Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver is a civilian transport job where you pick up passengers and drive them to their destination.

How the job works

Taxi Driver is a Civilian job based on passenger transport.

You pick up the marked customer, follow the destination blip, and complete the trip for pay.

Your reward depends on your level, your total Taxi Driver earnings, the trip distance, and how cleanly you drive.

VIP passengers pay extra if you deliver them quickly.

How to start

To become a Taxi Driver:

Take the Taxi Driver job at its marker in Los Santos or San Fierro.
Or get inside a Taxi, Cabbie, or Taxi S and press N.

At Level 10, you unlock:

/go taxi driver

Vehicles

Taxi Driver uses:

Taxi
Cabbie
Taxi S

How it works

Taxi Driver works by picking up passengers and taking them to their destination.

To complete a trip:

Go to the passenger icon on the map.
Pick up the marked client.
Follow the grey destination blip.
Deliver the passenger.

Red passenger blips are VIP clients.

VIP clients pay extra if you deliver them quickly.

Payment

Taxi Driver pay depends on:

Your level
Your total Taxi Driver earnings
Trip distance
How cleanly you drive

Crashes reduce your reward.

VIP passengers pay more if you deliver them quickly.

Tips

Useful Taxi Driver tips:

Use the Taxi S vehicle
Keep Jerry Cans and Repair Kits
Learn Basic Fuel Skills in /courses

Skin

Taxi Driver uses these skin IDs:

20
13
261
262

Pay facts

Passenger type	`L0` without VIP	`L10` with VIP
Normal green or blue passenger	`$3.00` per meter	`$10.80` per meter
Red VIP passenger	`$9.00` per meter	`$32.40` per meter
Crash-reduced trip	Uses the post-crash fare box	Uses the post-crash fare box with VIP

Red VIP passengers pay 3x the normal passenger value only when delivered within 70 seconds. The per-metre figures are clean-trip estimates, accurate to about 1%, not exact payout rates. For exact pay, use floor(current fare box x VIP multiplier x passenger multiplier): VIP is 1.2 when active, and the passenger multiplier is 3 for a timely red fare or 1 for green and blue fares.

L0 to L10 value table

Level	Normal passenger per meter	Normal passenger VIP per meter	Red passenger per meter	Red passenger VIP per meter
L0	$3	$3.6	$9	$10.8
L1	$3.6	$4.32	$10.8	$12.96
L2	$4.2	$5.04	$12.6	$15.12
L3	$4.8	$5.76	$14.4	$17.28
L4	$5.4	$6.48	$16.2	$19.44
L5	$6	$7.2	$18	$21.6
L6	$6.6	$7.92	$19.8	$23.76
L7	$7.2	$8.64	$21.6	$25.92
L8	$7.8	$9.36	$23.4	$28.08
L9	$8.4	$10.08	$25.2	$30.24
L10	$9	$10.8	$27	$32.4

Progression

Taxi Driver progression is based on total Taxi Driver earnings before the separate VIP job-money bonus. Progress and Earned increase by the current fare-box amount; cash includes the VIP bonus.

Levels are:

L0 Training, $0 earnings
L1 Junior Driver, $178,500 earnings
L2 Trained Driver, $535,500 earnings
L3 Senior Driver, $1,249,500 earnings
L4 Specialist Taxist, $2,320,500 earnings
L5 Professional, $3,748,500 earnings
L6 Tourist Manager, $5,533,500 earnings
L7 First Class Driver, $7,675,500 earnings
L8 Executive, $10,174,500 earnings
L9 Celebrities Class, $14,050,500 earnings
L10 President & CEO, $17,850,000 earnings

Achievement

The Level 10 civilian achievement for Taxi Driver is:

Crazy Taxi

Reward:

$1,000,000

Job Notes

Taxi Driver is available in Los Santos and San Fierro.
You can start it from the job marker or by pressing N inside a Taxi, Cabbie, or Taxi S.
Red passenger blips are VIP clients.
VIP clients pay extra if you deliver them quickly.
Crashes reduce your reward.
Taxi Driver progression is based on total job earnings.
At Level 10, you unlock /go taxi driver.

Related notes

About 1 in 15 fares leaves belongings worth up to $20,000. They are cash (seen: $6,093 to $19,551) or one of seven resources: Iron (110 to 422), Nitrous (152 to 500), Oil (58 to 218), Explosive (12 to 30), Chemicals (5 to 19), Engine Parts (5 to 19), or Electronics (3 to 11).
Hiding the taxi during a fare immediately cancels the trip and loses its unfinished progress. You must wait 30 seconds before taking another passenger. The separate 30 second return warning applies only when you leave the taxi without hiding it.
The blue Taxi Driver passenger icon is an intercity passenger for long journeys.

Rapid Transport restriction

A ped fare cannot start for 1 minute after Rapid Transport. Teleporting and recovering the taxi during a fare resets the mission and removes the passenger.

VIP passenger timing

One in 10 taxi passengers is a red VIP passenger in a hurry. Delivering that passenger within 70 seconds pays 200% more than the normal passenger payout, for 3x the normal total. This passenger bonus applies whether or not the driver has VIP.

Player passengers and taxi requests

CIT has no official player-taxi request or dispatch service. Taxi Driver mainly carries computer-controlled pedestrians. Real players can ride and periodically pay the driver. Taxi, Cabbie, and Nebula charge and pay $500 every 15 seconds while travelling above 37 km/h; Maverick charges and pays $1,000 every 15 seconds. Players who only need transport can use F2 to select or recover their own vehicle.

For payout after a crash, use floor(post-crash fare box x VIP multiplier x passenger multiplier). The fare box already includes the crash reduction.

Player passenger fares

While carrying a real player above 37 km/h, Taxi, Cabbie, and Nebula pay the driver and charge the passenger $500 every 15 seconds. Maverick pays and charges $1,000 every 15 seconds. Ordinary VIP and hourly Double Earnings do not multiply these fares. A passenger with $500 or less in a taxi, or $1,000 or less in a Maverick, is removed.

Non-weapon environment or object damage that removes more than 10 vehicle health changes the fare to max(0, floor(old estimate - damage amount x 10)). Use the reduced fare box for payment calculations. Leaving the taxi gives 30 seconds to return. Rapid Transport and recovery during a fare reset the mission and remove the passenger.

Current start and HUD

Take the job at its Los Santos or San Fierro marker, or press N inside Taxi, Cabbie, or Taxi S. The current Employment Office panel lists Taxi S as the non VIP recoverable job vehicle. Press N at a local Taxi Driver marker to return to the Employment Office.

The HUD shows the current Taxi Driver level, progress, session earnings under Earned, the current top Taxi Driver, and the estimated fare during an active passenger trip.

Leaving the vehicle

With a passenger aboard, leaving the taxi starts a 30 second return countdown. Walking away alone does not resign you from the job. Hiding the taxi immediately cancels the trip; teleporting or recovering it resets the mission and removes the passenger.