The Crew
50 Achievements
1,000
150-200h
Xbox 360
The Breadwinner
Increase your Daily Salary to 10,000 Bucks.
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How to unlock the The Breadwinner achievement in The Crew - Definitive Guide
Barad 007
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Your daily salary rises as you earn more award points and play faction/PvP missions. While on the map, press and scroll to My Faction. Here you will see what faction you’re in, the reputation points and bucks you've earned in each of the five regions and below your current daily salary intake. The salary is increased by playing more and more faction missions, PvP events and earning award points.
8 Comments
I must be doing something wrong, because I've done the out west faction mission 100 times over the past couple of days and earned 20,000 rep points, but my faction spoils is sitting at $1,800 and has so for the last 3 days 
By on 22 Dec 2014 08:45
It's a glitch, mine has gone down from 9000 bucks to 3000. I got back up to 5500 bucks and again it went down to 3500 bucks. I started a ticket on Ubisoft.com but doubt they'll help.
By Barad 007 on 22 Dec 2014 17:47
RomanAround
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Daily Salary Calculation
Your daily salary is calculated in quite a complicated manner that involves 3 elements:
• The rank of your faction in each of the 5 regions.
• Your rank within your faction in each of the 5 regions
• Your total number of Award Points and the resulting % Daily Salary Bonus.
Of these 3 elements, your rank within your faction in each of the 5 regions is by far the most important.
In terms of calculation method, the rank of your faction and your rank within the faction in each region is added together to determine a total ‘Daily Salary’. Your award % bonus is then added to that salary. For example:
East Coast Daily Salary: $460
Midwest Daily salary: $800
South Daily Salary: $460
Mountains Daily Salary; $1200
West Coast Daily Salary; $3700
Total Daily Income: $6,620
Awards Bonus %: 22%
Awards Bonus Value: £$1,324
Total Daily Salary: $7,944.
The following will now go through each of the key elements involved in raising your daily salary.
The Rank of Your Faction
In every region, for every month so far, Wolves have always been the number 1 faction. I don’t see that ever changing because community stats show that 71% of players are in the Wolves faction and as the ranking is based on aggregated points and not an ‘average points per member’ basis, they’ll likely never be moved from the number 1 spot.
However, this is the least important aspect of your daily salary and because Wolves is so over-populated it’s very hard to move up the ranks within it. I therefore recommend that you align yourself with one of the other 4 factions. Personally, I chose Bears as they consistently get the number 2 spot but have a low player count meaning it’s easier to move up the ranks.
RECOMMENDATION: Choose a faction other than Wolves – preferably Bears.
Your Rank within your chosen faction
This is where the bulk of your money is earned. Your rank within a faction is based upon how many Reputation Points (RP) you earn for that faction compared to all of the other players in that same faction. The ranks are:
•Boss: Only one player will be able to hold this title in each region
•Under Boss: The 0.5% of top players
•Street Boss: The next 5% of players
•Lieutenant: The next 12.5% of players
•Thug: The next 25% of players
•Gangsta: The next 57% of players
•Rookie: Players in a faction with little (if any) reputation within a faction. These players will still recieve a small salary.
This means that, covertly, Ubisoft are sticking you in a worldwide leaderboard with other gamers that you’ll have to compete with to earn a high enough rank to unlock a big enough salary for the achievement.
There are 2 things you need to consider when trying to move up the ranks of your faction:
• How you intend to earn your reputation points
• Which regions you are going to concentrate on.
Earning Reputation Points
To earn enough reputation points to move up the ranks of your faction you can do 3 things:
• Play PvP Races
• Complete faction missions
• Send Your Friends on Faction Missions
Your time will be best spent combing playing PvP Races and sending Friend on faction Missions. Doing faction missions yourself takes way too much time for a very poor RP return.
Firstly, ensure that you max out the 'Notorious' perk from Roxanne. When maxed out (5 perk points) this perk means that you gain 10% more reputation points from PVP events and faction missions.
