4 Ways to Earn Tons of Money in Grand Theft Auto 5

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Make millions in GTA V’s Story Mode & Online

Written by Travis Boylls

Last Updated: November 21, 2025 Fact Checked

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Using Stock Market Influence

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Using Assassinations

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Sourcing Cars in GTA Online

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Quick Cash In GTA Online

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While there isn't a cheat code or any other instant way to increase your in-game money in Grand Theft Auto 5 (GTA V), there are a couple of ways that you can use the stock market to fulfill this goal. This wikiHow teaches you how to use GTA V's stock market to make an obscenely large amount of money. There are also a variety of ways you can earn quick cash in GTA Online.

Making Money in GTA 5

There is no infinite money cheat in GTA 5. However, you can game the stock market. Wait until a company's stock goes down in price. Purchase the company stock when it is low. Then go and attack their competitors' property or clientele. Wait for the stock value you purchased to increase and sell it.

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Using Stock Market Influence

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Understand the stock market competition system. In the GTA V stock market, each stock has a similar rival stock; destroying that rival's property or causing chaos at that rival's venue will cause their stock to lower, thus increasing their competitor's stock. The competition pairings are as follows:^{[1]
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- Coolbeans | BeanMachine
- Burgershot | Up-An-Atom
- Clucking Bell | TacoBomb
- FlyUS | AirEmu
- GoPostal | PostOP
- Bilkington | DollarPills
- Pißwasser | Logger
- MazeBank | BankOfLiberty
- Redwood | Debonaire
- Slaughter, Slaughter & Slaughter | Bullhead
- RadioLosSantos | WorldwideFM
- eCola | Raine
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Find a stock that you want to disrupt. For example, if your preferred in-game drink is eCola, attack every eCola delivery truck that you see.
- This becomes difficult for certain location-based vendors. However, going to the vendor's location and attacking bystanders there may work.
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Wait for the stock to go down in price. Once the stock for the brand that you've been harassing goes down in price, you can proceed with this method—or harass them more to cause the stock to fall further.
- Changes to a company's value may take a day or two of in-game time to reflect on the stock market.
- You can pass the time in GTA by going back to your character's house and sleeping.
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Buy the stock once it's cheap. With your chosen company successfully disrupted, the stock should be significantly cheaper than it was before, allowing you to buy a fair amount of stock in the company.
- The price of the stock will depend heavily upon the brand, the amount of damage done, and the current market in-game.
- It’s a good idea to save your game before investing. That way, if you accidentally lose money, you can reload your saved game and start over.
In the case of eCola, this would be Raine; simply find the corresponding competition and repeat your mayhem-inducing antics for them.
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Watch your invested stock rise in value. As you cause problems for the competitor, your invested stock should begin to rise again. Keep harassing the competition until you've made a profit, then repeat this process as much as you like.
- This is not the most lucrative use of the stock market in GTA V, but it is a good way to begin making some extra side cash early on in the game.
- Again, you can pass time in the game by sleeping at your character’s house. However, make sure you turn off autosave first. That way, if you do lose money, you can reload your last save and start the process over again.

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Using Assassinations

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Understand the concept. By investing in certain companies before killing their rivals' investors or owners in the assassination missions, you can make huge amounts of money. You'll have to wait until the story mode is over before doing this, since you won't have enough money to make a large profit until after the game's campaign is over.
- All of the assassination missions are completed by Franklin and given to him by Lester.^{[2]
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- Never complete the next mission in the sequence until all your stock shenanigans are finished.
You shouldn't complete any side assassinations for now, but the Hotel Assassination mission is mandatory to progress in the main story campaign. Before doing this mission, you'll want to invest all of your money in a stock that's guaranteed to go up.
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Invest all of your money in Beta Pharmaceuticals. This stock is listed on the BAWSAQ board. Performing the Hotel Assassination mission will cause this stock to increase in value.
- It's a good idea to save before you do this, just in case something goes wrong in the interim between buying the stock and completing the mission.
Doing so will result in a profit for you. At this point, you technically can wait three in-game days, buy Bilkington stock on the LCN, wait an in-game week, and then sell Bilkington off, but it's unnecessary and won't net you much profit.
It takes money to make money on the stock market; finishing the story mode will net roughly $25 million dollars for each character, after which point you can continue along to the rest of the assassination missions.
Debonaire may be pricey during this time, but you're going to drive its price way up by taking down Redwood investors.^{[3]
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After the mission is over, selling Debonaire on the LCN will net a huge profit, while purchasing the LCN's Redwood will be cheap.^{[4]
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Sell Redwood after its rebound. The rebound period may take a couple of days, so pass the time by sleeping in-game.
- As always, save before making any large stock investments or sales.
Buy Fruit on the BAWSAQ exchange, then do the mission and sell off Fruit immediately after.
Facade (BAWSAQ) will be significantly lower after Fruit skyrockets, so purchase as much as possible.^{[5]
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Sell off Facade after it rebounds. The rebound can take a couple of days, so make sure that you save before buying Facade and monitor the stock's peak level.
- You can normally sell Facade for a 30 percent profit, which should put you in the neighborhood of 2 billion dollars.
Vapid will rebound two days after the Bus Assassination, so you don't need to buy it before.
Vapid (BAWSAQ) will return to 100 percent, so plan accordingly.
The GoldCoast value will increase dramatically after the mission.^{[6]
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This is the final step in amassing your immeasurable fortune in GTA V!

