Reputation (Payday 2) (2024)

Reputation in PAYDAY 2 acts as a leveling system. In order to level up, the player must accumulate a certain amount of XP (experience points). The amount needed ranges from 900 XP (level 0 to 1) to 1,000,000 XP (level 99 to 100) with the curve being very gentle at the lower levels and steep at the higher ones. In total, a little over 23 million XP is required to reach level 100, at which point the player can become Infamous.

Factors affecting earned XP[]

The experience variables are applied in this sequence at the end of each day of a successful heist. Any values not granting XP (for example the risk bonus on normal) are skipped in the XP build up segment during a payday.

These are calculated in order, the result used for many calculations afterwards;

• Heist experience
• Potential experience penalty (as listed in Level Limit)
• Risk reward experience modifier, as seen in Risk level:
  • Normal - 1x
  • Hard - 3x
  • Very Hard 6x
  • Overkill = 10x
  • Mayhem = 11.5x
  • Death Wish = 13x
  • Death Sentence = 14x
• 30% XP penalty if heist ends with player in custody.

The above total is used in the following bonuses which are applied additively:

• Skill bonus: 45% from having the Blending In perk active from tier 4 of all Perk Decks.
• Additional bonuses from Team Boosts
• Infamy bonus: 5-205% depending on Infamy rank;
• Crew Alive bonus: 10% per escaping heister (excluding the player itself), up to 30%;
• Limited time bonuses (e.g. 100% during Spring Break 2015)
• Community Challenges bonuses (e.g The Search for Kento event)
• Gage Mod Packages Bonus (5% if all packages are found)

The following XP modifiers are multiplicative with the above and with each other:

• Any stealth bonus (0-25%) from a previous heist will be applied to the entire value;
• Experience Penalty/Boost (see Heat System below)

Experience table[]

Level	XP required		% complete
	From prev. level	In total
1	900	901	0.0039
2	1,250	2,150	0.0092
3	1,550	3,700	0.0159
4	1,850	5,550	0.0238
5	2,200	7,750	0.0332
6	2,600	10,350	0.0444
7	3,000	13,350	0.0572
8	3,500	16,850	0.0722
9	4,000	20,850	0.0893
10	4,600	25,450	0.1091
11	4,601	30,051	0.1288
12	4,611	34,662	0.1485
13	4,637	39,299	0.1684
14	4,687	43,986	0.1885
15	4,771	48,757	0.2089
16	4,895	53,652	0.2299
17	5,068	58,720	0.2516
18	5,299	64,019	0.2743
19	5,595	69,614	0.2983
20	5,965	75,579	0.3239
21	6,417	81,996	0.3514
22	6,959	88,955	0.3812
23	7,600	96,555	0.4138
24	8,347	104,902	0.4495
25	9,208	114,110	0.4890
26	10,193	124,303	0.5327
27	11,308	135,611	0.5811
28	12,563	148,174	0.6349
29	13,965	162,139	0.6948
30	15,523	177,662	0.7613
31	17,245	194,907	0.8352
32	19,139	214,046	0.9172
33	21,213	235,259	1.0081
34	23,476	258,735	1.1087
35	25,935	284,670	1.2199
36	28,599	313,269	1.3424
37	31,476	344,745	1.4773
38	34,574	379,319	1.6254
39	37,902	417,221	1.7879
40	41,467	458,688	1.9655
41	45,278	503,966	2.1596
42	49,342	553,308	2.3710
43	53,670	606,978	2.6010
44	58,267	665,245	2.8507
45	63,143	728,388	3.1213
46	68,306	796,694	3.4140
47	73,763	870,457	3.7300
48	79,524	949,981	4.0708
49	85,596	1,035,577	4.4376
50	91,988	1,127,565	4.8318
51	98,707	1,226,272	5.2548
52	105,762	1,332,034	5.7080
53	113,161	1,445,195	6.1929
54	120,913	1,566,108	6.7110
55	129,025	1,695,133	7.2639
56	137,506	1,832,639	7.8531
57	146,363	1,979,002	8.4803
58	155,606	2,134,608	9.1471
59	165,242	2,299,850	9.8552
60	175,279	2,475,129	10.6063
61	185,726	2,660,855	11.4022
62	196,591	2,857,446	12.2446
63	207,881	3,065,327	13.1354
64	219,606	3,284,933	14.0764
65	231,774	3,516,707	15.0696
66	244,392	3,761,099	16.1169
67	257,468	4,018,567	17.2202
68	271,012	4,289,579	18.3815
69	285,031	4,574,610	19.6029
70	299,533	4,874,143	20.8864
71	314,527	5,188,670	22.2342
72	330,021	5,518,691	23.6484
73	346,022	5,864,713	25.1312
74	362,540	6,227,253	26.6847
75	379,582	6,606,835	28.3113
76	397,156	7,003,991	30.0131
77	415,271	7,419,262	31.7926
78	433,936	7,853,198	33.6521
79	453,157	8,306,355	35.5940
80	472,943	8,779,298	37.6206
81	493,303	9,272,601	39.7345
82	514,245	9,786,846	41.9381
83	535,776	10,322,622	44.2340
84	557,906	10,880,528	46.6247
85	580,642	11,461,170	49.1128
86	603,992	12,065,162	51.7010
87	627,965	12,693,127	54.3919
88	652,569	13,345,696	57.1883
89	677,811	14,023,507	60.0928
90	703,701	14,727,208	63.1083
91	730,247	15,457,455	66.2375
92	757,456	16,214,911	69.4833
93	785,336	17,000,247	72.8486
94	813,897	17,814,144	76.3363
95	843,146	18,657,290	79.9493
96	873,091	19,530,381	83.6906
97	903,741	20,434,122	87.5633
98	935,104	21,369,226	91.5703
99	967,187	22,336,413	95.7149
100	1,000,000	23,336,413	100.0000