Most PvP races will take between 80 seconds and 8 minutes and reward between 280 and 387 RP per race based upon your finishing position and the number of perk points you've put into the Notorious perk, so just try to complete as many PvP free-for-all races as you can.
When it comes to sending friends on faction Missions, this is a way for you to earn quick, free, easy reputation points. Simply follow these steps:
• While playing the game, add any Level 50 players you see as a friend. You can do this by pressing right stick, scrolling to their Gamercard, selecting ‘View Gamer Profile’ then pressing Add Friend.
• Open the world map.
• Select a faction mission and choose ‘Send friends’
• You will be prompted to choose which friends you want to complete the mission.
• Each level has a ‘Chance of Success’ and it’s your goal to select enough friends ( up to 4) to make that chance of success 100%.
• You can then launch the mission.
• The mission will then become greyed out on your map and, in-real time you will eventually be notified that the mission has been completed – i.e. if it’s a 10 minute mission then you will get your notification in 10 minutes time.
• The mission icon with have a green exclamation mark on it. Select the mission then select ‘See Result’.
• You now collect your reward (Bucks and RP).
• Then just send your friends on the mission again.
Sending friends on missions rewards between 20 and 150 RP and you can have friends out on 9 missions at any one time.
Note that if you max out the 'Friends With Benefits' perk from Roxanne, you can send up to 4 friends on each mission to ensure you get the 100% chance of success. Neither you or your friends have to do anything (they won’t even know you’re sending them on missions). Free reputation points!
RECOMMENDATION: Play lots of Free-For-All PvP and Send Friends on Faction Missions
Pick Your Regions
Concentrate on two regions only. If you start earning reputation points in all 5 regions you’ll likely never move up the ranks in any of them. If you concentrate on two regions you’ll stand a far better chance of moving up the ranks. I used West Coast and South because: A) They are popular enough to have full lobbies and B) They have a lot of Sprints and short races, meaning you can get more PvP races done per hour and therefore earn Reputation Points quicker.
RECOMMENDATION: Focus on 2 regions only – preferably West Coast and The South
Make Sure You Time Things Right
Everybody’s rank in their faction is reset on the 1st of a month. This means everyone technically becomes a ‘Rookie’ (Rank 7) and that no one occupies any of ranks 6 to 1. This presents the perfect opportunity to boost yourself up the ranks and earn a high daily salary. Play the hell out of the PvP and send as many friends as possible on faction missions during the first 2 to 3 days of the month. You’ll shoot up the ranks in no time.
The later in a month you start your push for a high rank, and therefore a high salary, the more players you are going to have to overcome and the harder it will be.
How I Got My Achievement
A quick summary of how I got my achievement, which I unlocked on February 2nd:
• I selected the Bears faction.
• On February 1st I played 45 PvP free-for-all races in the West Coast only. This took approximately 4 hours.
• I had 9 level 50 friends that I continuously kept sending on every West Coast and South faction missions.
• This earned me 25,234 Reputation Points.
• When I logged into the game on February 2nd my daily salary was $10,044 before any Awards Bonus (and $12,454 after). The achievement instantly popped.
Those 25,234 reputation points, on day one of the month, were enough to put me into the Under Boss Rank in the West Coast (i.e. the top 0.5% of players). That combined with my modest earnings in the South, was enough to tip me over the $10,000 mark even before the Awards bonus.
Summary
I know this has been a very long guide but it is a complicated achievement and I wanted to be as thorough as possible. If anyone has any queries please let me know.
Helpful tips from the comments...
** Credit to Stahp for reminding me about the Notorious perk.
** Bonkekook has added very helpful notes on his approach to this achievement.
** ShadowsofSatan and Ham Man 89 have pointed out that the RP regards seem to have been increased, which means that, following the above guide, you should be able to get the achievement much quicker now (February 2016).
