Auto Shops

Auto Shops are medium-income service businesses. Run contracts and jobs for payouts: you get paid per completion, with no supplies or stock to manage. Added in the Los Santos Tuners update, with 5 locations from $1,670,000.

Buy-in from
$1,670,000
Income
Medium income
Added in
Los Santos Tuners
Requires
No property

Full guide

All About Auto Shops in GTA Online

Contract payouts, Exotic Exports, customer cars, and which upgrades are actually worth buying.

Income

Contracts

Union Depository Contract

Payout
$300,000

The Superdollar Deal (best of the rest)

Payout
$185,000

Exotic Exports (daily list)

Payout
$300,000
Capacity
10 vehicle

Customer car delivery (top tier)

Payout
$30,000

Figures are estimates. How we determined these numbers

Upgrades

Staff Member 1

staff

$385,000

An employee who can customize and deliver customer cars for you; damage they cause on the drive is deducted from the payout.

Staff Member 2

staff

$385,000

A second employee, so staff can handle both customer cars once the Car Lift is installed.

Car Lift

capacity

$650,000

Adds a second customer car slot: two customer vehicles in the shop at once, and new cars arrive more often.

Personal Quarters

other

$340,000

Lets you spawn at the Auto Shop, with a wardrobe, gun locker, and bed.

5 locations

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How we determined these numbers

Income figures are community-measured estimates. Expand a section for the assumptions behind each number.

Contracts

Union Depository Contract (Base)

Solo gross payout; scales to GTA$ 375,000 with four players. Sessanta and KDJ take a 10% cut, so a solo leader banks GTA$ 270,000. Each contract also pays a one-time GTA$ 75,000 first-completion bonus to the leader.

The Superdollar Deal (best of the rest) (Base)

The seven contracts besides Union Depository pay GTA$ 170,000 to GTA$ 185,000 gross before the 10% cut. Up to three contracts sit on the board at a time, and a completed contract returns after a roughly one-hour cooldown.

Exotic Exports (daily list) (Base)

GTA$ 20,000 per delivered vehicle plus a GTA$ 100,000 bonus for completing all 10 on the list. The list resets every real-time day and is shared across the session. Unlocked after your first completed Robbery Contract.

Customer car delivery (top tier) (Base)

Customer cars pay GTA$ 20,000 to GTA$ 30,000 by vehicle tier, with the mod fee refunded on delivery. Cars arrive roughly once per in-game day; the Car Lift adds a second slot. Staff can deliver, but damage they cause is deducted from the payment.

Auto Shops discount history 15 weeks

Weekly sales

  • 2026-05-21 – 2026-05-27 −40%
  • 2026-01-22 – 2026-01-28 −40%
  • 2025-01-30 – 2025-02-05 −30%
  • 2024-11-21 – 2024-11-27 −30%
  • 2024-06-06 – 2024-06-12 −40%
  • 2024-01-25 – 2024-01-31 −30%
  • 2023-09-21 – 2023-09-27 −40%
  • 2023-07-20 – 2023-07-26 −40%
  • 2023-05-18 – 2023-05-24 −30%
  • 2022-11-24 – 2022-11-30 −40%
  • 2022-09-22 – 2022-09-28 −40%
  • 2022-06-23 – 2022-06-29 −30%
  • 2022-05-19 – 2022-05-25 −30%
  • 2022-02-03 – 2022-02-09 −30%
  • 2021-09-02 – 2021-09-08 −20%