Are your Sims overpaid, underpaid or fairly paid?

Quite fairly paid, except my global superstar actor had been quite underpaid, at least when compared to real life actors who are overpaid in my opinion.
Also doctors and some other Sims on certain careers are not paid well enough.

I use mod that lowers salaries, because I like the challenge :)

I don’t use mods, and most of my sims seem underpaid, they certainly don’t live in mansions, but I do play rotationally.

I only have one single sim ( that I don’t cheat with ) that has a nice house. She doesn’t have a job, but does have a sizable greenhouse, however with her dragon fruit plants going back to dirt, which she uses to help pay bills ….. I’m a bit worried about money depleting little by little as she has to pay sizable bills….. as it is I only have 8 dragon fruit plants, the rest are other plants. She also likes archeology so she goes to silvadorado on vacations often.

I have some sims at the top of their careers, and I don’t even consider them rich….. it seems like my bills can be quite high. And I don’t start them off with a free house or anything like that with my normal sims. I guess my sims must do too much partying, vacationing, and living life, because they certainly do like to play. but don’t seem to get ahead quickly in life. But then I do have a large rotation.

Depends on the sim but most of the time I think they’re overpaid. It’s really easy to get rich in this game.

Depends. When I play rags to riches sims don't earn much in the beginning but once they are half way through a career or have a decent painting skill earning money is really easy.

with sims on the breadline and especially on some careers on the first 3 ranks, the job is paid in peanuts. Painting pictures is actually a lot more profitable after the first few levels, so i tend to skip careers and go for painting after gaining a few ranks from San Myshuno museum because of the wall painting. when i've made a little money i switch over to achievement hunting for 5k reward points for a money tree and then the difficulty goes from fairly easy to non-existent.

It takes a while in the careers to get something out of it, even if you had a top end (rank 10) career, your sim is famous with easy street (with double the money per/hour) it still wouldn't be enough. Gardening only works for some types of plants, but good early reliable moneymakers are snapdragons but after a short while, you'll find yourself putting down a lot of planters just to make a few thousand a harvest from the snapdragons.

The money tree is the issue, especially the well known exploit that has still not been removed, that removes any difficulty after the first money tree. I wouldn't mind if the money tree was removed from the game altogether.

That stated, i do have MCCC and the console so using that or the console can give me immediate money as well. i tend to avoid using them because if i start a new save and my sim already has millions, the challenge of getting there is lost and there is not lot to hold my interest working up to that point.

My sims are actors so I think they are paid what real actors get paid now a days ?

Motherlode is very very good to give your sims a fun cool home. ;)

My Sims live the easy life....well, most of them anyway....

usually overpaid
because i often max the careers and don't make mega big houses

that being said i actually noticed the bills crawling up for my bigger houses after they updated it so for those houses it seems quite fair balance