Spy (Fast-Talk, Research, and Stealth), Cr100 × Worst PR       Worst PR           4d, LJ/Jailed
 Mercenary Trooper (any two combat skills 10+), Cr100 × Best PR           Best PR-2          -2i, 4d/8d, LJ
 Metrocop (Streetwise 12+, Guns 12+), $1,100                              Worst PR           LJ/-5d
 Private Detective (Law Enforcement, Research,
     and Streetwise 12+), Cr75 × best PR                                  Worst PR           -3i, 2d/LJ, 4d
 Prospector/Belter* (Prospecting 10+), Cr100 × Skill                      Prospecting        -3i, 1d/LJ, 3d
 Salaryman (any Professional Skill 12+), $800 + $100 per year of service  PR                 -1i/IJ
 Special ops (Guns 15+, Karate 14+), $1,500                               Worst PR           -2i/-6d
 Starship Crew (Status 0+, appropriate shipboard skill 10+),
     Cr80 × best appropriate skill plus Cr200 × (Rank or Status)          Specific job’s PR   LJ, 2d/LJ, 8d
 Studio Musician (any Musical Instrument 10+), Cr100 × PR                 PR                  LJ
 Triad hitter* (Any combat skill 15+), $1,250                             PR                  -3d/arrested

===Comfortable Jobs===
 '''Job (requirements), Monthly Income                                       Success Roll       Critical Failure'''
 Back-up Musician (any Musical Instrument 12+), Cr100 × PR                PR                  LJ
 Black Marketeer* (Streetwise 12+, Merchant 10+), Cr300 × Worst PR        Streetwise          -3i/-5i, arrested
 Doctor (Physician 13+, Status 0+), Cr350 × PR                            PR                  -3i/-10i, lose license
 Engineer (any Engineer skill at 12+), Cr200 × PR                         PR                  -2i/-4i, LJ
 Lawyer (Law 12+, Status 1+), Cr300 × PR                                  PR                  -2i/-2i, LJ, 2d
 Line zek (Administration 12+), $2,500                                    PR                  demoted to salaryman/LJ
 Local Law Enforcement: Detective (Status 0+, Law Enforcement, Streetwise,
     and Criminology 12+), Cr75 × best PR plus Cr10 × (Status)            Worst PR            -3i, 2d/LJ, 4d
 Mercenary Officer (Rank 1+, any one combat skill, Leadership, and
     Tactics 10+) Cr100 × Skill plus Cr10 × (Rank or Status)              Best PR-2           -2i, 4d/8d, LJ
 Mid-Level Spy (Diplomacy, Intelligence Analysis, and Research), Cr375    Worst PR            -6i/LJ
 Military officer (Leadership 12+, Administration 12+), 
     $1,000 + $1,000 per level of Rank                                    Worst PR            demoted 1 Rank/LJ
 Scientist (Computer Operation 12+, Research 13+, any Science
     skill 14+), Cr300 × best Science skill                               Worst PR            -2i/LJ, 2d
 Starship Officer (Rank 1+, Leadership 10+, appropriate shipboard skill 10+), 
     Cr100 × best appropriate skill plus Cr200 × (Rank or Status)         Specific job’s PR   LJ, 2d/LJ, 8d

===Wealthy Jobs===
 '''Job (requirements), Monthly Income                                       Success Roll       Critical Failure'''
 Broker (Accountant 13+, Streetwise 14+), $10,000                         Worst PR            arrested/-1i, -4d
 Corporate assassin (Stealth 15+, any Weapon skill 15+), $15,000          Worst PR            -1i, arrested/-6d
 Government assassin (Stealth 13+, any Weapon skill 13+), $10,000         Worst PR            -2i1-6d
 Major Corporate Stockholder (Very Wealthy+), Cr50,000                    10                  -2i/-5i, -1 level of Wealth, 2d
 Netrunner (korp) (Cyberdeck Operation 14+), $1,000 x level of skill      PR                  -2i/L1
 Protective services project coordinator (Administration 15+,
     Leadership 13+), $1,500 x worst PR                                   Worst PR            -4d/LJ
 Remittance Man/Woman* (Status 2+), Cr12,000 × Status                     IQ + Status         LJ**
 Rock Star* (Status 2+, Performance 12+), Cr1,500 × Status                PR                  LJ†
 Russki-Yak assassin (Stealth 15+, any two weapon skills 17+), $20,000    Worst PR            -3d/-6d, arrested
 Sensostar* (Sensie Interface 12+), $10,000                               PR                  -3i/-6i
 Splicer (Surgery 11+), $5,000                                            PR                  -1i/arrested
 Terrorist* (Demolitions 14, Traps 14, Psychology 13), $150 x worst PR    PR                  arrested/-6d

===Key to Table===
 PR: Prerequisite; LJ: Lose Job; “d”: dice of damage suffered (the GM may opt to play this out); “i”: months of income lost.
 * Freelance jobs. ** Family loses fortune and the supply of funds is cut off.
 † Musical tastes change or band breaks up over artistic differences.

