GTA Online: 7 Best Ways To Earn Money Passively (2024)

In the ever-expansive world of Grand Theft Auto Online, players need money to do a lot of stuff such as buying properties and vehicles and customizing their favorite vehicles. When the game was launched, there were not a whole lot of ways to earn money. However, the Rockstar Games has been continuously expanding the ways through which players can fill millions of dollars in their bank accounts. These include heists, contact missions, and running different businesses.

Primarily, there are 2 ways of earning money in GTA Online: active and passive. As the name suggests, active ways require players to participate actively to be paid such as heists and contact missions. On the other hand, passive earning ways let players earn passively while doing other things such as races, heists, or other missions. Passive businesses let players enjoy the wild world of GTA Online while making money in the background. There are multiple passive businesses in GTA Online that players can operate. Some have great returns on investment while some have low returns.

7 Arcade

Earning At Full Potential: $5000/ 48 minutes

Players buy Arcade property primarily for the Diamond Casino Heist. However, they can also earn a sub-optimal amount of money passively through this business. For this, players have to set up all the arcade machines in place. Players don't have to buy the different arcade machines, they can just place the free machine that they get after the property in every slot.

After doing this, $5000 will be deposited in the safe in the Arcade office every in-game day which is 48 minutes in real-time. This might not sound like a lot, however, it is just a small perk of owning this business. The safe has a $50,000 cap so make sure to collect the money after it fills up.

6 Agency

Earning At Full Potential: $20,000/ 48 minutes

Agency is a must-own property in GTA Online due to the value it provides. First, it lets players play the Dr Dre's Contract missions. However, it also serves as a good source of passive income. There is a safe in the office where money fills up passively every 48 hours.

However, for this one, players have to put in a little effort to get the most out of it. The amount of money deposited in the wall safe is related to the Security Contracts players complete. For every 5 Security Contract, the wall safe income goes up by $500. Players can get a max of $20,000 every 48 minutes after completing 201 Security Contracts. Keep in mind that there is a cooldown after completing a contract.

5 Salvage Yard

Earning At Full Potential: $24,000/ 48 minutes

Salvage Yard is a relatively above-average business property, which allows players to launch mini-heists. In addition to that, this business also has a wall safe which fills up every 48 hours. Like the Agency's wall safe daily income, the money deposited in Salvage Yard's wall safe is tied to the tow truck missions players complete.

The wall safe daily income goes up by $1000 for completing every tow truck mission. It has a $24,000 daily deposit cap. Players can also buy the wall safe upgrade which will increase the safe's capacity from $100,000 to $250,000 so that they don't have to visit to collect the cash that often.

4 MC Businesses

Earning At Full Potential (All Businesses Combined):$197,300 / 60 minutes

Motorcycle Club Businesses or MC businesses are the illegal operations players run under the Motorcycle Clubhouse. There are 5 MC businesses that players can run. These all run in a similar fashion. Players have to bring in the supplies that the workers will convert into products. Players can simply just buy the supplies for $75,000 or they can launch a steal supply mission. Buying supplies will save a whole lot of time and hustle than stealing them.

After the staff has manufactured the product, players can start the sell mission to deliver the product and get paid. Players will get the delivery vehicle to deliver the product around the map. The tricky thing is that the players can get multiple delivery vehicles depending upon the amount of product they are selling. There is a rare chance that players will get only a single delivery vehicle irrespective of the amount of product.

3 Bunker

Earning At Full Potential: $57,857/ 60 minutes

The gun-running business in Bunker is very similar to the MC businesses but far more lucrative. It works the same way; players have to buy or steal the supplies and wait till the staff makes the product. However, it has some different features. In the Bunker, players can assign their staff to manufacture products, research to unlock some items, or do both. For players who primarily want to earn money, they have to assign staff to make products only.

This business also requires players to buy staff and equipment upgrades to get the most out of it. There is also a truck at the entrance of Bunker through which players can start an Ammu-Nation delivery mission which rewards them with $50,000. However, for Ammu-Nation delivery mission, make sure to have a Bunker in a more suitable location.

2 Acid Lab

Earning At Full Potential: $69,800/ 60 minutes

Acid Lab is yet another passive business that works on the same premise as the MC Businesses. However, players don't have to buy a property for this business. After completing the First Dose missions of GTA Online Los Santos Drug Wars DLC, players will get a new Service Vehicle, Brickade 6X6. In this vehicle, players can set up their Acid Lab.

The best thing about this business is that no matter how much product players are selling, they will always get only one delivery vehicle. On top of that, the supplies are a bit cheaper for Acid Lab. Players can buy a full supply for $60,000.

1 Nightclub

Earning At Full Potential: $50,000/ 48 minutes In Wall Safe And $50,520/ Hour In Underground Warehouse

This is by far the best business to earn money passively. There are multiple ways to earn money passively in the Nightclub. First, there is a wall safe where $50,000 gets deposited every in-game day if players keep the Nightclub Popularity bar full.

So, that was the typical way of earning money from the Nightclub. However, there is an underground warehouse where players will be running their shady business, and that too completely passively. The underground warehouse business depends on the different businesses players own in GTA Online. The staff upgrade and equipment upgrade is also a must for this business.

GTA Online

Grand Theft Auto Online is a dynamic and persistent online world for SIXTEEN players that begins by sharing gameplay features, geography and mechanics with Grand Theft Auto V, but continues to expand and evolve with new content created by Rockstar Games and the Grand Theft Auto community.

Grand Theft Auto Online takes the fundamental Grand Theft Auto concepts of freedom, ambient activity and mission-based gameplay and makes them available to multiple players in a detailed and responsive online world. In GTA Online, players have the freedom to explore alone or with friends, work cooperatively to complete missions, come together to participate in activities and ambient events, or compete in traditional game modes with the larger community, all with the personality and refined mechanics of Grand Theft Auto V.

Players can invest in their character through customizing their appearance, improving their stats, owning customized vehicles, purchasing personal property, and taking part in missions, jobs and activities to earn reputation and cash to open up new opportunities to rise through the criminal ranks.

The world of Grand Theft Auto Online will constantly grow and change as new content is added, creating the first ever persistent and dynamic Grand Theft Auto game world. Access to Grand Theft Auto Online is free with every retail copy of Grand Theft Auto V.

Franchise

Grand Theft Auto

Platform(s)

PC , PS3 , PS4 , PS5 , Xbox 360 , Xbox One , Xbox Series X|S

Released

October 1, 2013

Developer(s)

Rockstar North