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One day, decay included

Set your career, play time and rent to see your daily plan and take-home money.

Your needs drain around the clock — even offline. Enter your shift pay and how long you’ll grind gigs, and this builds the day that keeps all six needs covered while the Naira adds up: the schedule, the needs ledger and the full P&L.

Net, the whole day: ₦56,650
Week, after everything: ₦396,550

Your day, your numbers

Careers database Career Rank Pay per shift (₦) Minutes of gig time after the shift

Rent, loan & perks Rent ₦0/week · LAPO ₦0/week · 0 perks

Weekly rent (₦) I have a LAPO loan (−₦12,000/week)

My perks

The needs ledger — 24h of decay, covered

Left: how far each need falls over a full 24h (decay runs offline too). Right: the verified cheapest recovery that covers it. Free sources we could not quantify (TV, dancing) are deliberately not assumed.

🍛 Hunger −134 → 8 meals

⚡ Energy −94 → Sleep at home (auto)

🎉 Fun −110 → 8 meals

💬 Social −36 → 3× Gist with Mama

🫧 Hygiene −98 → 2× shower at home

🚽 Bladder −170 → Toilet, as needed

Sleep, showers and the toilet are free at home — being home is the whole trick. Meals are Pepper Soup at the Amala Shitta counter: the only verified food that pays Fun back.

The optimal day

07:00

⚡ Wake up at home

Auto-sleep refilled Energy to 100% overnight — it cost ~14 Hygiene, the shower is next.

07:05

🚽 Toilet + shower

Free, at home. Clears the night before anything pays.

07:20

🍛 Breakfast — Pepper Soup ×2

First meals of the day; Fun is the bill that never sleeps (−110/day).

09:00

💼 Shift — 65 min → 8600

One shift per day inside your work window. Stay the full 5 minutes or it pays nothing.

10:15

📦 Buy & Resell ×5 → 33250

One ~20-minute cooldown cycle each at the Wholesale depot. Bring a ₦800 float.

12:30

🎯 Dailies + gem hunt

Today's Hustle ×3 and the daily gem — the biggest fixed lines of the day.

19:30

🍛 Dinner — Pepper Soup ×6

Space the remaining meals ~3h apart; eating past 100% wastes the surplus.

23:00

🛏️ Sleep at home

Be home by midnight — sleep only happens there, and it resets Energy for free.

The day, in Naira

Shift ₦8,600

Buy & Resell ×5 ₦33,250

Today's Hustle ×3 +₦15,000

Daily gem hunt +₦3,000

🍛Food — the Fun bill (8 meals) −₦3,200

Net, the whole day ₦56,650

Week, after everything ₦396,550

Green = money in · Gray = paid out · Struck old + green = your perks changed it

One good day nets ₦56,650 — ₦3,200 of it buys back a full day of decay.

Every rate here was measured in the live game (decay over an 8h offline window, paired meal reads, the 20-minute gig cooldown). Fun recovery assumes the verified meals only — free sources like TV exist but were never quantified, so treat the food line as an upper bound. If your screen shows different numbers, the game is right.

FAQ

What does a full day of decay cost in Lagos Life?

Over 24 hours your needs drain about 134 Hunger, 94 Energy, 110 Fun, 36 Social, 84 Hygiene and 170 Bladder points — decay runs offline too. Energy is free (auto-sleep refills it), toilet and showers are free at home, and three free Gists cover Social. The real bill is food: covering Fun and Hunger with verified meals costs about ₦3,200 a day — Fun is the most expensive need in Lagos Life.

What is the optimal daily routine?

Sleep at home (Energy refills, free), toilet + shower in the morning, work your shift inside its window (65 minutes, never leave early), spend leftover play minutes on Buy & Resell cycles (one ~20-minute cooldown each), clear the three daily missions (+₦15,000 — the biggest fixed line of the day) and grab the daily gem, eat a Pepper Soup roughly every three hours, and be home by midnight. Done right, a working day nets ₦35k+ after food.

How is this different from the Money Planner?

The Money Planner compares earn routes for the minutes you have; the Daily Optimizer adds the other half of the game — the 24h decay that runs whether you play or not — and shows the full routine that keeps all six needs covered while the Naira adds up. Same verified data layer, same cooldown and shift math, so the two tools can never disagree.

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