PF2 Applying Credit With Pregens and Earn Income Rolls

[Rose Claymore]

I just finished running a Quest where all the players used level 5 pregens (Quest 5: The Dragon Who Stole Evoking Day). I know from the guide they may apply credit to a 1st level character receiving 1st level gold, but how does that affect Earn Income rolls? Seems like it's almost an automatic success for the pegens to make a check appropriate to a level 1 character, but would be receiving way to much gold if rolling a check appropriate to a level 5.

So, how are Earn Income checks resolved using high level pregens when applying credit to a level 1 character?

[Gary Bush]

Earned Income task level is character level - 2, min of 0. The Character earning the income is 1st level so the task level would 0. You would then use the pregen's skill to make the roll. Yes, this will likely result in a critical success.

At least that is how I understand the process would work.

[albadeon]

You make the Earn Income check at the DC appropriate for the pregen's level, in this case a check for a level 3 task. However, the guide states you only gain the gold appropriate to a 1st-level character. Thus you apply the result of that Earn Income-check to the task level 0 line on the table and use the amount listed here.

I.e.
crit fail: 0cp/d
fail: 2cp/d
success: 5cp/d
crit success: 2sp/d