By the time a player has reached level 100 of the 500th and final tier of infamy, they will have attained an equivalent of 50100 levels, and almost 12 billion experience points. Note that reputation 0 counts as a separate "level" from reputation 1, meaning there are 101 reputational figures per Infamy tier.

Heist experience reward from lowest to highest[]

There are specific events that give exp per heist as listen in the above table. This list assumes that you have done all of the heist experience events with some notable exceptions on some specific heists (such as Cook Off) This table also lists the exp rewards with the Death Sentence (14.0x) multiplier and Blending In multiplier (45%) combined, as well as separate combined exp rewards with Infamy X (75%) and Infamy XXV (205%) multipliers. It will not list Stealth Bonus (5-25%) multipliers nor the the Gage Package (5%) multiplier nor the Heat Bonus multiplier which can vary from negative to positive depending on how many times the player has run those heists. Note that multipliers do not stack multiplicatively except for the Risk multiplier. Every extra multiplier takes from the Base EXP + Risk EXP Risk Multiplier multiplied by Base EXP and then all multipliers take this number and add the multipliers there.

Reader note: This table is out of date and contains some misinformation. Feel free to edit it

credit to b33croft's video for reference

Level Limit[]

A limit to the experience was placed in the game to reduce the experience that lower-level players will receive from higher level heists. This is designed to discourage low level players from joining higher difficulty and more complicated heists until they are of an adequately high level.This limit only applies to the basic heist XP and experience bonuses from skills, infamy, stealth, and Risk Level are applied as usual, though lowered as they're calculated from the basic XP value.

Every heist in the game is given a value known as a "jc" value to represent the approximate level of difficulty of the heist. This value determines how high a level you have to be to not get an XP-penalty applied upon finishing, the level you need to be to be able to host it on One Down after going infamous, and has a minor influence in which heists appear on crime.net. The only possible jc values for a heist are 5 (used for the Laundromat Safe House), 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70.

The table below lists the jc values assigned to each heist.

To calculate experience, a player's current level is rounded up to the nearest multiple of 10. This number represents the maximum jc value heist that a player can still complete to obtain the full amount of experience. For example, a level 43 player will be able to complete heists up to a jc level of 50 with no experience penalty.

XP penalty multiplier is calculated as: 1 - [jc(heist) - jc(player)]/100

Ex. A level 16 player runs Hoxton Revenge. The jc(player) = 20. The jc(heist) = 40. The calculation is therefore 1 -[40-20]/100 = 0.8 xp multiplier. This is multiplicative with all other multipliers because it affects the base xp reward.

Heat System[]

The experience penalty/boost system was introduced to prevent players from farming certain heists and encouraging them to play heists they usually don't play.

