How much did it cost to get into a vault

[Kaname]

Was just wondering how much did it really cost per person to say get into a vault 100,000 ? was basically anyone who got into a vault rich and stuff ???

I am quite curious and could you get in for free if you met certain requirments ?

[Kaname]

Anyone ?

[A1nutsauce]

I'm going to guess it was not cheap but wasn't really expensive that only rich people could afford.

[Kaname]

so could I get in for 15,000-50,000 as a downpayment since I heard alot of people pre ordered a spot but never payed due to bombs dropping or something and only paying like half or nothing.

[WickedRequiem]

Depends on the vault.
Remember, a lots of the vaults (well, the vast majority) were set up as "experiments". For example, the vault involving musicians and sub-audible sound waves.... the qualification for getting into that vault was being a recognized musician.

For vaults that were actually designed to save the "ruling class"... well, money probably wasn't enough. You probably needed political power and connection to get into those vaults.

[Brother Bigot]

I think it was 10000000 but it depended some would let people in for testing purposes. Which most did.

[hey]

I would asume there was a lot of ways to get into a vault. Have money, be a vetran, random chance, etc, etc.

[davion]

i would say just like durning the cuba missle crisis people could buy a whole bunch off diff vaults/bomb shelters depending on what one could afford. i would say that there was goverment vaults public vaults lotto or pay and luxury vaults for the rich and im sure the price varied greatly

[Bpigeon]

Some people would've payed for the private vaults, but others were selected for vaults, like the one that selected people on a pre-existing paranoia and put on opposing sides of the vault, I think that was vault 19 or 29 something like that. Most of the vaults were specifically designed for experiments, the Enclave were behind it all and since they were already hella rich I doubt they cared too much about the money.

[Pyrotrainthing]

Private Vaults would've costed a fortune.
A standard vault is probably free considering Vault-Tec would be a government company.

[Sonny]

You have to keep in mind that in the Fallout universe there was alot of inflation. $16,000 was considered cheap. A reservation in a Vault was less then the price of a brand new Corvega (a car brand in Fallout), which cost $200,000.

[Slavuta]

i read that the vaults where social experiments, one was plants, one was massive amount of weapons and no food, ect. one with nothing but virtual reality and feeding tubes...

so in theory it would be free for whoever applied for the space avaible?

[Grubt]

People were chosen to be part of Vault-Tec shady experiments. There may have been a few, if any vaults that people could pay for.

[glowpiPe]

It could be like a insurance i guess. You pay a small fee monthly because nothing ever happens right ?

So most of the time the insurance company get a lot of crap And you feel safe.

Except in fallout the bombs fell and the vaults had to be used. Just too bad it would have been better to stand in the blast radius than a vault tec vault

[Elentári]

I believe it was an insurance.
You paid a huge ammount of your income to reserve a place for as long as you pay.

Also they didn't take anyone.
There was a very strict selection.
Only those people who were in the proper condition to be turned into supermutants, raiders and plant food, were allowed to reserve a place.

[Ryker523]

It was probably expensive to an extent but not expensive to an unprecident degree. Probably was maybe 50-60% of your salary as an insurance type payment plan. It's hard to guess an exact amount as Fallout pre-war era had pre WWII Germany levels of inflation. You got paid with wheelbarrows full of cash and if you left it sitting outside, people would steal the wheelbarrow as it was more useful than the cash it held.