We can make the assumption that superheroes working for the GDA are paid and compensated in some way, especially since Mark needs to get a new job after patting ways with them in Season 3. It’s made me wonder what Mark’s paycheck actually looked like, and if it was any different than other Guardians members like Robot, Rex, Samson etc. I also wonder if companies like Invincible Inc. Could employ superheroes, and if those rates might be different than the GDAs.
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I don’t think the suggestion is that the Guardian members are getting paid, it’s that they’re having their expenses handled – like housing, food, medical care, training resources, etc – but not like ‘a salary’ per se. That seems reenforced by the fact that when the Guardians falls apart and several members leave the worlds premiere superhero team, they’re all immediately looking for jobs or living in relatively low-rent apartments because they have no significant financial resources of their own.
Edit: Swapped GDA for Guardians. Standard GDA employees (like the techs, doctors, analysts) that we regularly see working at the Pentagon probably pull fairly standard federal job salaries and benefits, but nothing extraordinary.
It seems less "we pay you X a month" and more "we take care of your living expenses". They live in the guardians compound and are provided what they need to keep going. These heroes aren’t doing it for the paycheck, they do it because they think it’s right.
They are more like volunteers peacekeepers than working employees of the GDA. Most of their expenses like housing, training, medical and equipment are provided by the GDA as benefit.