My party has gotten to about 7th level, and they are starting to want to hire people. Mostly they own a shop in Sigil, and feel it has accumulated enough wealth that they want some guards for it. Are there any good supplements out there that deal with pricing npc hirelings? I know there are always circumstances to consider, but a baseline price would be good to establish. I told my group for now npc level squared in gold per day. Does that sound reasonable to people?
The DMG pretty much covers it - also, check out the Leadership Feat which might be available at 7th level (could be 10th). There are some important differences btwn hirelings, followers and cohorts that you may wanna look at. For hirelings tho, you could make up your own pay scale. Keeping in mind that a day's labour is worth 1sp/day you might want to just pay them a little more than that and maybe a bonus if they actually have to get weapons out in anger - kind of a danger bonus.
Dave.