Original analysis
Ranked by Payout Per Minute
I built the payout calculator on this site, and what kept bothering me is that a ranked payout table answers the wrong question — nobody has an unlimited clock. So I divided each heist's midpoint payout by its midpoint duration and re-sorted.
The list reorders itself
Vault Truck Escape tops it at roughly GTA$120,000 a minute — about 2.6x the Sinfrontera bank job, despite paying less in absolute terms. Short duration does the work. 15 of 16 heists have both a payout and a duration; the planning hub has neither.
- 1. Vault Truck Escape
- GTA$120,000/min
- 2. Vice City Casino Heist (Speculation)
- GTA$86,667/min
- 3. Sinfrontera National Bank Heist
- GTA$46,000/min
- 4. Vice City Art Gallery Heist
- GTA$42,000/min
- 5. Armored Truck Heist (Speculation)
- GTA$40,000/min
- 6. Armored Cash Truck (Brinks-Style)
- GTA$40,000/min
- 7. Vice City Jewel Store Heist
- GTA$40,000/min
- 8. Yacht Heist (Leonida Keys)
- GTA$12,500/min
- 9. Cartel Drug Lab Raid
- GTA$12,400/min
- 10. Port Gellhorn Warehouse Heist
- GTA$9,429/min
- 11. Leonida Keys Drug Trade
- GTA$6,250/min
- 12. Diner Robbery — Hank's Waffles
- GTA$2,727/min
- 13. Convenience Store Robbery
- GTA$2,429/min
- 14. Uncle Jack's Liquor Robbery
- GTA$1,583/min
- 15. Gas Station Stick-up (Xero Gas)
- GTA$1,400/min
Payout rate against wanted level
- Tier 1 - confirmed
- Tier 2 - verified leak
- Tier 3 - speculation
| Entry | Wanted-level ceiling | Estimated payout per minute | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sinfrontera National Bank Heist | 6 | 46,000 | Tier 1 - confirmed |
| Diner Robbery — Hank's Waffles | 3 | 2,727 | Tier 2 - verified leak |
| Convenience Store Robbery | 3 | 2,429 | Tier 1 - confirmed |
| Vault Truck Escape | 6 | 120,000 | Tier 1 - confirmed |
| Leonida Keys Drug Trade | Not available | 6,250 | Tier 2 - verified leak |
| The Vault — Planning HQ | Not available | Not available | Tier 2 - verified leak |
| Armored Truck Heist (Speculation) | 4 | 40,000 | Tier 3 - speculation |
| Vice City Casino Heist (Speculation) | 6 | 86,667 | Tier 3 - speculation |
| Uncle Jack's Liquor Robbery | 2 | 1,583 | Tier 1 - confirmed |
| Yacht Heist (Leonida Keys) | Not available | 12,500 | Tier 2 - verified leak |
| Armored Cash Truck (Brinks-Style) | 4 | 40,000 | Tier 2 - verified leak |
| Vice City Jewel Store Heist | 5 | 40,000 | Tier 3 - speculation |
| Cartel Drug Lab Raid | 3 | 12,400 | Tier 2 - verified leak |
| Port Gellhorn Warehouse Heist | 4 | 9,429 | Tier 2 - verified leak |
| Vice City Art Gallery Heist | 5 | 42,000 | Tier 3 - speculation |
| Gas Station Stick-up (Xero Gas) | 2 | 1,400 | Tier 1 - confirmed |
How this is calculated
Payout is the midpoint of our estimated range; duration is the midpoint of the estimated range. Both are pre-release estimates for an unreleased game — Rockstar has published no heist pricing. Every row carries its tier, and a high rank on a TIER 3 row is a ranked guess, not a finding.
One heist is excluded from the ranking for having no payout or no duration. Three more carry no wanted-level rating in their source description, so they are absent from the plot above but present in the list. When Rockstar publishes real numbers this page gets rebuilt, not year-swapped.