The Waterpark Simulator staff system combines ordinary operational jobs, specialist 1.0 roles, and rarer named workers commonly called star staff by players. This index explains what each verified role is for and marks uncertain community data instead of turning old wages or trait values into fixed facts.
Use the live hiring panel for price, salary, statistics, and availability. Those values are version-sensitive and candidate-specific. Use Staff Management for workload and assignment decisions.
Core staff role Dex
Ticket Master
- Type: entrance and ticket service
- Rarity: standard hire
- Source: hiring system; CayPlay’s public notes do not list the exact unlock gate
- Effect: serves the park’s ticket flow
- Best for: preventing the entrance from becoming the first queue bottleneck
- Validation: role is consistently documented by players; current wage and throughput are not fixed here
- Detail: Money and ticket flow
Cleaner
- Type: cleanliness operations
- Rarity: standard hire
- Source: hiring system
- Effect: responds to trash and dirty park conditions
- Best for: busy food zones, exits, and high-traffic paths
- Validation: role is established; exact range, speed, and salary require the live panel
- Detail: Staff management
Maintenance
- Type: repairs and upkeep
- Rarity: standard hire
- Source: hiring system
- Effect: handles eligible repair work and protects attraction uptime
- Best for: large parks where failures outpace manual response
- Validation: role and maintenance loop are established; exact task priority is not publicly documented
- Detail: Maintenance achievements
Lifeguard
- Type: water safety
- Rarity: standard hire
- Source: hiring system
- Effect: watches eligible pool or attraction areas and reacts to safety events
- Best for: open water zones with heavy guest traffic
- Validation: role is established; no public table lists coverage rules or response statistics
- Detail: Staff management
Restocker
- Type: supply logistics
- Rarity: standard hire
- Source: hiring system
- Effect: supports businesses that need inventory replenishment
- Best for: parks with several vendors or long service routes
- Validation: role is established; record the game version when comparing carrying and path behavior
- Detail: Money guide
Vendor
- Type: retail and food service
- Rarity: standard hire
- Source: hiring system
- Effect: operates an eligible staffed business
- Best for: converting guest demand into sales without the owner remaining at the counter
- Validation: role is established; the live workplace panel identifies compatible assignments
- Detail: Staff management
Security
- Type: safety and retaliation control
- Rarity: specialist 1.0 role
- Source: added for full release alongside Mafia and Saboteur systems
- Effect: protects operations from hostile or disruptive events
- Best for: parks using the Mafia questline or experiencing Saboteur pressure
- Validation: official 1.0 feature; exact detection radius and response rules require testing
- Detail: Mafia guide
Mascot
- Type: guest experience
- Rarity: specialist 1.0 role
- Source: added in the full release
- Effect: performs a park-facing guest role
- Best for: players expanding the experience side of a developed park
- Validation: official role; public notes do not provide the exact happiness effect, radius, or unlock
- Detail: Management hub
Star staff and named candidates
Pre-1.0 community guides list named candidates such as Caylus, Hugo, Travis, Patrik, Calum, and Sophia as star staff. More recent player discussions also mention Caylus, Dima, and Papa Hugo. The names are useful search anchors, but the available public material conflicts on the roster and on wages or statistics.
Treat a named worker’s live hiring card as the authority. Record the candidate name, role, rarity marker, traits, statistics, wage, game version, and difficulty before comparing. Do not assume two similarly named candidates are identical across localization or patches, and do not plan a park budget around an old screenshot.
This index deliberately leaves star-staff rarity tiers, exact effects, and appearance conditions unfilled until they can be checked inside 1.0.50. That is better than publishing a polished but wrong ranking.
Staff quitting rules in current patches
Staff quitting changed after launch. Version 1.0.43 fixed several quitting and notification issues. Version 1.0.48 then established two important controls:
- Staff should not quit on Easy or Sandbox difficulty.
- Accessibility settings can disable Staff Quitting entirely.
If an employee still quits under one of those conditions, record that the save is running public version 1.0.50, capture the difficulty and accessibility screen, and preserve the save before reporting it. On Normal or Hard without the accessibility toggle, quitting remains an intended management pressure rather than automatically a bug.
Do not assume salary is the only factor. Work assignment, reachable tasks, park conditions, and other live indicators matter. Read the employee panel and current notification instead of applying a universal threshold from an old guide.
Diagnose an idle employee
Use a controlled check:
- Confirm the staff member’s role matches the task.
- Confirm an eligible workplace or service area is open.
- Trace a walkable route without a locked door, missing floor, or unreachable object.
- Verify that the task actually exists and has not already been claimed by another worker.
- Inspect any assignment, area, supply, or shift setting visible in the current UI.
- Let the simulation run long enough for the worker to finish the current action.
- Reproduce once on the current 1.0.50 branch before moving or rehiring everyone.
For a Vendor or Ticket Master, check that the business is open and accessible. For a Restocker, check both the supply source and destination route. For a Cleaner or Maintenance worker, leave one known eligible task and observe the response. For a Lifeguard or Security worker, confirm that the relevant zone or event is active.
Hire for demand, not for a fixed ratio
There is no reliable official “one worker per X guests” table. Start with the actual queue, dirty area, repair backlog, empty stock, or uncovered safety zone. Hire or reassign one worker, then watch whether the backlog shrinks over a full operating period.
Separate route length from worker quality. A highly rated candidate can still look ineffective if placed across the park from the work. Place supply and service functions near their demand, keep paths simple, and avoid assigning one employee to incompatible corners.
Budget for the ongoing wage, not just the hiring moment. Easy mode officially reduces salaries relative to the classic balance, while Hard increases other operating pressure. Read the current candidate cost in the selected difficulty.
Staff answers
Which staff roles are confirmed?
The established operational roles are Ticket Master, Cleaner, Maintenance, Lifeguard, Restocker, and Vendor. Full release also officially added Security and Mascots.
Who is the best star staff member?
No current official stat table establishes a universal best candidate. Compare the live role, traits, statistics, and wage for your park’s actual bottleneck.
Can staff quit on Easy or Sandbox?
Version 1.0.48 says staff will not quit on Easy and Sandbox. Staff quitting can also be disabled in Accessibility settings.
Why does a staff member do nothing?
The common causes are a role mismatch, closed or incompatible workplace, unreachable path, missing supply, no eligible task, or assignment settings. Test one known task before calling it a bug.
Sources checked 2026-08-11: official Steam news hub, official store, and version-labeled Steam community guides and discussions. Community-only names are marked above.