do jedi get paid ?


they must get some sending money for missions. do they get room and board at the academy ?

daily meals ?

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Just action figure residuals.

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I would guess not, but the Jedi and/or the Republic order must cover their expenses for clothes, food, travel, ugly brown robes, spaceships, and so on.

Maybe when they're sent on away missions, they get some sort of Jedi credit card, that will cover everything except death sticks...

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Here's what I've been able to figure out, based on watching the films, cartoons, and playing "Star Wars the Old Republic:"

Most of the time, when at the temple, Jedi are provided everything they need, including food, clothing, a place to sleep, equipment, training, research; anything you can ask for. Most of the time, they would set up business arrangements with different factions that involved trading favors in exchange for goods for the temple. People also donated money to the temple so they could pay for things like supplies, passage to other worlds, cloth, etc.

Not many people know this, but not all force-sensitives are born the same. In fact, many are nowhere near as powerful as people like the Skywalker Clan, or members of the Jedi Council. If you are born force-sensitive, the amount of power you have is set at birth, and if you don't have much force ability, you're kinda sunk if you expect to become a big-time Jedi knight. It was another story entirely if you chose to become a Sith, which was a bad idea to start with, and you risked not only losing yourself, but getting killed in the training process.

For people of lower force sensitivity, they usually were taken in by the Order anyway (especially if the person was an orphan or had been cast out by their family or planet), and they served in running the temple and doing more mediocre stuff, like taking care of the library, clerical work, running eating areas, helping out the higher-ups, stuff like that. Sometimes if there weren't enough people like that, the temple would employ droids.

Now the Jedi did use money at times, but not for personal gain. It was mostly used in paying for starships, materials for building lightsabers (except for the Kyber crystals, you had to go to a special planet for that), probably cloth for making robes, buying food, travel, things like that. Jedi could earn money doing favors for people, or request it from trusted friends/allies.

The council could also request loans from trusted allies if a large sum of money was needed for something, or if they needed funds for, say, a research expedition to another planet.

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Can I ask where you learned this? The fan-fiction book universe, Old Republic games, or some official Canon source?

If it's all Canon, I have a question re: "For people of lower force sensitivity, they usually were taken in by the Order anyway". Now it's definitely Canon that by the end of the Jedi, they were taking children away and severing all ties with their families of origin, which some families have to have resented, or resisted. If the kid was force-sensitive and not knight material, did the family have an option of keeping the kid, and refusing to let them lead the life of a servant to the Jedi? Come to think of it, did the family have the option of refusing to let the Jedi take the kid away at all?

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I thought about this before. Like most any organization, you don't get to be Tom Cruise flying the jets around. You're washing the latrine. Most jedi would actually have really sucky jobs.

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There was one luxury that I loved about being a Jedi in SWTOR :) You get your own Corellian ship. It's not a big one, but it can carry at least a dozen passengers, you have your own cabin (since you're the owner and "captain,") some cargo, a small sickbay, two meeting rooms, your own protocol droid (who is a total kiss-ass), and has weapons and other ways to defend itself. In fact, its design reminds me a little bit of a hammerhead shark.

But then again, it's mandatory that all classes in the game have their own ship, because otherwise, your character would not be able to travel to other planets so easily.

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What complete sheer nonsense. You do know that the jedi and the entire Star Wars universe is fictional. Nothing was ever discussed or filmed about the jedi using or earning any money

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