All Career Cheats in The Sims 4

Every Sims 4 career cheat follows the same pattern: open the cheat console, type testingcheats true, then enter careers.promote [careerID] or careers.demote [careerID] for your Sim’s job. This works for all 30+ full-time careers and 10+ part-time jobs. The full reference tables below cover every career ID you need, plus mod-based alternatives for branch selection and performance control.

One thing worth knowing upfront: the career ID in the cheat code doesn’t always match the in-game job name. The Politician career uses activist, the Gardener uses adult_gardener, and the Scientist needs adult_active_scientist. Getting that ID wrong means the cheat simply won’t fire — no error, just nothing happens. That’s what this guide prevents.

How to Open the Cheat Console on Every Platform

Before any career cheat works, you need to enable cheats for the session. The console shortcut differs by platform:

• PC (Windows): Ctrl + Shift + C
• Mac: Ctrl + Shift + C
• PlayStation 4 / PS5: Hold L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 simultaneously
• Xbox One / Xbox Series: Hold LB + LT + RB + RT simultaneously

Once the console opens, type testingcheats true and press Enter. You’ll see a confirmation message. Make sure your target Sim is selected before entering any career code — the cheat applies to the active Sim only.

Also worth knowing: bb.ignoregameplayunlocksentitlement unlocks every career-locked Build Mode item and furniture piece in one go. You don’t need to be in any specific career for this to work. It’s one of the more underused codes because people focus on promotions and forget about the locked desk sets, medical equipment, and detective boards sitting in the catalog.

The Quick Career Cheat Reference You’ll Actually Use

Most players need the same handful of codes repeatedly. Here are the five most-used career cheats, formatted exactly as you type them into the console:

The promote cheat stacks — run it multiple times to jump several levels quickly. Each execution moves the Sim up exactly one level, so five runs gets you five promotions. No cooldown, no side effects on relationships or skills.

Full-Time Career Cheats by Job Type

These cover every base game and expansion pack full-time career as of April 2026. The ID column is what you paste after careers.promote or careers.demote. Pay close attention to careers with underscores or the careers_adult_ prefix — those are the ones that trip people up.

A few edge cases to flag: the Politics career uses activist, not politics — that’s a common reason the cheat doesn’t work. The Undertaker uses mortician. And the Freelancer code is notably long; even one typo breaks it entirely, so copy-paste is strongly recommended there.

Part-Time Career Cheats

Part-time jobs use the parttime_ prefix consistently, which actually makes them easier to remember than full-time careers. All ten current part-time jobs are covered below.

Part-time careers have fewer levels than full-time ones, so the promote cheat hits a ceiling faster. If the code stops working after a few runs, your Sim has likely reached the top level — that’s not a bug, just the natural cap.

Promote, Demote, and Branch Selection: What Each Cheat Actually Does

Understanding the mechanics behind these codes saves a lot of frustration — especially when careers split into branches.

careers.promote moves the Sim up one level in their current career track. When a career has a branch point (Criminal splits into Boss vs. Oracle; Secret Agent into Villain vs. Diamond Agent), the cheat will advance through whichever branch the Sim is currently on. If they haven’t chosen a branch yet and are at the split level, the promote cheat pushes them to branch selection — it doesn’t pick for them.

careers.demote does the reverse. Run it enough times and you can push a Sim back to before branch selection, effectively resetting the choice. Handy if you promoted through the wrong branch and want to redirect.

Here’s something the basic cheat console can’t do: directly set a specific level. You can only move one step at a time. For careers with 10 levels, that’s 10 separate commands. That’s exactly where the mod options below become worth the install.

Mod-Based Career Cheats: UI Cheats Extension and MC Command Center

These two mods give you granular control that console codes simply can’t match. Both are script mods, so first confirm that Script Mods Allowed is checked under Game Options → Other. If that box is unchecked, neither mod will function at all — no error message, they’ll just silently not work.

UI Cheats Extension: Right-Click Career Control

Once installed, UI Cheats Extension turns the Jobs panel into a full career editor. Open the Jobs tab in the bottom-right panel while your Sim is employed, then right-click the green career title bar. A context menu appears with these options:

• Promote — same as the console cheat, but faster
• Demote — step down one level
• Promote to Max Level — skips straight to the top of the current branch in one click
• Demote to Before Branch Selection — resets branch choice without losing the career entirely
• Promote to Branch Selection — jumps directly to the split point
• Change Career Branch — switches between available branches without needing to demote first
• Pick Specific Level — sets any exact level directly

The performance bar is also interactive. Right-click it and you can drag work performance to whatever value you want — maxing it out essentially queues the Sim’s next promotion for their next shift. That’s useful when you want the raise to happen naturally in-game without the cheat feeling too instant.

Real talk: “Promote to Max Level” alone makes this mod worth installing if you’re frequently setting up legacy households or challenge saves where every Sim needs a specific career level quickly.

MC Command Center: Vacation Days and Beyond

MC Command Center takes a different approach. To access career cheats, click your Sim → click the MC Command Center icon (the Deadpool-style icon) → MC Cheats → Cheat Sim Info → Career Cheats.

From that menu you can promote, demote, or immediately quit the career. But the option that sets MCCC apart is vacation day manipulation — you can assign up to 99 vacation days, effectively letting a Sim collect their salary indefinitely without ever going to work. For players running wealth-focused or story-driven playthroughs, that’s a fundamentally different kind of cheat than anything the console offers.

MCCC also affects NPC careers across the whole save — you can promote townies and NPCs through the same menu, not just your active household. That matters for players who use Sims 4 as a story tool and need supporting characters at specific career levels.

For most players, the console codes in the tables above cover everything needed. But if you’re managing large households, running story saves with specific career requirements, or just want to skip 10 levels in one click rather than ten — installing UI Cheats Extension changes the experience considerably. It’s the single mod that makes career management genuinely frictionless.