our Labor Advisor assigns plebs to various sectors of your city's economy. As long as you have enough workers to fill all of the city's open jobs, the Labor Advisor doesn't need any instructions from you. In times of labor shortage, though, you can use this panel to tell your Labor Advisor which jobs he should fill first. Your city's labor force is split up into several categories. These are shown, along with the number of workers currently assigned, and the number needed to operate at full capacity. At the bottom you can also see how many total workers are available. Unless you tell him otherwise, the Labor Advisor assigns workers as he deems best. That won't always suit your priorities, especially if you have just received some requests from the Emperor or news of impending attack. You might find that your city is better off when some areas are working at full capacity, even if it means that other areas might barely function at all.

To change the priority of a category, click on the category name, and a small panel appears showing priority levels ranked from 1 to 9. Click on the number 1 to make it top priority, 2 to make it second priority, and so on. You cannot select third choice, say, unless you have already chosen a first and second choice. If you chose Engineering as your top priority, for example, you would see that Engineering now has a padlock symbol and the number 1 in front of it, showing that it is locked in as your first priority. Your Labor Advisor will always assign workers to your priorities in order, before assigning anyone left to the categories you have not given priorities as he thinks best.

To remove a category from the priority list, click on it and choose “No priority” from the priority panel.

Your Labor Advisor's other main responsibility is paying all of the city's workers. You will always start out paying the same wage as is offered in Rome, but you can instruct your Labor Advisor to change this by clicking on the arrow buttons next to the display of the current wage.

As you would expect, the Labor Advisor keeps track of how many plebs are employed and unemployed, what your city's unemployment rate is, and how much your annual cost for labor will be.