Your daily salary is calculated in quite a complicated manner that involves 3 elements:
• The rank of your faction in each of the 5 regions.
• Your rank within your faction in each of the 5 regions
• Your total number of Award Points and the resulting % Daily Salary Bonus.
Of these 3 elements, your rank within your faction in each of the 5 regions is by far the most important.
In terms of calculation method, the rank of your faction and your rank within the faction in each region is added together to determine a total ‘Daily Salary’. Your award % bonus is then added to that salary. For example:
East Coast Daily Salary: $460
Midwest Daily salary: $800
South Daily Salary: $460
Mountains Daily Salary; $1200
West Coast Daily Salary; $3700
Total Daily Income: $6,620
Awards Bonus %: 22%
Awards Bonus Value: £$1,324
Total Daily Salary: $7,944.
The following will now go through each of the key elements involved in raising your daily salary.
The Rank of Your Faction
In every region, for every month so far, Wolves have always been the number 1 faction. I don’t see that ever changing because community stats show that 71% of players are in the Wolves faction and as the ranking is based on aggregated points and not an ‘average points per member’ basis, they’ll likely never be moved from the number 1 spot.
However, this is the least important aspect of your daily salary and because Wolves is so over-populated it’s very hard to move up the ranks within it. I therefore recommend that you align yourself with one of the other 4 factions. Personally, I chose Bears as they consistently get the number 2 spot but have a low player count meaning it’s easier to move up the ranks.
RECOMMENDATION: Choose a faction other than Wolves – preferably Bears.
Your Rank within your chosen faction
This is where the bulk of your money is earned. Your rank within a faction is based upon how many Reputation Points (RP) you earn for that faction compared to all of the other players in that same faction. The ranks are:
•Boss: Only one player will be able to hold this title in each region
•Under Boss: The 0.5% of top players
•Street Boss: The next 5% of players
•Lieutenant: The next 12.5% of players
•Thug: The next 25% of players
•Gangsta: The next 57% of players
•Rookie: Players in a faction with little (if any) reputation within a faction. These players will still recieve a small salary.
This means that, covertly, Ubisoft are sticking you in a worldwide leaderboard with other gamers that you’ll have to compete with to earn a high enough rank to unlock a big enough salary for the achievement.
There are 2 things you need to consider when trying to move up the ranks of your faction:
• How you intend to earn your reputation points
• Which regions you are going to concentrate on.
Earning Reputation Points
To earn enough reputation points to move up the ranks of your faction you can do 3 things:
• Play PvP Races
• Complete faction missions
• Send Your Friends on Faction Missions
Your time will be best spent combing playing PvP Races and sending Friend on faction Missions. Doing faction missions yourself takes way too much time for a very poor RP return.
Firstly, ensure that you max out the 'Notorious' perk from Roxanne. When maxed out (5 perk points) this perk means that you gain 10% more reputation points from PVP events and faction missions.
Most PvP races will take between 80 seconds and 8 minutes and reward between 280 and 387 RP per race based upon your finishing position and the number of perk points you've put into the Notorious perk, so just try to complete as many PvP free-for-all races as you can.
When it comes to sending friends on faction Missions, this is a way for you to earn quick, free, easy reputation points. Simply follow these steps:
• While playing the game, add any Level 50 players you see as a friend. You can do this by pressing right stick, scrolling to their Gamercard, selecting ‘View Gamer Profile’ then pressing Add Friend.
• Open the world map.
• Select a faction mission and choose ‘Send friends’
• You will be prompted to choose which friends you want to complete the mission.
• Each level has a ‘Chance of Success’ and it’s your goal to select enough friends ( up to 4) to make that chance of success 100%.
• You can then launch the mission.
• The mission will then become greyed out on your map and, in-real time you will eventually be notified that the mission has been completed – i.e. if it’s a 10 minute mission then you will get your notification in 10 minutes time.
• The mission icon with have a green exclamation mark on it. Select the mission then select ‘See Result’.
