How does James Bond get paid?

Ammo08Ammo08 Missouri, USAPosts: 387MI6 Agent
in General James Bond Chat
Is he paid according to his rank as Commander in the Royal Navy? is he on some other pay scale? Would he have a bank account with his name on it (what a security nightmare)? I don't think I have ever seen any information on this in the books or movies.
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    In one of the books, I think a figure of around £3000 a year is mentioned ( for the early 1950s) but I
    Think there is a thread about it, with more information.
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  • zaphod99zaphod99 Posts: 1,415MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    In one of the books, I think a figure of around £3000 a year is mentioned ( for the early 1950s) but I
    Think there is a thread about it, with more information.

    It is mentioned in one of the books in some detail. He has a modest private income as well as his salary. He lives quite frugaly when not on a mission. He also makes some money gambling.
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  • bond2002bond2002 UKPosts: 55MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    In one of the books, I think a figure of around £3000 a year is mentioned ( for the early 1950s) but I
    Think there is a thread about it, with more information.

    i looked that up on one of those sites where they convert the sum from the time to now it would be nearly 100 thousand pound not a bad salary :))
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    It's a living :D
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  • always shakenalways shaken LondonPosts: 6,287MI6 Agent
    im sure Bond is subject to the usual civil service pay scales ,which as we know he supplements with his private income from his parent s estate and his gambling
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  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 4,109MI6 Agent
    I believe this is dealt with in Moonraker ... the first couple of chapters Fleming takes us on a tour of Universal Exports, introducing us to Bonds coworkers and showing us a typical boring workday when Bond doesn't have fieldwork to do

    I was just skimming through OHMSS and there we learn how much M earns ... Bond visits M in his home on Christmas day to plot the assault on Piz Gloria, and speculates (to himself) that even on a senior civil servant's salary M could not possibly afford this fancy estate
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    This earlier thread may be of interest in this context: http://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/41816/bonds-wages-frwl/
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
    Yes, there is a chapter early on in Ian Fleming's Moonraker (1955) that deals with this issue in the most detail. It should answer a few questions!

    And yes, James Bond is a ostensibly civil servant and is paid on the appropriate scale. It even mentions that Bond is classed as a civil servant in The Times obituary featured in You Only Live Twice (1964).
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
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