- Saloon Simulator how to hire employees starts at the Peabody station job board.
- Compare proficiency before hiring because stronger workers can make fewer mistakes.
- Recruit core staff such as bartenders, cooks, cleaners, and waiters as demand grows.
- Enable auto pay after hiring to keep employees working across multiple saloon days.
- Hire courtesans by speaking with Lucy upstairs when she is available.
Saloon Simulator How to Hire Employees
The main employee recruitment system begins at the Peabody station. Travel to the station while managing your saloon, then interact with the job board to review available candidates. The board can show several positions, including bartender, cook, cleaner, and waiter.
Each candidate has a hiring fee and an ongoing wage. Candidate quality also matters. Higher proficiency improves the employee’s work performance and can reduce mistakes, making a stronger recruit more useful as your customer traffic increases.
Video Highlights:
- Open the Peabody station job board to begin recruiting.
- Compare candidates by role, quality, hiring fee, and wage.
- Add staff to the saloon and activate automatic payment.
- Manage employees through the employee panel.
- Learn how courtesan recruitment works through Lucy.
The job board is the most important location to remember because employee recruitment does not begin from the saloon’s regular service counters. Review the candidates carefully before spending money. A low-cost recruit may help immediately, but a higher-quality worker can be a better long-term choice when the role is central to your service loop.
| Recruitment Item | What It Means | Recommended Approach |
|---|---|---|
| Hiring fee | One-time cost to recruit the candidate | Keep enough cash available before hiring |
| Wage | Ongoing payment required to keep the worker employed | Enable auto pay after checking your income |
| Proficiency | Candidate quality and work reliability | Prioritize stronger ratings for busy roles |
| Job role | The service task assigned to the employee | Fill the biggest operational gap first |
| Employee panel | Menu for managing workers | Use it to stop, start, and review employees |
Do not hire every available candidate immediately. Start with the role causing the largest service delay, then expand once your income can support additional wages.
Which Employee Should You Hire First?
The best first hire depends on how your saloon is operating. Bartenders prepare drinks, cooks handle food, cleaners maintain rooms and service areas, and waiters help move orders to customers. These roles support different parts of the business, so the correct order can change as your layout and customer volume develop.
For many early setups, a bartender is a practical first choice because drink orders can accumulate quickly. A cleaner becomes increasingly valuable when tables or rooms are left waiting for cleanup. A cook can improve food preparation, but hiring one may be less urgent if you can still prepare meals efficiently yourself.
| Role | Main Responsibility | Best Time to Recruit | Priority Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bartender | Prepares and handles drink service | When drink orders queue | Strong choice for steady customer traffic |
| Cook | Prepares food and recipes | When food demand exceeds your capacity | Less urgent if the owner can cook efficiently |
| Cleaner | Handles messes and room cleanup | When rooms or tables remain dirty | Helps keep spaces available for new customers |
| Waiter | Supports customer delivery and service | When orders wait too long | Useful for reducing service bottlenecks |
| Courtesan | Provides room-related customer services | When rentable rooms are active | Requires speaking with Lucy upstairs |
A good recruitment plan is based on bottlenecks rather than job titles. Watch where customers are waiting. If drinks are delayed while food is available, recruit a bartender. If customers cannot use rooms because cleanup is unfinished, prioritize a cleaner. If orders are prepared but not delivered quickly, a waiter may provide more value.
Bartender
- Handles drink production
- Supports faster beverage service
- Prioritize when drink queues grow
Cleaner
- Clears messes and rooms
- Helps reopen used spaces
- Valuable for room-focused layouts
Waiter
- Supports customer service
- Helps move prepared orders
- Useful when delivery becomes slow
The cook is a more situational hire. If you have limited customers or only a small menu, preparing food yourself may be more economical. Once demand rises, a capable cook can free your character to focus on service, management, recipes, or other saloon tasks.
A new employee creates an ongoing wage obligation. Hiring a worker who has no meaningful task can reduce your available cash, especially when your saloon has limited rooms or low customer volume.
Step-by-Step Hiring Process
Follow this process whenever you want to add staff to the saloon. It works for the regular service roles available from the job board and provides a useful framework for later specialist recruitment.
Travel to Peabody Station
Leave the saloon and head to Peabody station. Look for the job board used to begin staff recruitment. The board is the starting point for reviewing available candidates.
Choose the Needed Role
Decide which service problem you want to solve. Select a bartender for drink demand, a cook for food demand, a cleaner for room or table maintenance, or a waiter for delivery support.
Compare Candidate Quality
Check the candidate’s role, proficiency, hiring fee, and wage. Higher proficiency is generally preferable because it can improve the worker’s performance and reduce mistakes.
Confirm the Hire
Select the candidate and confirm the recruitment cost. Leave enough money for wages and other saloon expenses before filling additional positions.
Assign Payment and Management Settings
Open the employee panel, review the new worker, and enable auto pay if you want wages handled automatically. Use the same panel to stop or restart service when necessary.
