Skyrim Gold - The Best, Fastest Methods For How To Earn Money And ...

Other ways to earn Gold and make money in Skyrim

If you want to make money in Skyrim without the grind of maxing your crafting skills first, there are, fortunately, several options available to you. Questing, looting, and generally just doing stuff in the world will provide you with a trickle of income that's enough to cover the costs of your Health Potions and occasional new weapons.

But there are some more specific quests, storylines and methods you can put into practice, and here we'll explain some of the best non-max-level-crafting methods for you:

Get Married:

Yep, turns out tying the knot can actually earn you a nice regular income, with your spouse offering you 100 Gold per day, every day, once you've wed. Take a look at our guide on how to get married in Skyrim for more details on how you can do that.

Craft Potions:

Another crafting option, we know, but this way doesn't require maximum level skills. Instead, you can do the following:

1. Buy up all the ingredients from an alchemist.
2. Use their alchemy table to craft as many potions as possible from those ingredients.
3. Sell the potions back to the alchemist, who should have a decent-sized pool of money from you buying their ingredients.
4. Move on to another alchemist and repeat.

The downside here is that it'll take some time to get to grips with the best recipes, but you will at least gain some great knowledge along the way. You can also use an alchemy calculator like this one to calculate the optimal potions from your current inventory, to help.

Stealing and Thieves Guild Quests:

The Thieves Guild, being what it is, can net you a fair bit of coin - but doing the main questline is also pretty time-consuming.

We've put together a guide on how to join Skyrim Guilds and factions, including the Thieves Guild, and after you've done so you can talk to either Vex, or Delvin Mallory to take on some repeatable random jobs, which involve stealing certain objects and returning to your quest-giver for a reward.

You can also normally clean up a fair bit of loot from each job through Pickpocketing and sneaking to find other items around the location. Stolen goods are only saleable to various fences, with a prominent one being located in the Honningbrew Meadery, south of Whiterun.

Finally, Pickpocket in general is a very useful skill to have for earning money. We've put together a guide for maxing Pickpocket and the other Thief skills, and generally once you've hit a decent level it's useable in almost any situation.

Almost every NPC in Skyrim, for instance, will have at least one item of value on their person - normally jewellery - and stealing one from each NPC you meet can very quickly net a small fortune in saleable stolen goods, which can also be enchanted for additional profit with the methods above.

Want more help with Skyrim? Find out how to join every guild and faction, how to earn Gold fast, learning about XP and levelling to 100, max Crafting skills, max Warrior skills, max Thief skills and max Mage skills, how to get married, where to buy a house, how to start Dawnguard, Hearthfire and Dragonborn DLC expansions. If you're on PC, we have a list of console commands and cheats, and you can learn about the remastered version and how to install mods with our Skyrim guide. Finally, with Switch owners, we have Skyrim amiibo support explained to help unlock special Zelda-themed items.

The Dark Brotherhood:

Finally, completing the Dark Brotherhood main questline will result in a whopping 20,000 Gold reward, plus any of the money you earned from each quest along the way.

At roughly 500 coins per side quest reward, with other items like, say, Muiri's Ring thrown in as bonuses too, the Dark Brotherhood can be extremely fruitful in terms of cash.

The downside is that it's time consuming, and requires sufficient combat and stealth prowess to pull off without accruing some very high bounties around Skyrim. If you're confident in your assassination skills though, and want to actually get stuck into playing the game whilst you earn your gold, this is the best way to do so.

You can find out how to join the Dark Brotherhood in our guide to joining each of Skyrim's Guilds and factions.