Lodgings, food, and basic amenities such as utilities, clothing, etc. are all usually provided by the agency on a standardized, livable level. Each citizen receives a salary through their agency on a perigee basis calculated based on caste, occupation, seniority, workplace evaluation, penal record, and that agency's positional budget allotment that quarter. This salary can be used for the purchase of personal items such as clothing, devices, improvements to one's hiveblock (depending on where they live), higher quality food from vendors, and so on. Gross inequality of income is a fact of life, but given that no troll will starve or be made hiveless no matter what, even a rustblood janitor can expect to at least survive.

Provided a clean record and quality work, most trolls can expect a pay raise to the tune of about one to two percent by the end of the sweep. Fines or pay dockings may be and frequently are issued for disciplinary reasons, or if a recession occurs in the regional economy. Rarely does an economic phenomenon spread throughout the entire galaxy, however, as a factor of scale and distance.

Her Empire is a brutal regime to which biological oppression is central. Governmental scrutiny heightens and social mobility diminishes the lower one is born on the hemospectrum. The overwhelming majority of trolls do not have freedom of movement nor a say in what work they will do for their entire life. Though some minor aesthetic mutations are considered permissible from a legal standpoint, perceived genetic flaws of any kind are often discriminated against by the general populace. Weakness of any form, be it illness, remorse, shame, or cowardice, are a strike against one's character. The ability to keep one's flaws well hidden is itself a virtue of sorts, and thus a highly valued trait.

That being said, senseless abuse and violence is by no means tolerated. If a highblood is to get away with smacking a lowblood senseless, they need a good reason in order to avoid punishment under the law; of course, a highblood's word is more likely to be taken at face value, and their disproportionate representation in positions of power is by design. Highbloods will on average receive lighter penalties than lowbloods, but victims of crimes usually stand a chance in court provided undeniable evidence. Corruption is a serious crime that results in the most cullings by executor dispatch than any other form of criminal offense. It's not that life is uniquely valued, rather that control over a citizen's life is tightly held onto by the agency which employs them. Because of this, the wellbeing of the employee not to be handed over to just any highblood with a superiority complex.

Transfer between locations within an agency as deemed necessary, or even transfer between agencies, is fairly common. Employees, regardless of their assignment, station, or caste, can expect to be transferred between several different locations in their lifetime, with jobs on spacefaring vessels (as opposed to stations and planets) being especially temporary, usually only lasting a few sweeps at most. Penal transfer is also a possibility, where the punishment for a crime may include, alongside other potential penalties, transfer to a penal location for some amount of time, transfer to a different job or department entirely, or both. The most common penal transfer for the empire's worst offenders is one straight into an active combat role within a ground troop division at the frontier of the empire, a sure death sentence for most.