Career cheats in The Sims 4: promotion, performance, gigs and retirement

A career cheat is a console command that changes a Sim's job state directly: hiring them, moving them a level, setting work performance or retiring them. Thirty-one are registered and reachable in build 1.126.73.1030, all in one module, and each row below carries the line it is declared at. Four have an effect we could establish from the code they call; the other twenty-seven are listed with their signature and nothing invented on top.

Every career command in the shipped game

Sort any column. Filter on Pack to isolate the three expansion-gated commands from the twenty-eight base-game ones. The Registry type column shows which commands the game itself flags as cheats.

"Not established" is literal. The command is registered and reachable at the line given, but no registry entry in this build carries a description, and this site has not play-tested the result.

The four with a documented effect

Each of these takes the career identifier first and an optional Sim after it. Leave the Sim argument off and the command applies to the Sim you currently have selected, which is the usual way to run them. Promote does not jump to the top of a track in one call; run it once per level.

The career name argument

Every one of these four needs a career_type value, and this page does not print a list of them. The identifiers are tuning names that sit outside the extracted command registry, so anything listed here would be guesswork. Look at the Arguments column: where it says career_type, the game expects a name and will not act without one.

The gap is deliberate. An identifier list with no stated origin is worse than none, because a wrong name makes the command fail silently and you end up debugging the console instead of the name.

Turn cheats on before you type anything

EA's cheat FAQ says to open the console and type testingcheats true before entering a cheat. Do it after every load. A career command that appears to do nothing usually means you opened the console without switching cheats on.

Nine career commands are registered as Cheat type in the shipped code: promote, demote, add_career, remove_career, retire, lay_off, add_performance, set_performance and set_performance_percentage. The other twenty-two are registered as Live. This site has not tested whether the Live ones work with cheats disabled, so switch cheats on either way.

Opening the console on each platform

EA's page names PlayStation 4 and Xbox One specifically, so this page does the same rather than extending the claim to later hardware. Press Enter after typing. On console, the same shoulder-button combination closes the console again.

EA also states that the cheats requiring testingcheats true are the ones that disable achievements in the current save, and that other saves are unaffected. Career cheats fall on the cheat side of that line.

Performance commands

Three commands touch work performance: set_performance takes an amount, set_performance_percentage takes a percent, and add_performance takes an amount too. Whether that amount is added to the current value or replaces it is not established, so the table says so. All three are registered as Cheat type and all three take a career_type.

None of the three carries a description in the registry, so the scale the amount is measured on is not stated here. The percentage variant is the one to reach for if you want a value you can reason about without knowing that scale.

Gig commands

Ten commands deal with gigs rather than salaried tracks: cancelling one gig, the current gig or all of them, revealing client preferences, replacing a preference category, and clearing or deleting gig photo history. They sit in two ranges of the module, lines 880 to 981 and lines 1038 to 1103.

Five of the ten want a gig or active_gig alongside the Sim and the career, which means they operate on a gig already in progress rather than on the career as a whole.

Pack-gated commands

The registry stores the requirement as a pack code. This page prints the code rather than a retail pack name, because the code-to-title mapping was not part of the extraction and translating it would mean trusting a third party. Without the matching expansion installed, these three will not be available.

What this page does not claim

• No career list, no career levels, no promotion requirements. Those are tuning values, not command registrations.
• No salaries and no best-career ranking. There is no verified pay figure in the extraction to rank on.
• Twenty-seven of the thirty-one have no effect we could establish and are presented as signatures only.
• No pack names for EP13 or EP21, only the codes the registry actually stores.

Where to go next

If the point of the promotion was the paycheque, the commands on money cheat code sims 4 get there in one line instead of ten. If a skill requirement is what blocks the next level, skills cheat sims 4 covers the commands that set skills directly. To promote a Sim by clicking rather than typing a career identifier you do not have, ui cheat covers the mod that exposes career level in the interface.