• You now collect your reward (Bucks and RP).
• Then just send your friends on the mission again.
Sending friends on missions rewards between 20 and 150 RP and you can have friends out on 9 missions at any one time.
Note that if you max out the 'Friends With Benefits' perk from Roxanne, you can send up to 4 friends on each mission to ensure you get the 100% chance of success. Neither you or your friends have to do anything (they won’t even know you’re sending them on missions). Free reputation points!
RECOMMENDATION: Play lots of Free-For-All PvP and Send Friends on Faction Missions
Pick Your Regions
Concentrate on two regions only. If you start earning reputation points in all 5 regions you’ll likely never move up the ranks in any of them. If you concentrate on two regions you’ll stand a far better chance of moving up the ranks. I used West Coast and South because: A) They are popular enough to have full lobbies and B) They have a lot of Sprints and short races, meaning you can get more PvP races done per hour and therefore earn Reputation Points quicker.
RECOMMENDATION: Focus on 2 regions only – preferably West Coast and The South
Make Sure You Time Things Right
Everybody’s rank in their faction is reset on the 1st of a month. This means everyone technically becomes a ‘Rookie’ (Rank 7) and that no one occupies any of ranks 6 to 1. This presents the perfect opportunity to boost yourself up the ranks and earn a high daily salary. Play the hell out of the PvP and send as many friends as possible on faction missions during the first 2 to 3 days of the month. You’ll shoot up the ranks in no time.
The later in a month you start your push for a high rank, and therefore a high salary, the more players you are going to have to overcome and the harder it will be.
How I Got My Achievement
A quick summary of how I got my achievement, which I unlocked on February 2nd:
• I selected the Bears faction.
• On February 1st I played 45 PvP free-for-all races in the West Coast only. This took approximately 4 hours.
• I had 9 level 50 friends that I continuously kept sending on every West Coast and South faction missions.
• This earned me 25,234 Reputation Points.
• When I logged into the game on February 2nd my daily salary was $10,044 before any Awards Bonus (and $12,454 after). The achievement instantly popped.
Those 25,234 reputation points, on day one of the month, were enough to put me into the Under Boss Rank in the West Coast (i.e. the top 0.5% of players). That combined with my modest earnings in the South, was enough to tip me over the $10,000 mark even before the Awards bonus.
Summary
I know this has been a very long guide but it is a complicated achievement and I wanted to be as thorough as possible. If anyone has any queries please let me know.
Helpful tips from the comments...
** Credit to Stahp for reminding me about the Notorious perk.
** Bonkekook has added very helpful notes on his approach to this achievement.
** ShadowsofSatan and Ham Man 89 have pointed out that the RP regards seem to have been increased, which means that, following the above guide, you should be able to get the achievement much quicker now (February 2016).
11 Comments
Great solution! Thank you very much! Have been trying it without looking up the solution and stayed in the wolves faction... I try to get it next month.
By Hanshiro on 09 Feb 2015 23:00
Bonkekook - thanks for your post above. Very interesting to read your approach and I can see that it worked very well! I agree that there is a definite advantage to getting it done at the start of a month. And well done for reaching 'Boss' on the West Coast!
I'll put a reference to your comment in the main guide to encourage people to read it.
I'll put a reference to your comment in the main guide to encourage people to read it.
By RomanAround on 02 Mar 2015 22:15
NitrousX123
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Trying to grind for the Daily Salary here's a guide that may help.
I would suggest joining a faction with a lower amount of players like the Snakes or the Crocodiles, as going into a more populated faction you earn less RP as more players populate the faction the harder it is to gain RP.
In my case I choose the Crocodiles, I started grinding for this trophy a week after the first week of the month. The earlier you grind this trophy for the quicker you can get it, as you can see (click here http://imgur.com/8Ep2bel for example of ranking) you need Two Lieutenants and three Thugs in either region to get the trophy to unlock. To get Thug rank you need 20-21k, Lieutenant starts from 30k+. (These may vary per faction so take this as a avg indicator for the Crocodiles Faction).