An experience modifier assigned to a heist is not dictated by difficulty. For example, if you have an experience modifier on the Shadow Raid heist, then that modifier will still apply whatever difficulty level is chosen.

The same modifier applies to both the online and offline Crime.net.

Experience Penalty[]

An experience penalty is automatically assigned to heists that you've played too much in a short period of time. This penalty will increase if you keep playing. Penalties can be randomly added to certain heists on Crime.net as well.

Like other bonuses and penalties, the heat penalties are not shared, meaning that if you start a heist with an XP penalty, the penalty will only apply to you and not to any other players that are playing the heist with you.

Penalties reduce the total heist XP reward by a percentage calculated by the number of times that particular heist has been played in quick succession combined with other variables such as chosen difficulty level.

The penalty is applied after all the other XP bonuses as seen in the list above.

The maximum reduction is -30%.

Experience Boost[]

An experience boost is automatically and randomly added to heists not completed for some time. This is done to make certain heists (heists played less often) more attractive. The heist bonus will remain in effect until the heist is successfully completed.

An experience boost is the opposite of an experience penalty. Instead of reducing the total XP outcome of a heist, it increases it by the given percentage. After completing a heist with an experience boost, the boost will be removed, restoring the heist's XP outcome to default.

The boost only applies to you. If you start a heist and other players join, they will not benefit from the XP boost (unless they have a boost as well).

The boost is applied after all the other XP bonuses as seen in the list above.

The maximum boost is +15%.

Experience Boost/Penalty Distribution[]

After completing a heist, there's a random chance of a boost being added to a heist that you haven't played for a while. If the heist you completed is one that you've already recently completed, then chances are that a penalty will occur for that heist.

Stealth Bonus[]

A stealth bonus is automatically obtained after successfully completing a stealth-able heist without raising the alarm. Such heists are usually indicated with a stealth icon and will indicate the value of the stealth bonus in their description.

The stealth bonus is applied to the player's XP reward for the following heist, leaving this heist will remove the bonus. Restarting within a heist does not remove the bonus.

The bonus also only applies to you unless the other players have their stealth bonus. The stealth bonus may vary for different players even in missions of the same type, such as Framing Frame.

The bonus is applied after the other XP bonuses such as the increased XP from the perk deck, Gage Courier Packages and Infamy Bonus. However, it does not add on to the experience boost as the stealth bonus is applied prior to the experience boost.

The maximum bonus is +25%.

Note that stealth bonuses are independent of difficulty level. It can, therefore, be advantageous to complete a quick and easy stealth-able mission (e.g. Four Stores or Jewelry Store) in order to quickly earn a stealth bonus before making an attempt on high XP heists on Deathwish. Certain heists calculate the total stealth bonus dependant on days successfully stealthed.

List of stealth bonuses[]

Infamy[]

Short version: Level 25 infamy and above gives a 205% bonus in XP, 250% when paired with a complete perk deck.

Bonus: Calculations on levelling[]

Experience requirements for levels 1-10 are linear, however after level 10, the experience follows the formula:.

Total experience required can be calculated using:Failed to parse (SVG with PNG fallback (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle 1.3654321*((Level-10)*(Level-9)/2)^2 + 4600*(Level-10) + 25450}

(Results may be very slightly different in game (1 or 2 points) due to rounding errors).

Trivia[]

• Prior to Update 35, the maximum XP boost was +50% and the maximum reduction was -100%. The maximum stealth bonus was also +50%.
  • Due to a mistake in update 35, Diamond Store's stealth bonus was increased from +30% to +50%. This was fixed in update 35.1 to the intended value of +5%.
• The stealth icon is based on the ghosts from Pac-Man.
• The reputation limit for the PAYDAY 2 demo is level 10.
• A heist's heat bonus will be cancelled if the next instance of it is purchased from the broker instead of started through the Crime.net map.
• The stealth bonus remains in effect if a failed heist is restarted within the game, without exiting to lobby.

External Links[]

• EXP Boost Guide

Achievements[]

You Gotta Start Somewhere Reach reputation level 5.

Guilty of Crime Reach reputation level 10.

Smooth Criminal Reach reputation level 25.

Armed and Dangerous Reach reputation level 50.

Career Criminal Reach reputation level 75.

Most Wanted Reach reputation level 100.