The Contract GTA Online Guide: Dr. Dre, Agency & Payouts
The Contract GTA Online guide: how to start the Agency, run security contracts, and finish the Dr. Dre VIP Contract finale with full payouts.
The Contract GTA Online update put you in business with Franklin Clinton and tasked you with one job that mattered more than money: tracking down Dr. Dre's stolen phone before his unreleased music leaked. This guide covers the Agency, the security contracts that build passive income, and the Dr. Dre VIP Contract finale, with every payout you need to plan a run. The Contract landed on December 15, 2021 and remains one of the most lucrative additions to GTA Online.
What The Contract Adds
The Contract is built around a new business called the Agency, run under the banner of F. Clinton and Partner. Franklin Clinton serves as manager and co-CEO while your character owns the operation. An expert hacker named Imani handles the tech side, and a contact named Sessanta keeps the work flowing.
The package breaks down into three earning streams plus one story:
- Security Contracts, repeatable jobs that build daily passive income
- Payphone Hits, single-target assassination contracts with execution bonuses
- The Dr. Dre VIP Contract (officially "The Data Leaks"), the headline storyline
- Imani Tech vehicle upgrades, including a missile lock-on jammer and remote-control modules
How To Buy The Agency
You start The Contract by purchasing an Agency from the Dynasty 8 Executive website on your in-game phone. There are four properties to choose from, priced from roughly $2,010,000 to $2,830,000 depending on location. The cheapest gets you in the door with identical functionality, so location and your budget are the only real factors.
Once you own an Agency, the building gives you an office, a computer for accepting security contracts, the Agency Safe for passive income, and a vehicle workshop for Imani Tech. If you want to see how the Agency fits into your wider operation, the GTA Online hub lays out the businesses worth stacking.
Security Contracts And Passive Income
Security Contracts are repeatable jobs you accept from the Agency computer. They scale in difficulty and pay accordingly:
- Professional contracts: roughly $31,000 to $42,000
- Specialist contracts: roughly $44,000 to $56,000
- Specialist+ contracts: roughly $60,000 to $70,000
The bigger long-term reward is passive income. Every Security Contract you complete permanently adds $100 to your daily Agency Safe deposit, climbing to a cap of $20,000 per day. Reaching that ceiling takes roughly 201 completed contracts, so it is a long grind, but once it is built the safe fills on its own. The Agency Safe holds up to $250,000 before it stops accruing, so empty it regularly or you leave money on the table.
Payphone Hits
Payphone Hits are single-kill assassination contracts delivered through public phones, routed to you by Franklin on behalf of the Agency's high-paying clients. Each completed hit pays a base $15,000, but the extra value is the $30,000 bonus for executing the target using the specific method the briefing requests (a fall, an explosion, a particular weapon, and so on). Hit the bonus condition and a single payphone job is worth $45,000.
Rockstar reworked the loop in early 2024: the bonus dropped from its original $70,000, but the cooldown between hits was slashed from 48 minutes to about 10, so chaining hits now earns far more per hour than it used to. Learn each target's bonus method and Payphone Hits become one of the cleaner money loops in the game.
The Dr. Dre VIP Contract: The Data Leaks
The storyline unlocks after you complete a couple of Security Contracts from the Agency computer, at which point Franklin calls you in. The intro mission, On Course, sends Franklin and you to the Los Santos Golf Club to meet a potential client. That client is Dr. Dre, playing a round with DJ Pooh and Jimmy Iovine. Dre's phone has been stolen, and it holds unreleased music he is desperate to recover before it leaks.
The VIP Contract runs in a fixed sequence:
- On Course, the intro mission and golf-club meeting with Dre
- Setup: Data Recovery, an infiltration of the FIB building to grab the hard drive needed to track the phone
- The Nightlife Leak, tracing a signal to a Triad-owned nightclub
- The High Society Leak, chasing leads through the Pacific Bluffs Country Club
- The South Central Leak, following the trail into gang territory around Davis
- Studio Time, defending Record A Studios when hired gunmen storm the building
- Don't Fuck With Dre, the finale that ends the hunt
Each of the three Leak strands is itself a trio of missions (two intel jobs and a mini-heist finale), and all three Leaks must be cleared before the closing missions unlock. Imani provides the phone-tracking intel between missions.
The Dr. Dre Finale And Payouts
The finale, titled "Don't Fuck With Dre," opens at a railway station where you corner Johnny Guns, only for him to flee in his car. The chase ends at Los Santos International Airport, where a cutscene pays off the whole storyline as Dre settles the score with a 9-iron golf club. You then drive Dre to the Pacific Bluffs Country Club to close out the DLC.
The finale pays the host $1,000,000, the single largest reward in The Contract. Associates who help you finish it are paid out of the host's cut. Because the full VIP Contract chains a setup, three multi-mission investigations, a studio defense, and the finale, a first complete run takes several hours, but the seven-figure payout and the new music make it worth doing once before you settle into the repeatable contracts.
Music And Extras
The update brings new Dr. Dre tracks, headlined by a "Dre Day" takeover on the West Coast Classics station that mixes classic cuts with previously unreleased material. The update also added the MOTOMAMI Los Santos radio station hosted by ROSALÍA and Arca, and the announcement trailer used Dre's track "ETA" featuring Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, and Anderson .Paak. Record A Studios doubles as a social space where you can watch Dre and guest artists perform.
If you want to see the Agency and Dre's storyline in action, browse the GTA Online screenshots for a look at the locations this guide covers.
