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Robberies, car theft, hunting: the activities that pay in GTA VI

Between two missions, Leonida offers ways to make a living, and ways to spend it. Store robberies, stealing and selling cars, hunting, racing: here is what Rockstar has shown or said about each activity, which ones pay and which don’t, and the tool that compares them per hour of play.

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Leonidakit illustration: a stylized wheel of activities, five slices in amber, coral and night, with no image from the game
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Pays

Robbing a store, alone or as a pair

Rob Nelson calls it a major source of money in the game loop. The videos show how it plays out.

Jason with an assault rifle and Lucia with her pistol raised, amid a jewelry store’s shattered display cases, official Rockstar Games image
Jason and Lucia among the shattered display cases of a jewelry store, in an official image.Official Rockstar Games image
  • Almost every store. Talking to IGN, Rob Nelson explains that you can rob just about any store; he mentions a headphone shop, a bank and a payday loan office.
  • Alone or with the other character. Talking to Famitsu, he adds that you rob alone or as a pair, and that jewelry stores and small banks are better guarded than shops.
  • Cameras and witnesses. Destroying the security cameras lets you leave unseen, he says; the Extended Look shows Lucia hiding her gun behind her back before walking into a shop, around 17:57.
  • In the videos. Trailer 1 shows the pair robbing an Uncle Jack’s Liquor store, faces covered, around 1:16; the Extended Look chains gas stations, bandana over the face.

Pays

Stealing a car and selling it

Three methods shown, tools to get hold of, and a fence who pays less for a damaged car.

  1. Get in

    Around 6:05 of the Extended Look, in front of a Declasse Tulip, the game offers the slim jim or the broken window. Some parked cars stay locked until you have the tools, and recent ones need a key cloner.

  2. Scan

    The phone’s scanner tells you whether a car is locked, whether it has an alarm or a tracker, what it would bring at the Pay ’n’ Spray or from a fence, and how much registering it in your name would cost, according to Rob Nelson at IGN.

  3. Deliver

    Luxury cars have an alarm and a tracker; a fence can deal with them, and he pays less for a damaged car, which you can repair on the spot before delivering it.

The Stealing a car page details the three methods and the sources. And to find out what a model is worth, the Vehicles hub ranks more than three hundred pages, prices included the day they are published.

Outdoors

Hunting, fishing and racing

Mount Kalaga for hunting, fishing and off-roading, Grassrivers for the airboat, and night races in Vice City.

What pays, what doesn’t. An illustration clip: five activities sort themselves into two columns, money or not, based on what Rockstar has said. No image from the game, no amounts.Leonidakit illustration clip, with no image from the game

Water activities, jet ski, kayak, diving and airboat, are confirmed by Game Informer, with no word on whether they pay. And the gym changes Jason and Lucia’s bodies rather than their bank account. The Side activities page gathers the seven pages.

The calculator

Comparing activities per hour of play

A robbery that pays a lot but needs a long prep can be worth less than a quick resale. The right measure is money per hour of play, prep and cooldown included, with your share if there are two of you. That is exactly what “My activities” calculates: you enter the earnings, the duration, the prep time, the cooldown before doing it again and your share, and it ranks them.

Official poster: An Extended Look, August 27, 2026.Watch the video
An Extended Look, August 27, 2026. Gas station robberies, a Declasse Tulip stolen around 6:05, night races and the gym: the video where you see the most activities. The moments we noted.

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The day an earning is published, recorded in game or reported by two matching outlets, it enters the activity’s page with its status, its source and its date, and the calculator offers it as a reference. You can read how the site classifies a piece of information on What’s confirmed.

Questions

Questions people ask about the activities

Which activities pay money in GTA VI?
According to Rockstar North, store robberies, stealing and selling cars, and hunting. Races are confirmed with no published earnings, and fishing doesn’t pay: catches are always released.
Can you rob any store?
Just about, according to Rob Nelson at IGN, alone or as a pair. Jewelry stores and small banks are better guarded than shops, according to his Famitsu interview.
How much does a robbery pay in GTA VI?
No amount is published as of October 27, 2026. The site will show every earning with its source and its date, and “My activities” in the calculator will compare the activities with your own records.
Does fishing pay money?
No, according to Rob Nelson as reported by TGG: catches are released. Fishing is tied to challenges, collectibles and story moments.

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The sources of this article

Every fact in the article points to a page you can open. The status says where the information comes from: Rockstar, a media outlet, or an identification by players.

  1. Seen in mediaIGN: GTA 6, The Big Interview (full interview with Rob Nelson, Rockstar North, during a 30-minute demo)published 10/07/2026, accessed 10/26/2026

    Rob Nelson details the money that drives the story, the car scanner (value at the Pay ’n’ Spray or from a fence, registration cost), robbery targets, the personal vehicle and two missions from the Extended Look.

