Best Criminal Career In GTA Online

For players who are just starting out in GTA Online, you can grab access to the Criminal Enterprise Starter Pack, which allows you to start a new character and get $4,000,000. However, this $4,000,000 needs to be built to build into your new Criminal Career, and as such, you’re going to want to know how you should spend it wisely to get the best start possible in GTA Online.

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Below, we’ve outlined the best Criminal Enterprise career builder choices so you can make money fast in GTA Online, and see the benefits to each of them. While we’ve listed the best Criminal Enterprise to pick, we’ve also gone ahead and given explanations to each of them so you know how each of them works before making a final decision.

Best Criminal Enterprise Starter in GTA Online

The best Criminal Career is split between the Nightclub and the Gunrunner, as both have incredible uses. However, solo players might prefer the Nightclub, and those who play with friends might want to check out the Gunrunner. We’ll explain why both are useful below:

Why You Should Pick the Nightclub As Your Criminal Career

• Passive income of $50K every 48 minutes
• Owning other businesses allows Warehouse Technicians to acquire stock passively to be sold for profit
• Allows you to buy the Terrobyte for a discount on the Oppressor Mk2 and its upgrades

As a Nightclub Owner, you can make a passive income of $50,000 every 48 minutes if you keep your popularity high. This is easily achieved inside your Nightclub by kicking out troublemakers or by delivering VIPs to their homes. However, the Nightclub has further profit opportunities that unlock when you have more businesses under your belt, as you can use your Technicians to acquire stock for your businesses and sell them for a profit.

The Nightclub is a great endgame investment, especially when you can get the Terrorbyte, which is necessary for a discount and upgrades on the Oppressor Mk2. For solo players, the Nightclub is a great start, as it’s where most of your businesses will sync into in the endgame, but the fact that you can run off for other grinding tasks while the Nightclub passively accumulates money and stock is a great bonus that won’t keep you tied to it.

Why You Should Pick the Gunrunner As Your Criminal Career

• Deliver a vehicle to Ammu-Nation every 48 minutes for $50K
• Research projects with stock for weapon and weaponized vehicle upgrades
• Acquire stock to make product, which you can sell for profit
• Allows you to buy the Mobile Operations Center (MOC) to purchase high-level weapons at Rank 1, and get Mk2 weapons

The Gunrunner Business is a lot more time-consuming and work-heavy than the Nightclub, but it’s a great Criminal Career to invest in if you love the grind. Gunrunners will have access to a Bunker, and in the Bunker, you can acquire supplies via missions or purchase them, which can then be used to research projects for weapon upgrades or turned into products to be sold at a high profit. You’ll also have excess parts created every 48 minutes, which can be delivered to Ammu-Nation for $50,000.

While none of the profit is passive, and it all requires some level of work and asset juggling to stay on top of, it’s still a very good business to start out with. The added bonus of the Gunrunner business is that you can purchase an MOC with a Weapons Workshop, which will grant you access to weapons that would be locked behind level requirements, and you can even upgrade to Mk2 variants to change weapon stats and ammo types.

Executive Criminal Career, Explained in GTA Online

Is the Executive Career Worth It?

• Lead a skyscraping criminal empire. Employ other players as Bodyguards and fund your opulent lifestyle by trading contraband.

The Executive Criminal Career allows you to become a CEO in public and private sessions. Being a CEO is needed to host Heists and other business ventures. With the Executive Criminal Career, you will have your own Office that can be used as a hub to purchase warehouses to obtain cargo, which can be sold for stock, and it’s a career you’ll have to grind for to make money.

We don’t recommend the Executive Criminal Career, as although it’s nice to have the ability to be a CEO, becoming a VIP does the same thing. However, a VIP status lasts 4 hours and has a cooldown of 12 hours. Still, this can be countered if you save $1,000,000 from your Criminal Enterprise Starter Pack and simply buy a cheap Office to become a CEO. The money grinding of an Executive can get tiresome pretty quickly, and with the requirements needed ot make this career profitable. It’s definitely a career to keep on the back burner.

Gunrunner Criminal Career, Explained in GTA Online

Is the Gunrunner Career Worth It?

• Make your fortune in the illegal arms trade, manufacturing military-grade weapons from your underground Bunker.
• Best Bunker: Chumash Bunker ($1,650,000)

The Gunrunner Criminal Career provides you with a Bunker. The Bunker can be used to research weapon upgrades or to generate stock to be sold for a maximum of $700,000 when full. The projects you can research with supplies consist of different ammo types for Mk II weapons, along with other gun upgrades and vehicle enhancements from Warstock Cache.

We recommend the Gunrunner Bunker for new players, as every 48 minutes, the Bunker will have a delivery truck that can be taken to Ammu-Nation for an easy profit of $50,000. It’s a simple gameplay loop that you can accumilate while AFK, as it consists of sourcing supplies, building products with said supplies, and selling them for profit. The Bunker also unlocks the ability to purchase an MOC, which can be upgraded with the Vehicle & Weapons Workshop to upgrade weaponized vehicles and purchase weapons that have Level restrictions, allowing you to get the Heavy Sniper and Combat MG as early as Rank 1.

Nightclub Owner Criminal Career, Explained in GTA Online

Is the Nightclub Career Worth It?

• Open a nightclub and turn it into the hottest party in town, while using it as a front for managing your shadier income sources. Ideal for anyone looking to expand their business empire in the future.
• Best Nightclub: Downtown Vinewood ($1,670,000)

The Nightclub Owner Criminal Career allows you to be the owner of your very own Nightclub, which is co-run by Tony Prince. As a Nightclub Owner, you can earn a passive income of $50,000 every 48 real-time minutes which can be obtained via your wall safe within your office, so long as you keep your Nightclub popularity full by delivering VIPs to their homes or by kicking out troublemakers, which are both extremely simple and fast tasks that take no more than 2 minutes of your time.

For new players, we definitely recommend the Nightclub due to the passive income of $50,000, as this is a guaranteed way to earn money while you’re off grinding other tasks. The Nightclub also allows you to purchase the Terrorbyte, which can be used to upgrade the Oppressor Mk2. You can also combine the Nightclub with other businesses by using Warehouse Technicians to source stock, which is collected passively over time, and can be sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, but this part does require plenty of in-game time and businesses for the endgame.

Biker Criminal Career, Explained in GTA Online

Is the Biker Career Worth It?

• Form a Motorcycle Club with up to seven other players. Hit the road, carry out deadly contracts, and run black market businesses statewide.

The Biker Criminal Career will allow you to own a Clubhouse, which you can use to register as an MC President. As an MC President, you can purchase other MC Businesses to make passive money, like Counterfeit Cash Factories, Meth Labs, and Cocaine Lockups. While these businesses are great in the long run, they require too much of an initial investment, and as an early player, you’re not going to have the finances to support this business.

We do not recommend using the Biker Career, simply because it’s too expensive and requires too much work for new players. The legitimate work that comes with the Clubhouse doesn’t pay much, and the whole point of a Clubhouse is to expand into other businesses, which are funded with stock that can then be sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars with full product. This is endgame grinding, and something to come back to when you have the money.

Released

October 1, 2013

ESRB

M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Mature Humor, Nudity, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Use of Drugs and Alcohol

Developer(s)

Rockstar North

Engine

Rockstar Advanced Game Engine