How progression works

Three kinds of level

Your total level is your whole character, the rank bar you see when you press F1 or Z. It’s what opens the big things: banks, groups, leasing a business, the premium dealership. It goes to 100. It grows from:

all of your team XP: every point you earn on a team also counts here;
a few awards of its own: the walkthrough (150), your first goals, a lottery win (150). Of all the achievements, only your first goals pay anything.

Skill XP never counts toward your total.

Team ranks. Civilian, Law Enforcement, Medic and Firefighter each have their own rank, up to 100. Switching teams loses nothing; the old rank waits for you. Team XP only counts for the team you’re on right now: sell fish or finish a board job as a medic and you get the cash, but no civilian XP and nothing toward your total.

Civilian rank opens the pimp’s harder jobs and raises his pay, and sets how big a heads-up race stake can be.
Police rank opens the armoury’s weapons and keeps your roadblocks and stingers down longer.
Firefighter rank opens the station’s equipment.

Skills go to 25, and each grows from its own work:

Skill	Grows from	What it does
Hacking	successful alarm panel and vault terminal hacks	Level 10 makes every hack a step easier, level 20 another
Robbing	robberies you get away with, and sealed G6 cargo sold to the insider	A better haggle at the pawn shop
Towing	tow calls delivered	It is your tow rank: better calls and trucks
Fishing	every fish landed and every pot pulled	Fishing 7 lets you buy the large cooler
Business	business jobs and collecting a safe	Your small-business reputation: discounts, a second slot, bigger earnings
Mechanics	nothing yet	Shown on your skills page, but nothing raises it today

You’ll know when it happens

Every time you earn XP, GTA’s rank bar flashes. A level-up is announced to the whole server, with confetti for a team or total level. To check where you stand:

F1 or Z: your total level;
/level: your team rank, and /total: your total level;
Skills & ranks in the F10 dashboard: everything, with your tow rank under Towing;
Profile in the dashboard: a card for each team with your counts on it, and the leaderboards to see how you stack up.

Where XP comes from

What you do	XP	Goes to
Finish the walkthrough	150	Total
Your first goals	50, 150, 60 and 400	Total
Win the lottery	150	Total
A trucking run	40, +12 a km, +30 for petrol, +20 a random event, +5/12/20 for parking in the bay	Civilian
Simeon’s repo job	60 easy, 100 medium, 150 hard	Civilian
A tow call	55 to 130 by call (a quarter more after dark)	Civilian
	25 to 70 by call (a quarter more after dark)	Towing
A pimp job	50, 80, 110, 120, 160, 220 up the ladder	Civilian
A robbery you get away with	shop 60, ATM 25, other 15, bank 150, jeweller 300	Civilian
	shop 20, ATM 10, bank 100, jeweller 60	Robbing
Hold up a player / a passer-by / pick a pocket / shake down a dealer	40 / 25 / 12 / 30	Your team
Crush a car at the scrapyard	15	Your team
A successful hack	40	Civilian
	46	Hacking
A fish	25 a keeper, 6 an undersize one, +15 for a new species, +120 for a trophy	Fishing
A pot pulled	38	Fishing
Selling fish	4 a fish	Civilian
Sealed G6 cargo sold to the insider	10 a piece	Robbing
Racing	40 to finish, +120/70/40 on the podium, 50 for a personal best, 200 for a server record	Civilian
Today’s work	100 to 200 a daily, 800 to 1,000 the weekly	Civilian
A business job / collecting a safe	40 / 10	Business
A police arrest	40 + 10 a star, plus bonuses; a takedown pays three quarters	Police
Writing a ticket / collecting one	5 to 15 / 5 to 15	Police
Resetting an alarm / taking a witness statement	20 / 20	Police
A Gruppe Sechs escort	15 a leg, 40 for the whole run, 20 first on scene, 10 a piece of cargo booked	Police
A patient delivered	90	Medic
A fire	6 a flame, +60 for everyone there when it’s out	Firefighter

The team curve is gentler than the total’s, so your civilian rank usually runs a little ahead of your total level.

Next on the path: What unlocks when.

XP to reach a level

The total rank and each team rank go to 100; a skill stops at 25. Hacking has its own curve, so its first levels take a few hacks each (46 XP a successful hack).

Level	Total rank	Team rank	Skill	Hacking
2	145	83	55	113
3	354	202	135	239
5	1,088	621	414	554
7	2,281	1,302	868
10	5,000	2,853	1,902	1,928
15	12,201	6,961	4,641	4,500
20	22,976	13,108	8,739	8,638
25	37,538	21,416	14,277	14,660
30	56,062	31,984
50	172,478	98,403
75	420,857	240,108
100	792,500	452,140

The skills

Skill	Top level	What the game tells you about it
Hacking	25	Hacking can be used to gain access to secret data A bank terminal deals a different puzzle each job — the branch decides which Shooting a camera trips the alarm; hacking the panel does not Hacking level 10 makes every hack a step easier, and level 20 another Lester sells a hacking device, a laptop and USB drives: each makes a hack easier
Mechanics	25	A slim jim opens a locked car without the keys Damage comes off a repo fee, so bring it back in one piece An idling engine still drinks fuel — shut it off with /engine
Robbing	25	A mask keeps your name off the dispatch, and off the tape Cut the fuse box and the locks fail open for as long as the power is out A drill opens a vault door, and the deposit boxes on its walls
Towing	25	Get in a tow truck and the dispatcher starts calling. /tow asks for a call right now Reverse the hook up to the car and press the winch key; a flatbed lowers its ramp first Every tow ranks you up with dispatch, and higher ranks get the calls that pay
Fishing	25	The beach is for tourists. The money is out by the rocks and the kelp No spot is on the map — look for the birds, or put a finder on your own boat Hammer a spot and it dries up. Give it an hour Short fish and garibaldi go back; no buyer will touch them
Business	25	A slot's money waits in the safe at the business. Leave it a day and it earns at 60% Jobs keep a business in shape; a run-down one earns a quarter of what it could Renewing the same business costs more each term; it also earns more for staying