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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 867 gil, which places it 2nd of the 3 Lv 62 Miner fieldcraft leves that record gil. The best of them, Coral-lary, returns 974 gil for the same allowance, 12% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 707 gil to 974 gil per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 38%, so the wrong pick leaves 267 gil of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 64 Miner fieldcraft leve returns 1,314 gil per allowance, 35% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 60 rung behind tops out at 1,217 gil.
At Lv 62 this data holds 33 leves paying gil across 2 categories: the 9 Fieldcraft ones average 1,119 gil per allowance, the 24 Tradecraft ones 1,907 gil, which puts this leve 23% below its own category's average.
Onokoro, The Ruby Sea issues 13 leves in this dataset, Lv 62 through Lv 84, across 3 disciplines.