After hiring, employees should move toward their assigned work areas and begin supporting the saloon. Give them time to reach their stations before deciding that a hire is not functioning. You may also need to open the saloon and allow the service cycle to begin.
| Step | Action | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Visit Peabody station | Access the recruitment board |
| 2 | Select a role | Target a specific service bottleneck |
| 3 | Compare candidates | Balance quality, fee, and wage |
| 4 | Confirm recruitment | Add the worker to your staff |
| 5 | Enable auto pay | Maintain regular wage payments |
| 6 | Monitor performance | Decide whether the hire is worth keeping |
After recruiting a worker, observe one full service period before replacing them. This gives the employee time to reach the saloon, begin working, and demonstrate whether the role is actually helping.
Managing Wages, Auto Pay, and Staff Quality
Employee management continues after the hiring screen. Staff members require payment, and unpaid workers can stop contributing to your operation. The employee panel provides the main controls for reviewing workers, changing their status, and handling service settings.
Auto pay is convenient when you have a stable income. It reduces the chance of forgetting a wage payment while you focus on customers, food, rooms, or other management tasks. However, automatic payment does not remove the cost. Check your cash balance regularly, especially after hiring multiple employees.
| Management Setting | Use | Practical Advice |
|---|---|---|
| Auto pay | Automatically pays employee wages | Use when daily income is reliable |
| Stop serving customers | Temporarily pauses a worker | Useful for testing or controlling a special employee |
| Start serving customers | Returns a worker to active service | Confirm the worker is available before expecting results |
| Customize | Changes an employee’s appearance | Cosmetic option that does not replace role management |
| Replace worker | Selects a different candidate for an occupied role | Compare the new worker before paying another fee |
Worker quality is especially important for positions that serve customers frequently. The available candidate information indicates that stronger values can improve experience gained and reduce mistakes. This makes proficiency a useful comparison point, not just a decorative rating.
If a worker appears idle, check several possibilities:
- The employee may still be traveling to the work location.
- The saloon may not currently have a matching task.
- The worker may be busy with another assignment.
- The saloon may be closed.
- The role may not be useful for your current number of customers.
- The employee may require payment before continuing normally.
If a worker seems inactive, inspect the employee panel and the current service queue before replacing them. The problem may be low demand, a closed saloon, or a task that has not appeared yet.
Hiring Courtesans Through Lucy
Courtesan recruitment follows a different process from the standard station job board. When the relevant content is available in your progression, find Lucy on the upper floor while the saloon is open. Speak with her and choose the dialogue option about the girls available for hire.
Lucy may not be standing in her usual position if she is working. If she is missing, wait for her to return or use the employee panel to stop her service temporarily. Once she is available, the recruitment dialogue can be accessed.
The system allows up to three courtesans at once, according to the available tutorial information. Their management and payment work similarly to other employees, but their performance affects rentable rooms rather than ordinary food and drink service.
| Courtesan Attribute | Effect | Management Consideration |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | Influences how quickly service is performed | Useful when room activity is frequent |
| Coquetry | Affects seduction success | Higher values can improve customer acceptance |
| Company | Increases customer tips or earnings | Consider for profit-focused room strategies |
| Mockery | Increases customer impulsiveness | Higher values may create more fights |
| Work mode | Changes the courtesan’s approach | Test modes against your room setup |
Courtesans can increase income from rented rooms. When a customer accepts the service, the customer may leave the room sooner, allowing the room to become available again. This makes courtesans more useful when you have enough active rooms to support repeated turnover.
Training should not be neglected. A rejected customer can affect the next opportunity for that room, while Lucy has special behavior and may take a cut of room earnings. Her customers do not refuse in the same way, but she also has limited working time.
Before Hiring More Staff:
- Identify the largest service bottleneck
- Compare candidate proficiency, hiring fee, and wage
- Reserve enough cash for ongoing payments
- Check whether the saloon has enough demand for the role
- Review employee status after the next service period
Hiring multiple courtesans before you have enough active rooms can leave part of your staff underused. Expand room capacity and customer demand before treating every available hire as necessary.
Employee Hiring FAQ
Q: Where do I hire regular employees in Saloon Simulator?
Go to Peabody station and interact with the job board. You can review available candidates for roles such as bartender, cook, cleaner, and waiter.
Q: Which employee should I hire first?
Hire the worker that addresses your largest bottleneck. A bartender is useful when drink orders queue, while a cleaner becomes important when rooms or tables remain unavailable because of messes.
Q: How do I pay employees automatically?
Open the employee panel after recruiting a worker and enable auto pay. Continue checking your cash balance because automatic payment still creates an ongoing wage cost.
Q: How do I hire courtesans?
Find Lucy on the upper floor while the saloon is open, wait until she is available if she is working, and select the dialogue option about girls available for hire.
The core hiring loop is simple: identify a service delay, visit the correct recruitment location, compare the available candidates, and monitor the result after hiring. Start with the role that improves your current operation rather than filling every position at once.
Build your staff gradually. A focused team with reliable roles and manageable wages is usually easier to operate than a large roster hired before your saloon has enough demand.