The Agency: The secret gem

Posting this to make sure we aren’t going insane lol. But when it comes to manual grinds/businesses, to me, the agency is a literal hidden gem. I hear lots of people talk about the Dre contract of course, the Imani tech, but not too much about those regular security contracts and the pay phone hits.

The cheapest security contract pays at least 33K (highest being 69K), and if you complete the assasination bonus for the pay phone hit, you’ll get 45K every time. Doing these back to back takes me 15 minutes at most. That’s 75K right there, at least. That means that in just 60 real life minutes, you could make over 300K, over pretty simple and short missions.

I thought about this because yesterday, after years of avoiding it, I gave the CEO cargo business a try for real. Have heard about it being one of the most profitable businesses forever. Idk if it’s just me, but the grind is kind of crazy. Lotss of flying back and forth between crates, crazy hard npc enemies at times, and those delivery missions.. The last straw is when we compared the the timing of things:

For one 3 crate collection mission for the cargo business, it took us 20 minutes. It added 37K to the warehouse. But if you remember, we could make at least 75K every 15 minutes in the agency. That’s over double the profit for 5 minutes of less work! And for ON THE SPOT pay. With the cargo business, even after hours of collecting supplies, you still have to do the occasionally tough/long delivery mission.

Somebody tell us we’re not crazy for seeing this lol. Cannot BELIEVE anybody even mentions the cargo business in 2025. It feels like the Stone Age of gta online grinds to me lol. Unless they overhaul the business like they did the hangar, i don’t even want to step foot in the CEO office lol.