=Average Prices=
Overall GM note: I decided to shoot for an “Old West” feel for prices, at the CF1 level
===Miscellaneous===
 Cheap Clothing..............................€3
 Fake Leather Jacket........................ €5
 Good Clothing.............................. €10
 Praexian Live Suit (if avail.)..............€30
 Real Leather Jacket........................ €60
 Temp Weapon Permit (/30da)..................€(.50 x CR) /[Pos LC difference] or ×[Neg LC difference]
 Perm Weapon Permit (/yr)....................€(1 x CR) /[Pos LC difference] or ×[Neg LC difference]
 Postal Carrier License......................€50
 Money-Box.................................. €4
 • Xtra Security............................ €8
 • Disguised................................ +€2.50-5
 Cash-Card.................................. €.50+.50 per €1k
 • Xtra Security............................ €1+.50 per €1k
 • Designer..................................+€1
 • "Gold" Unlimited..........................€10
 Silima, unrefined, per ounce................€.85
 Avg. Astrogator's blackbox (avg)............€10,000

===Housing(Hotels, per night)===
 Sleeper Cube................................€1
 Startown, Cheap............................ €3
 Startown, Average.......................... €5
 Cheap...................................... €4
 Average.................................... €8
 First Class................................ €15
 Penthouse.................................. €100
 Average, Xtra Security......................€15
 1st Class, Xtra Security....................€20

===Housing(Apartment/Mortgage, per month)===
 Startown, Cheap............................ €30
 Startown, Average.......................... €50
 Cheap...................................... €40
 Average.................................... €80
 Condominium................................ €150
 Penthouse.................................. €500
 Average, Xtra Security......................€150
 Condominium, Xtra Security..................€200

===Food, Drink, Etc.===
 Meal(Synthetic)............................ €1
 Meal(Real)..................................€2.50
 Meal(Real, Imported)........................€5
 Soft Drink..................................€.1
 Beer........................................€.20-€.50
 Mixed Drink................................ €.60-€1.60
 Wine(Bottle)................................€2-50
 ''Lümpe''...................................... €40
 Cigarettes..................................€.40
 Cigar...................................... €.60-5

===Communication and Information===
 Magazine(Hardcopy)..........................€.50
 E-Mag...................................... €1
 E-Mail(per Meg)............................ €.10
 Planet-Wide Mail (per lb.)..................€.20
 System-Wide Mail (per lb.)..................€.70
 Interstellar Mail (per lb.)................ €.01 per 500Pc
 Interstellar Mail, Express (per lb.)........€.10 per 500Pc
 Internet Access (per hour)..................€1
 • (per month).............................. €6.50
 Long-Distance Call (per minute)............ €.05
 VR Suit, rental (per hour)..................€1
 
===Transportation (Dirtside)===
 Hovertaxi (per 10mi, in city; per 100mi outside city)....€2
 Ground Taxi (per mile).................................. €.20
 Hover Limo (per hour)....................................€10
 Hoverbus (per stop)......................................€.10
 Planetary Flight, Coach, +50lbs .baggage (per 500mi).... €4
 Planetary Flight, 1st Class/cabin, +300lbs (per 500mi).. €7.50
 Bullet Tube (per 1000mi)................................ €15
 Orbital Shuttle, Coach, +50lbs .baggage (per trip)...... €10
 Orbital Shuttle, 1st Class, +50lbs .baggage (per trip).. €20
 Orbital Shuttle, Cargo (per lb.)........................ €.10 (min €2)
 Hovercar Rental (per day)................................€10
 Shuttle Rental (per day)................................ €35

===Transportation (Starside)===
Not including meals.
 Stasis..................................... €25 per system
 Steerage/Bunk...............................€50 per system
 Standard....................................€75 per system
 First Class................................ €100 per system
 Luxury......................................€150 per system
 Add Cargo Space............................ €1 per cy
 Working Passage............................ €0

===Entertainment=== 
 Theatre/Concert............................ €10-50
 Holovid.................................... €2.50
 Arena Game..................................€5-20
 Club Cover-Charge.......................... €1

===Ship Stuff===
 Glop flavor packs, 100 meals................€10

===Elerium-115===
 Fuel Grade (Brin).......................... €150/T (€62/Rod, €557/crate)........331.1T/v

===Starport Tarriffs===
 Berthing Fee.............. €2 x(hull volume in dTons) for the first 6 days, €.20 per day thereafter
 Customs Duties............ 1-6% fair market value of imported goods
 Freight Handling Fee...... €2/v(general); €.40/v(containers); €.10/v(bulk by pipeline); €50 minimum
 Lighterage Fee............ €1/v(surface to orbit); €1.50/v(short-range planetary); €4/v(to jump-point, long-range planetary)
 Port Guide Fee............ €10
 Special Handling.......... +50% total fees
 Starport Fee.............. €50
 Tug Fee....................€.02 x(rated thrust(T))
 Wharf Fee..................€2/v for 30 days, €.20/v per day after

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