What are "wages" in M2TW? Do they add up?

[Beefeater]

It was an age...without mercy. An age...without pity. An age...without properly trained and vetted accountants.

[Quillan]

Mostly it's the pay for the bodyguards. If you look at the stats on the generals bodyguard, I think it tells you how much it costs in upkeep.

[econ21]

No, I don't believe it is the bodyguard upkeep. I included that in the army upkeep and, as I say, I got my sum to match the faction financial reporting.

Take the bodyguard upkeep for Scots, for example:

King 333
Prince 333
Edmund 250
TOTAL 913

This can't be the wages, as the wages are only 900. And we have not counted the agent upkeep (250) yet.

[lars573]

In Rome if you moused over wages it said something along the lines of the amount of family members salaries being paid by this city is X. In other words wages also includes the resources your family members consume. Not the bodyguard unit but the person leading it. So a percentage of that wage number minus agents is being paid to King, Prince, Edmund, and every other active family member every turn.

[Nestor]

I tested this with Scotland:

1. King, Heir and every general each get 200 florins salary
2. Cardinal gets 150 (not 100 like the priests do)

With the spy (100) and diplomat (50) the numbers now give the correct total amount for salaries (900):

3 generals x 200 = 600
1 cardinal x 150 = 150
1 spy x 100 = 100
1 diplomat x 50 = 50 ---> Total Salaries = 900

[econ21]

I tested this with Scotland:
3 generals x 200 = 600
1 cardinal x 150 = 150
1 spy x 100 = 100
1 diplomat x 50 = 50 ---> Total Salaries = 900

Thanks, Nestor and sorry to the earlier posters for not cottoning on, earlier.

[econ21]

I'm reopening this thread, as SirRethcir contacted me to say the following:

There are a few mistakes in its conclusion.
Ok, here comes the right thing, I think: ;)

Wages:

General: 200
Admiral: 50
Princess: 250
Cardinal/Priest: 100
Merchant: 0
Diplomat: 50
Assassin: 200
Spy: 100

[PaulTa]

It was an age...without mercy. An age...without pity. An age...without properly trained and vetted accountants.