The high cost of living

Many would say hiring and using a servant will make construction training go much faster. Let's look at the cost of using the servants to run noted logs to the sawmill.

The earliest servant to take noted logs is the cook, who will unnote and carry back 16 planks. She's available at level 30 construction, but for this we'll hire her at level 33, the level we can make oak larders. Her salary is 3,000 gp upon hiring and per every eight trips afterwards. In order to reach level 99, we need to make 27,118 oak larders (216,944 oak logs). If we take 24 oak planks with us for the first trip and have the cook convert the remaining oak logs into planks, we'll need 59,324,000 gp to cover the costs of her salary (5,088,000 gp) and oak log payments (54,236,000 gp).

A little over five million gold extra paid because we're too lazy to convert our own logs. Of course, this is sticking with the cook. How much would it cost if we upgraded to the butler and then to the demon butler at the appropriate levels?

The amount of oak larders stays the same - 27,118 (216,944 logs) - and we'll already have 24 oak planks ready. Taking on the cook from levels 33-40, we'll pay out 60k. Then we hire the butler for 5,000 gp from levels 40-50 for 275k. Now for the demon butler! He costs 10k to hire and will convert 26 logs into planks. So, from level 50-99, the demon butler will want 10,380,000 gp for his salary and the oak planks will cost 53,888,000 gp for a grand total of 64,603,000 gp spent. 10,367,000 gp spent hiring and paying servants.