  2. Seen in mediaInven Global: Rob Nelson’s full interview with IGNpublished 10/07/2026, accessed 10/20/2026

    “Focus” mode, the “Busted” screen, a vehicle scanner on the phone, robberies in almost every store, a game designed to be replayed.

  3. Seen in mediaFamitsu: interview with Rob Nelson (Rockstar North) after the demopublished 08/28/2026, accessed 09/27/2026

    Safehouses that change with the chapters, three vehicle slots at the start, garages to buy, Ammu-Nation locker, Pay ’n’ Spray and fences, heists, salons and stores, haircuts at home.

  4. Seen in mediaPC Gamer: the Famitsu interview, translatedaccessed 10/20/2026

    The translation of Rob Nelson’s answers to Famitsu, taken from GamesRadar+.

  5. OfficialRockstar Newswire: Grand Theft Auto VI, An Extended Lookpublished 08/27/2026, accessed 09/23/2026

    A presentation captured in-game on PlayStation 5, first on Netflix and then on YouTube.

  6. Seen in mediaGame Informer: the activities glimpsed in the Extended Lookpublished 08/27/2026, accessed 10/04/2026

    Night races, motorcycles, stock car and rally, base jumping, TV, a strip club where you spend money.

  7. OfficialRockstar Games: official GTA VI videos (Trailer 1, Trailer 2, An Extended Look)published 12/04/2023, accessed 09/23/2026

    Trailer 1 from December 4, 2023, Trailer 2 from May 6, 2025, Extended Look from August 27, 2026: the site’s stills come from them.

  8. OfficialOfficial Grand Theft Auto VI site (“Only in Leonida” pages, editions, pre-orders)published 05/06/2025, accessed 09/23/2026

    Six regions and eight characters presented on May 6, 2025; edition texts from June 24, 2026. Reread on 09/27/2026 in the pages that quote it (rockstargames.com couldn’t be reached from our workspace that day).

  9. OfficialRockstar Games: official GTA VI screenshotsaccessed 09/23/2026

    Screenshots of the regions and characters (May 2025) and of the editions (June 2026); the storefronts named in the screenshot titles.

  10. Seen in mediaGame Informer: over 170 animal species in GTA VIpublished 09/29/2026, accessed 10/04/2026

    Over 170 species; some rare, discoverable or legendary ones can be tracked.

  11. Seen in mediaBeebom: more detailed fishing and hunting, with a surpriseaccessed 10/04/2026

    TGG’s write-up: hunting pays when you sell what you collect, and goes through a character Jason knows.

  12. Seen in mediaTechRadar: 16 details learned from the Extended Lookpublished 08/27/2026, accessed 10/10/2026
  13. Seen in mediaVGC: Rockstar reveals a host of details ahead of the Extended Lookpublished 08/27/2026, accessed 10/04/2026

    Rob Nelson: food affects Jason and Lucia’s weight, and exercise visibly builds their muscles.

  14. Seen in mediaNotebookcheck: fishing as deep as in Red Dead Redemption 2, with a catchpublished 09/07/2026, accessed 10/04/2026

    Rob Nelson to TGG: catches are always released; fishing leads to challenges, collectibles and story moments.

  15. Seen in mediaGameSpot: fishing and hunting don’t work the way you thinkaccessed 10/04/2026

    Rob Nelson’s reported comments: fishing with no selling, hunting that earns money.

  16. Seen in mediaGamesRadar+: everything the Extended Look shows, livepublished 08/27/2026, accessed 10/04/2026

    Lucia on the bench press, pressing in rhythm; gas station robberies, bandanas over faces.

  17. Seen in mediaGameSpot: the new way to steal a caraccessed 10/04/2026

    Around 6:05 in the Extended Look: the choice between a slim jim and a smashed window; newer cars need a key cloner.

  18. Seen in mediaInsider Gaming: the new activities confirmed by Game Informeraccessed 10/04/2026

    The list from the Game Informer cover story: base jumping, pool, gyms, kayaking, mini golf, diving, street and off-road racing, zoos, airboats and jet skis.

  19. Community identificationGTA Wiki: trailer shots, timestampedaccessed 10/04/2026

    The liquor store robbery in Trailer 1, around 1:16.

  20. Seen in mediaKotaku: GTA 6 makes stealing cars harderaccessed 10/04/2026

    Rob Nelson: some parked cars stay locked until you have the tools to get in.

  21. Seen in mediaGamesRadar+: no magic start for every caraccessed 10/04/2026

    The same comments from Rob Nelson about the tools you need to get for certain cars.

Text, illustrations and illustration clip: Leonidakit. Screenshots and artworks are official Rockstar Games images, credited on Media and credits.