20 GTA Online businesses and money-making properties, each with a full guide: what it is, what you need first, how it makes money, which upgrades are worth it and what to buy next. GTA Online keeps adding businesses, so this grows with it.
Where to start
Each goal is a stated rule, not an opinion. Compare the businesses that meet one, or let the planner suggest what to buy next for it.
Getting started
No other business to buy first, and it can be run without a crew.
14 businesses · compare them
Playing solo
Every part of it can be done alone.
9 businesses · compare them
Passive income
It earns something while you do nothing — a safe, production or both.
8 businesses · compare them
Low management
Little to run day to day.
10 businesses · compare them
Heist access
Owning it unlocks a heist.
3 businesses · compare them
Unlocks and content
Owning it opens vehicles, research or content beyond itself.
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20 businesses
The office makes you a CEO for as long as you like: it pays through VIP/CEO Work and is the door to the crate and vehicle cargo businesses.
Buy crates at the office, steal them into your warehouses and sell them in bulk: the more you sell at once, the more each crate is worth.
Steal cars to order, store them in a warehouse that cannot be raided, and export them to the buyer that suits the car and your crew.
The base of a motorcycle club: it makes you an MC President, opens the MC businesses, and earns a little on the side through its bar, its contracts and bike servicing.
Five drug and forgery operations for a motorcycle club, from a Weed Farm to a Cocaine Lockup: keep them supplied, sell the stock they make, and defend them when they are raided.
An underground arms factory: staff turn supplies into weapons stock to sell, research new weapon and vehicle mods, and send out a regular Ammu-Nation delivery.
An aircraft hangar that doubles as a smuggling business: steal air freight cargo for free, store it, and fly it out to buyers for Ron.
A club with two incomes: daily takings in the safe that follow its popularity, and a basement warehouse where technicians gather goods from your other businesses for you to sell.
A garage and career base under the Maze Bank Arena: it converts and modifies Arena War vehicles and opens the Arena War career, but it makes no money of its own.
A residence on top of the Diamond Casino: it makes you a VIP member and opens Ms. Baker's Casino Work and the Casino story missions, but it produces nothing by itself.
A base that exists to host The Doomsday Heist and to house the Avenger and other weaponised vehicles; it runs no business of its own.
Lester's front for The Diamond Casino Heist: a games arcade with a planning basement underneath and a small office safe that fills from the cabinets on the floor.
A submarine you own and call in at sea, and the planning base for The Cayo Perico Heist, which is where all of its money comes from.
A tuning garage run with Sessanta and KDJ: modify customer cars to order and deliver them, plan robbery Contracts from the job board, and steal listed cars for Exotic Exports.
Franklin's fixer business: take Security Contracts that each raise a daily take paid into the office safe, answer Payphone Hits, and play the Dr. Dre VIP Contract.
A drug lab in the back of a six-wheeled truck: buy or steal supplies, let it brew, and deliver the product on the bike it carries. It cannot be raided.
A scrapyard that pays three ways: weekly car robberies for Yusuf, tow jobs that turn abandoned cars into scrap, and a safe that fills by itself each day.
A bounty-hunting business: pick fugitives off the office computer, bring them in alive for full pay, and hire agents whose own jobs fill the safe.
A clothing factory that fronts for The FIB Files: take on jobs for a former agent, collect a small daily income from the textile floor, and fit the Terrorbyte with upgrades sold nowhere else.
Three legitimate businesses that launder money for Mr. Faber: each pays passive income into the Car Wash safe as long as its Heat is kept down with honest work.
Not businesses
Owned for a home, storage or what they do for your businesses — not for income of their own.
Apartments
Apartments are homes and vehicle storage. A high-end apartment's planning room is where the original heists are set up, but the apartment itself earns nothing.
Garages
Garages store personal vehicles and earn nothing.
Galaxy Super Yacht
The Galaxy Super Yacht is a luxury home with its own co-op missions and a daily fee, and it produces no income of its own.
Mansions
A Mansion makes no money itself, but it changes how your businesses run: its concierge can boost one business's production each day, its office manages several businesses remotely, and an optional security team cuts raids.
About the numbers
Prices, payouts, production times and capacities appear here only once two independent checks agree on them. Anything less is held back and the guide says “not confirmed” rather than printing a number that may be wrong. GTA Online changes its economy often, so a figure is what we confirmed, not a promise.
Weekly bonuses and discounts are never part of a business’s figures. They appear on a guide only while their week is running, and this week’s page lists everything that is on.
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