On page 159 of the pathfinder core rulebook it states that a spellcasing service costs CL*spell level*10gp. Is this intended for player use if they sell uses of spells? For example, a PC at CL 10 sells spells at a minimum of 100gp a pop, and by RAI aren't high level spell-caster's rare and thus in demand?
At that point though you are operating a business and should use those rules in Ultimate Campaign.
Just because you can charge that much doesn't mean you will have the clients. So, it becomes a business. Can you get the clients, who are your competitors, etc.
Anyhow, most people do not want to role-play a business. :)
Mostly i was thinking of how PC's could scrounge for coin without a craft/ perform/ profession check. in which case is this toomuch gold for a 10'th level party, or reasonable? Assuming they don't create a store.
If they're scrounging you might let it works once it a while, but realistically most people shouldn't have the money to pay for spell casting. And even then, divine spells will be more in demand than arcane spells. And most of the divine spells are likely to be provided by a local cleric of a good god, provided that once exists. Otherwise, anything else would likely be a luxury.
hmmm... so it seems to me that its tied directly to location wealth, so it never works in a small hamlet, but a few times in a large metropolis.
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You want to use this as a PC, but it's an even better tool for a GM.
If the GM has a roleplaying reason to engage you (e.g. the village elder offers you money to remove a curse on a young child, which leads to an adventure), or simply feels he needs to give you money (e.g. you're broke and need travelling money and it's bogging down the adventure), the GM can always have someone approach you offering to pay for spellcasting services.
The downtime rules are quite clear on this, as listed above. If you aren't doing 'skilled work', you can choose to do work using 'class abilities'. The reason it seems so much lower than the going rate for spellcasting services, is that it is abstracting the inconsistent earning opportunities over days. The odds of having someone come to you every day to have you cast spell after spell is slim. (Have you ever gone back to that town spellcaster day after day paying 10*cl*sl every single day)?
I will say, though, that Craft/Perform/Profession aren't he only skills that can earn you money. Depending on the RP spin you put on it, any skill can be used as a potential source of income. Ultimate Campaign lists out quite a few different ones, with some great RP examples of how to explain their use.
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As anyone who has ever worked freelance will tell you, the job is not the thing you do, the job is finding paying customers for the thing you do.