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Using Vehicle Warehouses in GTA Online

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Buy an executive office in GTA Online. You can buy an executive office using the Dynasty8 website. The cheapest one costs $1 million in-game dollars. Since there is no infinite money cheat in GTA Online, you will need to invest a little money and put in some time setting up your business before you can make a ton of money.
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Buy a vehicle warehouse. Once you own an executive office, go to your office and get on the computer. Purchase a vehicle warehouse through the Securoserv network. They range in price from $1.5 million to $3 million.
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Start sourcing vehicles. To do so, go to the computer in your office and select your warehouse through Securoserv. Start a vehicle source mission. When you first start, the vehicles you source will be random. However, there is a way to set it up so that it only sources high-end vehicles. Once you source a vehicle, you will need to steal the vehicle and deliver it to your warehouse with as little damage as possible.
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Do not sell your low-end or mid-range vehicles. There are 32 vehicles in the import/export business. There are 10 low-end, 10 mid-range, and 12 high-end vehicles. The game avoids sourcing duplicate vehicles until you have one of each. Once you collect all low-end and mid-range vehicles, the game will only source high-end vehicles.
- If you do get any duplicates, go ahead and sell them.
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Export high-end cars only. Once you start sourcing high-end cars, go to the computer in your warehouse and select the car you want to sell. Select Export. Then select a buyer. To earn the most profit, sell to a specialized dealer.
- You can save time by inviting four other players to your CEO lobby and having them sell cars along with you. You will also earn a bonus for each player in your lobby.
- Be sure to keep the total number of vehicles in your warehouse under 32. Once you exceed 32 vehicles, the game will start sourcing duplicates, and you may get a low-end or mid-range vehicle.
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Deliver the vehicle. Once you deliver the vehicle, you can earn a commission of between $100,000 up to millions per sale, and it only takes about 10 minutes of work.^{[7]
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Other Ways to Make Money in GTA Online

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Participate in heists. Heists usually take about an hour to complete and can pay between $100,000 and $4,000,000. The Cayo Perico heists are good if you want to play solo. The Diamond heists are good if you want to play with a team of other players.^{[8]
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Watch out for double and triple-rewards events. Every week GTA Online has events that offer double or triple the rewards. Keep an eye out for these events and participate in them to earn double the money and RP.
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Empty the safe at your businesses. If you own any legitimate businesses in GTA Online, be sure to visit them every day and empty the safe.
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Spin the wheel at the Diamond Casino. You have about a 20% chance of earning between $20,000 and $50,000 dollars.
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Find Gerald’s cache. Gerald drops a package somewhere in Los Santos once per day. It can earn you roughly $20,000. The location changes each day.
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Clear out a stash house. In addition to a cache, you can also clear out a stash house for Gerald. The stash house is at a different location in Los Santos. Clear out all the enemies within and locate a sticky note with the safe combination. Open the safe to earn a little extra cash and some supplies for your businesses.^{[9]
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Rob a store. If you are looking for a quick way to earn a little extra cash, walk into a store and point a gun at the cashier. You can walk away with a couple of thousand in cash.
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Steal cars and sell them. Another quick way to earn money in GTA Online is to steal a car and sell it to Los Santos Customs. You can only do it a couple of times a day.

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Stock sales are final. While you can influence the stock market in the ways listed here, a bad trade isn't immediately reversible without a save.

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