Lamar Davis is the first contact you meet in GTA Online, and his jobs are the first ones you play. The first two, Mall Or Nothing and Hold Up, are part of the first session of GTA Online: they run as you create your character and learn the basics, before the rest of the map opens up. Everything else in this group is a normal contact job that you can pick up at any time once you have the rank for it.
How to start
The two tutorial jobs start by themselves as part of the first session, so there is nothing to select. Hold Up arrives as Lamar’s invite once the tutorial is done. The later jobs unlock by rank, from rank 5 up to rank 30, and you launch them from Lamar’s text or from the job list in the Pause Menu. Most are for 1 or 2 players, and San Andreas Seoul, Ticket to Elysium and No Smoking take up to 4.
Money follows the usual contact-job rules: each job has a rank-based maximum payout that shrinks the longer you take, so a quick, clean run earns more than a slow one. The table below gives the top payout and RP for each job.
| Mission | Contact | Rank | Players | Top payout | RP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mall Or Nothing |  Lamar Davis | – | 1 to 2/8 | – | 1300 |
| Hold Up | Lamar Davis | – | 1 to 2 | – | – |
| Ballas to the Wall | Lamar Davis | 5 | 1 to 2 | $18,300 | 1200 |
| San Andreas Seoul | Lamar Davis | 16 | 1 to 4 | $18,960 | 1200 |
| Ticket to Elysium | Lamar Davis | 18 | 1 to 4 | $19,080 | 1810 |
| Going Down the GOH | Lamar Davis | 20 | 1 to 2 | $19,200 | 1340 |
| Caught Napping | Lamar Davis | 20 | 1 to 2 | $19,200 | 1450 |
| Lost MC RIP | Lamar Davis | 25 | 1 to 2 | $19,500 | 1565 |
| No Smoking | Lamar Davis | 30 | 1 to 4 | $19,800 | 1690 |
The tutorial jobs
Mall Or Nothing is a night race through Los Santos with Lamar as your rival. It teaches you the route markers, the respawn button and how catch-up works, so a lost lead is easy to win back. Pick a sedan you can corner well, since braking matters more than top speed.
Hold Up sends you to rob a convenience store. Turn off Passive Mode first, aim a handgun at the clerk until the register is emptied, then lose the police in a fast car.
Tips for the later jobs
Ballas to the Wall is a repo job at rank 5: you take a purple Schafter from a Ballas member and deliver it to the dealership, so bring armor and a fast car of your own. Caught Napping and Going Down the GOH are rank 20 jobs for 1 or 2 players. Lost MC RIP follows at rank 25, and No Smoking at rank 30 is the last in the group.
Caught Napping involves a long drive across the city and out along the coast, so keep your car in good shape before you set off.
For every job here, read the objectives before you start, pick a car with good grip, and keep body armor topped up. For ranks and payout rules in general see payouts and RP.