Hirelings

Hirelings perform tasks at your behest, and require payment in return. When no payment is given in advanced or within 7 days, hirelings desert, and if the structure requires these hirelings, the structure ceases functioning or offering benefits.

Slaves are typically bought for 500gp in various markets or captured in conquests. They do not need to be payed regularly, only at the time of being bought.

Unskilled hirelings only offer menial work, but skilled hirelings come trained in specific skills. Choose one proficiency your skilled hireling has when you first pay them, and they make checks in that proficiency at a +5 (including their ability score and proficiency bonus). Other skilled hirelings might be acquired through adventures, at GM discretion.

Soldiers and spellcasters can also be payed as hirelings, which follow the statblocks on the appropriate page of the Monster Manual. They count as required skilled hirelings, but no longer fill that requirement if dispatched or relocated.