The Sims 4 Astronaut Career: Space Ranger Or Interstellar Smuggler

The Astronaut career starts better paid than most and ends with the game's most entertaining fork: at level 7 your Sim either becomes a law officer of the solar system or starts running alien goods for money. The smuggler is the richer of the two, which says something about The Sims 4's sense of humour.

Ranks 1 To 7

That §234 opening is generous by the standards of this game's entry ranks, where a Media Intern earns §96 and a Water Person §112. The climb through the first seven is steady rather than dramatic, and the title of Astronaut itself is a waypoint rather than the destination.

Space Ranger

Interstellar Smuggler

Crime pays by §763 a day at the top and is ahead at all three ranks. §3,717 is also high enough to place this branch fourth on our highest paying jobs list, at §14,868 a week for nine hours across four days, which is the longest shift of anything in that top ten. The Space Ranger branch is the one to take if you would rather your Sim not be a criminal, and it costs them a fortune.

The Three Skills It Runs On

Fitness, Logic and Rocket Science. The last is the one that matters most and the one nobody has by accident: it is raised by building and upgrading a rocket ship in the garden, which is also how a Sim gets into space in the first place. Our highest paying jobs guide notes that space missions themselves speed the climb, so the rocket is both the skill trainer and the day job.

Skipping To The Top

careers.promote Astronaut raises a Sim one rank at a time once the console is open. Our career cheats guide lists it with every other job's code word, and if the point of cheating is to get to the smuggler's §3,717 quickly, remember the branch choice still has to be made by hand at level 7.

Astronaut Career Questions

Which Astronaut branch is better?

Interstellar Smuggler for money, by a wide margin, ending at §3,717 a day against §2,954. Space Ranger is the roleplay choice.

Do you need a rocket ship?

You need Rocket Science, and the rocket is how a Sim raises it. Building and upgrading one in the garden is the training ground for the job.

How long is the working day?

Nine hours across four days for the smuggler branch, per the weekly figures our highest paying jobs guide lists, which is the longest day in that top ten. The rest of the folder's jobs are on our careers guide and the Sims 4 hub.