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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
Mercenaries tend to require high levels of compensation (2x to 100x normal compensation, depending on the risk). A mercenary bodyguard for a minor official in a peaceful nation would probably ask for 2x normal pay while a mercenary bodyguard for a minor official in a war zone might ask for 10x normal pay. A mercenary bodyguard for a dictator during an invasion might ask for 100x normal pay.
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That depends very heavily on whether the mercenaries have the certifications, reputation skill set and/or social position to openly take legal contracts from institutions, corporations or individuals with healthy revenue streams or whether they are low Status people with no means to assure potential employers of any qualifications or trustworthiness.
Depending on how you define ''mercenary' work, prisoners have stabbed other prisoners in exchange for cartons of cigarettes and former Bolivian or Peruvian soldiers work as base security in war zones for less than the US minimum wage. Retail drug dealing as a profession in the US averages lower hourly pay than MCDonald's and that includes some of the people whose duties include 'security' at street corners.