FFXIV gil per hour, realistically

Quick answer: Casual active methods pay roughly 200k–700k gil/hour; skilled crafting and flipping can hit 1–5M/hour with capital and know-how; passive retainer ventures add a few million per week for a minute or two a day. But every number is a snapshot — your real rate depends on your server, gear, and how fresh the patch is. Measure your own.

Updated September 2026

"How much gil per hour?" is the most-asked and most-mis-answered question in gil making. The honest answer is it depends — but that's not useful, so here are realistic ranges, what moves them, and, more importantly, how to find your number instead of trusting a stranger's screenshot.

Realistic ranges by method

Treat these as ballparks for a reasonably geared player, not promises. They shift with your world's prices and the patch cycle (see below).

What actually moves your number

• Your server. The same item sells for wildly different prices and at different speeds across worlds. A method that's great on a dense data center can be dead on a quiet one.
• The patch cycle. The days after a patch are a goldrush — new recipes, gear, and gatherables at peak prices before supply catches up. The same method mid-patch pays a fraction.
• Capital and gear. Crafting and flipping scale with the gil you can put in and the melds you have. New players are gated out of the top rates until they build both.
• Attention. "Per hour" assumes active play. Passive methods trade a lower hourly rate for near-zero effort — often the better deal for busy players.

How to find YOUR gil per hour

Instead of trusting a table, price the methods against your own world and time yourself:

1. Pick your world in XIV Profitability and open the tool for a method you're considering — crafting, gathering, duty drops, or flips.
2. The tool shows live profit and sales-per-day per item, so you can see what a run is worth on your server before you commit an hour to it.
3. Do one timed run, tally what you cleared after tax, and you have a real number for your world today. Compare methods on that basis.

It also pays to skim the Weekly Market Pulse first — our market report, refreshed every week, flags which items and methods are paying unusually well right now, so you time your session for a strong week instead of a flat one.

For the full method-by-method breakdown of how each one works, see how to make gil (every method, ranked). This guide is about the rate; that one is about the how.

FAQ

What's the single best gil/hour method?

Expert crafting plus flipping, for raw throughput — but only once you've invested in melds and capital. Until then, maps, unsynced trials, and gathering a fresh patch are the accessible highs.

Is passive income "worth less" because the hourly rate is lower?

No — retainer ventures cost you a minute or two a day, so their effective hourly rate is enormous even though the weekly total looks modest. For most players it's the best gil-per-effort in the game.

Why can't you just give me one number?

Because it would be wrong for your server the day you read it. The ranges above plus a live tool get you a real figure; a single hard number would just be someone else's snapshot.

Related tools

• Crafting profit calculator
• Gathering profits
• Duty drops
• Retainer ventures

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