Breakdown of Ranks
Rookie 0 RP
Gangsta 5-19k
Thug 20-30k
Lieutenant 31-40k
Street Boss 41-50k
Under Boss 51-60k
Boss 61-70k
To earn RP you can do PvP or by doing Faction missions or sending friends on Faction missions (you earn 160RP for longer missions, shorter missions give 60RP), which can be found under the Faction tab in the map screen by pressing
. The quickest way to earn RP is to do PvP you earn 320 RP each time you take part. Or you can go into a Faction mission, the longer ones 1hr or more you can earn 1620 RP. Or ones that take 5mins+ you can earn 220RP.
Go into PvP as each race takes on avg 5mins. So if you were to take part in PvP for 1hr or so you would earn 3,840 approx. Do that for 5 hours you would earn 19,200 near enough to the Thug rank.
To bump up your RP/XP/$ you could use perks, these can be found in the HQ. To unlock all of them you need to unlock LA HQ, in the West Coast Region.
Zoe (Midwest Region): The Crew increase co-op bonus Bucks+XP in missions and faction missions by 10%
Roxanne (Mountain States): Notorious 10% more reputation points from faction missions & PvP Events
Roxanne (Mountain States): Friends with benefits 4 friends be sent on Faction missions at the same time
Vincent (West Coast): MVP 10% more XP and $ from PvP Events.
Also doing this grind you can unlock the 100,000 RP Trophy too.
I would suggest joining a faction with a lower amount of players like the Snakes or the Crocodiles, as going into a more populated faction you earn less RP as more players populate the faction the harder it is to gain RP.
In my case I choose the Crocodiles, I started grinding for this trophy a week after the first week of the month. The earlier you grind this trophy for the quicker you can get it, as you can see (click here http://imgur.com/8Ep2bel for example of ranking) you need Two Lieutenants and three Thugs in either region to get the trophy to unlock. To get Thug rank you need 20-21k, Lieutenant starts from 30k+. (These may vary per faction so take this as a avg indicator for the Crocodiles Faction).
Breakdown of Ranks
Rookie 0 RP
Gangsta 5-19k
Thug 20-30k
Lieutenant 31-40k
Street Boss 41-50k
Under Boss 51-60k
Boss 61-70k
To earn RP you can do PvP or by doing Faction missions or sending friends on Faction missions (you earn 160RP for longer missions, shorter missions give 60RP), which can be found under the Faction tab in the map screen by pressing
. The quickest way to earn RP is to do PvP you earn 320 RP each time you take part. Or you can go into a Faction mission, the longer ones 1hr or more you can earn 1620 RP. Or ones that take 5mins+ you can earn 220RP. Go into PvP as each race takes on avg 5mins. So if you were to take part in PvP for 1hr or so you would earn 3,840 approx. Do that for 5 hours you would earn 19,200 near enough to the Thug rank.
To bump up your RP/XP/$ you could use perks, these can be found in the HQ. To unlock all of them you need to unlock LA HQ, in the West Coast Region.
Zoe (Midwest Region): The Crew increase co-op bonus Bucks+XP in missions and faction missions by 10%
Roxanne (Mountain States): Notorious 10% more reputation points from faction missions & PvP Events
Roxanne (Mountain States): Friends with benefits 4 friends be sent on Faction missions at the same time
Vincent (West Coast): MVP 10% more XP and $ from PvP Events.
Also doing this grind you can unlock the 100,000 RP Trophy too.
Barad
Your daily salary rises as you earn more award points and play faction/PvP missions. While on the map, press 
and scroll to My Faction. Here you will see what faction you’re in, the reputation points and bucks you've earned in each of the five regions and below your current daily salary intake. The salary is increased by playing more and more faction missions, PvP events and earning award points.
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