I don't wanna open a new thread for this, but:
Are members of X-Force, X-Factor and Excalibur to be considered proper and legit "X-Men" working into independent cells/teams, but always "X-Men" anyway?
Wolverine did say that the Avengers pay more than the X-men.
PLus they have some of wealthiest people on earth on their team, with Tony "i'm literally made of money" Stark at the top.
Most Xmen are...well let's say on the proletarian side of the things, with oddly one crazy wealth mement for each generation
No really...each incarnation of X-men for long time had at least on multi millionaire in the team, one with obvious visible mutation, a psionic one, an energy eruptor one, and one with weird power and/or elemental powers. ALWAYS.
After 2000 it changed a bit...but mostly because millionaire don't gorw on tree...and oddly when Xavier was not around to run things...one could suspect he did not choose X-men randomly
here a rough list of rich x-men in no particular order just to give an idea:
Warren Worthington III Angel
Banshee(family fortune, inherited a goddamned castle)
Sunfire(Shiro too is rich, we tend to forget it)
Pretty sure Logan too is indipendently wealth, but is anybody guess
Psylocke much like her brother are very wealthy. The Braddock never had to worry about money
Monet(of course, and she is one of the classiest)
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Emma Frost
Storm income is a mistery since the marriage with Black Panther
There are a couple of factors at work that are never stated.
1-With it being a private school it is very much likely a non-profit organization. It takes donations from wealthy people and turns that into revenue for the school.
2-Being labeled an educational institution they can also get state and federal grants for such things as books, equipment, staff etc.
3-Xavier being rich I am sure the family fortune has been invested time and again which is where and how much of the money is kept going.
4-Much of the staff at the school are X-men so they fall under paid staff. Likewise with them living at the school, they aren't having to pay for housing and I would say much of their income might even be rolled back into the school as donations.
So there are several factors going into the "real world" workings of the school.
1-Donations
2-Local/Federal Grants
3-Investments
So many of them are a mystery. We know that Angel was the only rich one of the O5, but it quickly gets weird. How much money does Ilyanna have access to? Is there gold in Limbo? She owns *the entire dimension,* after all. Can Amara call up funds as a daughter of a Nova Roman senator, or is that even a thing anymore? Even if not, can she just wave her hand and bring molten gold bubbling to the surface of the earth?